Last year we had the Ringing Singing Tree, in 2023 Blackpool Tower and in 2022 Lancaster Castle, so please avoid those three. Other pictures of Blackpool or Lancaster are welcome. A few of the runners up in 2023 provided pictures of other aspects of Lancastrian life, such as the shoreline at Lytham so something like that might also be interesting.
The winning illustration will be used on our cover and the
winner will receive £50.00.
Guidelines:
1. Please make your illustration landscape with the focal point on the right hand half of the picture. See examples here. Note, we are showing these as they would look with a spine. You don't need to worry about the spine. Just provide the landscape-shaped picture. 2. Bear in mind this is to make a book cover.
There must be room on the right-hand side for us to print our title and
subtitle. The backgrounds on the left hand side, which will form the back cover,
must have an area where we can print a blurb.
For instance, an area of pathing, grass or sky. Look at a few books in your favourite book
shop to get an idea. We do find that covers work better if the picture wraps
around the whole book. 3. Be careful with blue. If you have large areas of blue, sea or sky
for instance, you may have to accept that it may look a little different on the
printed book cover. Bright blues (ultramarine) will be replaced by either cyan,
magenta or grey.
Rules:
- Entries must be received by 23:59 BST on 30 June
2025
- Please do not include your name on your photo.
Label your file by location and the date the photo was taken or the illustration was produced e.g. LythamShore240617.
- Please provide a copy of your illustration as jpg file
emailed to editor@bridgehousepublishing.co.uk
. In the subject line put PhotoCompetition
and the name of your file. In the body of the email repeat your photo name and provide
contact details – name, phone number and email. If your picture is too big to email, please use a file-sharing system such as We Transfer.
- Illustrations should be devoid of identifiable people unless you can confirm that the people in the illustration have your permission to include them and understand the purpose of the photo.
- By entering the competition you are agreeing
that your illustration may be used by Chapeltown and the LAA for the book cover and for promotional activities to do with
the book. The copyright remains with you and you may use the illustration in any other
way you wish.
- You are also agreeing to provide a picture with a minimum size of 3600 pixels wide by 2700 pixels
high that we can use for printing should you win
the competition.
- Entry to the competition is free of charge.
- Entry is open to anyone anywhere as long as the illustration is of somewhere within the Lancashire Palatine.
- Entry to the competition is limited to one per
person.
Time line
- Entries received by 23.59 BST 30 June 2025
- Chapeltown will short-list the entries. All
photos that will work without too much manipulation will be short-listed by 7
July 2025.
- Members of the LAA will be asked to vote for their
favourite photo. The vote will close on
14 July 2025.
- Should there be a tie, the LAA Committee will
vote on the tied entries by 21 July 2025.
- If there still is a tie, Chairman Judith Addison
will make the casting vote by 25 July 2025.
