Final call for travel writers

There is still time to enter the Independent Student Travel Competition, which we are running in conjunction with Trailfinders and Rough Guides. To be eligible, you must have been in full-time education until the end of the 1992-93 academic year. The winner will receive a return ticket for pounds 600 to South-east Asia, Africa or South America, plus pounds 500, 10 Rough Guides and a commission from the company; the Independent will publish the entry. Second prize is a return ticket for pounds 400 to North America and five Rough Guides. Three runners-up will each win five Rough Guides and one Eurotrain ticket.

In no more than 500 words, evoke your impressions of a great city. Type in double spacing, include your name, age, address and telephone number/s on the title page, and send to: Travel Writing Competition, Weekend, The Independent, 40 City Road, London EC1Y 2DB, by 30 November 1993. Winners will be announced in February 1994. No entries will be returned and no correspondence entered into. The Independent will retain copyright to published entries. The competition is not open to employees of Newspaper Publishing or their families.