Gear Up and Play is hosting a travel writing contest until August 31 and will give away $200 to the chosen winner.

Here's the article submission guidelines from Gear Up and play website.

*All article submissions must be unique (original) and written by you the author, nothing already published!
*Our normal 300 word minimum applies.
*Only submit 1 post into the contest, you are free to write more as usual but only one entry per author.
*If you decide to include a promotional link only 1 is allowed and should appear at the end of the article. Example of what is allowed: John Smith currently blogs about his travel adventures at Extreme Adventure Blog
*Articles must be sent for publishing approval between the dates of August 1st and August 31st.
*Topics: Your post should cover some form of Adventure Travel / Travel Experience. For a complete look at what this means and what sort of content we are looking for read this post: What is Adventure Travel? This post not only conveys what Adventure Travel is but goes on to tell how you can write about it. At the end of the post you will find links to examples that strongly convey what we want. In any event, your post should be a personal account of something you did while traveling and not promotional in any way.
*Include at least 1 photo inside the body of your article please. This photo will represent your post in the voting gallery.

Click here for more information about the contest.


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