The Scottish Nature Photography Awards celebrate nature, wildlife and landscape photography in Scotland.

The Scottish Nature Photography Awards Photographic Competition 2015 is now open to professional and amateur photographers from around the world, but images must be taken in Scotland.

Entries close 24:00 hours GMT on Monday 30th November 2015.

This is the 6th annual competition to seek the Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year. The categories are:

Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year 2015

• Scottish Wildlife Portrait
• Scottish Wildlife Behaviour
• Scottish Landscape - Sea & Coast
• Scottish Landscape - The Land
• Scottish Landscape - Urban Greenspace
• Scottish Botanical
• Natural Abstract
• Environmental

Would you pay to be in an anthology?

by guest blogger Elspeth Rushbrook

With many writing competitions expecting an entry fee of £2-10 [$4-20] (pay into your own prize pot), it’s gladdening to see one which is free. And which offers a £1000 prize, the largest they claim in the United Kingdom without an entry fee (there are open prizes up to £5000 which do carry a fee, such as Bridport and Cardiff, both open internationally).

United Press run poetry competitions all year with £100-£200 prizes, all without charge (their prose prizes do carry an entry fee). They also offer publishing services from their Admail London address - that in itself alarmed me, that they conceal their real address.

The National Poetry Anthology sounds attractive, like it’s respected and read and stocked all over the country. (You do have to be from the UK to enter). All good bookshops will have it, United Press claim, who run the open comp for its content.

But the rules say that by entering, you automatically allow them to print your work in the anthology if you are chosen. Fine, except for a point I’ll soon come to.

And then, there’s the other book.

 Read letters artists have already submitted via a notice posted by the Illustrators' Partnership of America (found near the end of their notice).

Comments are due on or before THURSDAY: July 23, 2015

Everyone, US or not, can submit their letters online here.

(Note: If you are a non-U.S. citizen, be sure to click the "state" dropdown field in the online form, scroll to the bottom and select "Non-U.S.A. Location ". If you continue to have trouble, email: Catherine Rowland, )

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