SportsWriter.org.uk brings you our inaugural sportswriting competition, with cash prizes up for grabs while also raising money for Cyclists Fighting Cancer.

Cyclists Fighting CancerWe are seeking sportswriters with the ability to produce exciting, original sports-related writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose. We will donate 1.00 from each entry to Cyclists Fighting Cancer, who are a fantastic charity whose aim is to provide bikes, adapted tricycles and equipment to children and young people whose lives have been affected by cancer. The modest 3.00 entry fee is required both to cover the costs of the prizes and to raise some much-needed funds for this years chosen good cause. Check out their website here, on which you can find details of how their bikes have helped loads of young people and also read about what caused the charitys founder, Mike Grisenthwaite to start it in the first place.

The contest is open to entrants of 18 years and older. You may write about any sport, in any style, whether match reports of your favourite football match, an intricate analysis of the techniques involved in ice hockey, or why kabaddi is more fun than curling. The choice is yours. Please refrain from anything that could be deemed libellous (we cant afford the legal fees if we get sued by a Premier League footballer, for instance), but feel free to vent your spleen if that is what floats your kayak.