Fred’s Blog 4th Annual Travel Stories Competition

Fred’s Blog 4th Annual Travel Stories Competition is now open for entries and will run until July 31st 2018.

Robert Fear is the memoirist behind Fred’s Blog as was featured in an Author Interview last year, which covered Robert’s self-publishing journey for Fred’s Diary 1981. As well as travel writing he runs a successful travel writing competition that is now in it’s 4th year. There are monthly prizes as well as overall prizes and it’s FREE TO ENTER … so what are you waiting for?

5 Monthly Prizes

There will be five monthly prizes of $50 (£35) for the best stories:

February/March
April
May
June
July

3 Overall Prizes

Overall prizes will be awarded to the Top 3 stories as decided by a panel of independent judges. Prizes this year have been doubled and will be:

1st – $300 (£210),
2nd – $200 (£140)
3rd – $100 (£70).

How to Enter

Entering is straight forward and free of charge.

Send your travel related entry of 500-1000 words along with a short bio and photo to:

fd81@assl.co.uk

Entrants are restricted to one entry for each monthly competition.

Photos or pictures to accompany your stories are welcome.

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If selected, your story will also appear in the 2019 Edition of Travel Stories and Highlights.

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About Robert Fear the competition host:

Born in Leicester in 1955, Robert’s family moved to Surrey when he was 11. He was educated at Reigate Grammar School. After this he worked in a bank in the city for several years before getting the travel bug. Fred, a nickname he got at school, stuck throughout his travels and has remained with him to this day. His travels took him to Ibiza for the summer of 1977, hitch-hiking around Europe in 1978 and the USA and Canada in 1979. During this time he also settled and worked in Germany. Fred’s Diary 1981was written during the 158 days he spent travelling around Asia.

These days Robert is happily settled in Eastbourne, East Sussex where he lives with his wife and three cats. He works as a software consultant and has been able to combine work with some travel during the past fifteen years, having visited countries as far apart as Australia, Singapore, Ghana and Suriname.