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12TH INTERNATIONAL CVCE PHOTO CONTEST

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Application Deadline: March 31, 2026.

LOCATION: Spain

CVCEPHOTO is the International Mountain Activity Photo Contest organized by Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea, a mountaineering club from San Sebastian. The participants authorize CVCEPHOTO the rights to the reproduction of the submitted works for expositions, catalog printings, web publishing, and any other media outlet that the CVCE considers to be of interest to promote the contest.

ELIGIBILITY:

The contest is open to all amateur or professional photographers around the world. Participation is free. It’s understood that underage participants have parent or tutor authorization to participate. If they should win the contest, such authorization will be required.

Categories: “MOUNTAIN ACTIVITY”: Any image related to sport activities (non-motorized) that take place on mountains. (For instance: alpinism, climbing, ski, trekking, speleology, paragliding …)

Each participant may submit a maximum of 3 photographs. There won’t be accepted any photos previously submitted to this contest. Only pictures taken by digital cameras are accepted.

The RAW digital format of the submitted images must be available. Participants must warrant that the submitted photographs are an original work created solely by the entrant and that he or she owns the copyright of the work that is being presented.

CVCEPHOTO takes as granted that the participant has the authorization and/or the permission of the persons that appear in the photographs submitted to the contest.

Works must be submitted in JPEG format and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide, converted to sRGB color space with the profile being embedded in the file. All digital images must be 2 megabytes or smaller. Works must not include frames or footers. Works must be submitted exclusively through the ENTRY FORM.

CVCEPHOTO will contact participants through the email they provide in this entry form.

BENEFIT:

CVCEPHOTO Grand Prize: €1,500 + Exclusive and unique trophy created by Iñigo Arístegui, artist.

“BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia Poster” Prize: € 800 and BBK MENDI FILM Poster.

“EITB Prize”: €800. – “EMF Prize”: €800

”Special Jury Prize”: €500

17 Honorable mentions: DIPLOMAS.

All the cash prizes will be subject to the corresponding retention according to the law.

CVCEPHOTO will contact you by email: info@CVCEPHOTO.com o cvcephoto@gmail.com.

Please make sure you include it in your email list in order to avoid communications being blocked by anti-spam or security systems.

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CALL FOR APILA’S FIRST PRINTING AWARD 2026

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Application Deadline: 15/02/2026

LOCATION: Spain

The publishing house Apila Ediciones, in collaboration with the School of Design of Aragón and with the support of the Zaragoza City Council, announces the Apila’s First Impression Award 2026, the fourteenth edition of an International Illustrated Children’s Book competition aimed at strengthening graphic and literary creation by supporting illustrators who have not yet published any books.

ELIGIBILITY:

All illustrators who wish to participate, of any nationality, over 18 years old, may enter this award without any limitation on the number of projects. A necessary condition for participation is not having any published children’s books with an ISBN until June 30, 2025. However, those who have one or more self-published books with an ISBN may participate, provided that these books were not published through a publishing house or editorial services company. In cases where the project is a collaboration (text by one person and illustrations by another), the condition of not having any published books applies exclusively to the illustrator. Additionally, the rights to the submitted works must be free of commitments to third parties.

The works submitted, written in Spanish or English, may be original or adaptations of stories free of copyright.

The award will be granted to one project only.

The projects may have any format but may not exceed 40 pages (20 double pages), including legal pages (credits page and title page) and flyleaves. The cover: the front cover, spine and back cover are not included in the 40 pages of the book.

BENEFIT:

The award will consist of the signing of a professional contract with Apila Ediciones for the publication of the selected work, which will include the payment to the author(s) of €4,000, equivalent to 10% of the value of the first print run of the book, as well as the dissemination and international distribution of the book.

In the event that the rights of the project are shared between the writer and illustrator, the percentage of 10% will be divided between them according to the prior agreement reached by both.

The winning author or authors shall, in said contract, transfer the rights of the book to Apila for publication and for the international management of those rights for a period of twelve years.

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