Photography and Writing Competition

Competitions Extended – Great Prizes up for Grabs!

Now in their second year, the annual MS Australia - ACT/NSW/VIC Photography and Creative Writing Competitions are on again to challenge and celebrate your creativity.

Now with great prizes on offer, we're also giving this year's competitions a theme – 'Crossing Boundaries'. With so many ways to interpret this theme, we're eager to view your entries and reward the most captivating and creative.

Picture Perfect

Enter this year’s Photography Competition for your chance to win an ultra-zoom digital camera from Samsung valued at more than $500!

Designed to deliver better images through innovative technology and advanced features, the Samsung WB500 digital camera features a 10x optical zoom, a 24mm ultra-wide lens, is equipped with 10.2 mega pixels, a 2.7-inch LCD screen for easy editing, and also records high definition film. From panoramic landscape shots to your family happy snaps, add this to your arsenal of photographic tools to capture high quality images anytime, anywhere.

Following this year’s theme of ‘Crossing Boundaries’, photographers may enter one photograph into the following categories: Portrait, Landscape, Travel and Action. Only hard copies will be received and should be no smaller than 6” x 4” and no larger than 12” x 18”.

The winners of each category will be featured in the Autumn 2010 edition of Intouch and on our website, and the overall winner will receive the grand prize from Samsung, valued at $529.

For more information on Samsung’s great product range visit www.samsung.com.au.

Words of Wisdom

The winners of this year’s Creative Writing Competition will score themselves a fantastic prize pack from
Borders Books.

Using the theme of ‘Crossing Boundaries’, enter your writing piece into one of the following categories: Poetry, Historical or Social Research, Short Stories (fiction), or Short Stories (non-fiction). Submissions must be no longer than 1,000 words.

Prizes will be awarded to each category winner, and the overall winner. The category prize pack, valued at $100, includes a copy of two new-release books, Seasons by Donna Hay and MasterClass by the judges and contestants on MasterChef, plus your choice of one of over 100 of Australia’s favourite Penguin classic novels.

The major prize pack, valued at $200, includes the same great titles as the category pack, plus the winner’s choice of 11 Penguin classic novels.

The entry chosen as the overall prize winner will be published in Intouch, and the best three entries of each category will be placed on the MS Australia – ACT/NSW/VIC website.

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The Photography and Creative Writing Competitions are open to people with MS and have been extended until 30 January 2010. Entries are limited to one per person, per category and should be sent to:

Fern Linden
MS Australia – ACT/NSW/VIC
PO Box 210
Lidcombe NSW 1825

For more information, conditions of entry and submission requirements, contact Fern on (02) 9646 0600 or
email flinden@mssociety.com.au.