Free Writing Competitions Online: Win Money with Recipes

HubPages are running a recipe writing competition.

The Money prizes are well worth trying to win!

There are sixty two cash prizes with a total of $3,600

• $300 cash prize for the best overall recipe
• $100 cash prize for the best dessert recipe
• $100 cash prize for the best drink recipe
• $100 cash prize for the best family meal recipe
• $100 cash prize for the best healthy recipe
• $100 cash prize for the best budget-friendly recipe

Also each recipe or recipes you publish on a given day will be entered into a lucky draw.

Your chance to win money just for entering a recipe article

One recipe hub will be drawn randomly and win a $50 cash prize too.

Competition Entry Rules

• Be a member of the writing site HubPages.
• The article, or as we at HubPages call it the Hub, must be at least five hundred words.
• At least one photo
• Article must be your own original work
• Not to be already published anywhere else online
• Competition entry opening and closing date: June 1st at noon (US PT) to June 29th at 11:59 am
• Use the Ratings Capsule.

Ratings Capsule explained: This is easy to insert when in edit mode writing your recipe. One click and it is done. This enable readers to Rate your recipe from one to five stars. Google search engine shows this as well so it is all good.

Judging of recipe competition

The random draws will take place everyday with one winner receiving a cash prize of $50. Once you adhere to the competition rules you are entered into this draw automatically every day when you publish a recipe on that given day.

Outside judges who are experts will be the judges for the recipe hubs. They will pick winners for the seven weekly best recipes will cash prizes of $50 each. They will also choose the best in each of the five categories with prizes of $100 each. Then there is the overall winning recipe which will receive a $300 cash prize.

Join the free writing site HubPages here!

I read a comment on the HubPages Blog about the competition where a male writer was asking for other subjects to write in future competitions.

He said he was only new to the writing site and could not cook so felt like he was losing out.

To him and all male or indeed female writers who can not cook then there is a way to enter too.

Get your partner, wife, husband parents etc who can cook to allow you to take photos of them preparing and cooking a meal etc.

You do not have to take them in the photos, as I know a lot of people are shy.

If you look at all the recipes I have published you will see it is the food that is photographed rather than the person cooking.

Ask them for the recipe facts and then you can go and write that winning recipe article for the competition.

HubPages holds free writing competitions every two months with a variety of subjects.

This one in June just happens to be recipes.

To enter this free writing competition to win money as prizes join HubPages here

Would you like to make money writing articles, short stories and poetry online?

You could be working from home online on the writing site HubPages.

In this article I show you how to join the writing site and explain how to open a Google AdSense Account. Then you too can earn money writing online.

Join Hubpages free and set up an account with Google Adsense.

Once this is done then you can start to write your articles, poetry and short stories online and earn money from your writing.

If you need a little help with what to write about read below

Write about your passion or hobby in short three hundred word articles and get paid from Google Adsense.



1. If you are good at explaining how things work then write it down in an article and earn money online.
2. Do you have a particular interest that you know lots about? Computers, dogs, recipes, gardening, household do-it-yourself, celebrities etc, the list is endless.
3. Join a writing site for free, HubPages for instance and write about what you know. Share your knowledge and earn money online.
4. The articles do not have to be too long. In fact most people looking for an answer on the internet do not have the time to read a long winded article on how to change a fuse, grow tomatoes or draw a tree etc.
5. What they would like is a short written explanation or answer and lots of photos and videos that gives them what they are looking for.
6. These photos can be uploaded from plenty of free photo sites on the internet. I would recommend where possible to take your own photos that would go with the article.
7. If you are writing about how to grow tomatoes in a container and you can show that you have in fact done this successfully yourself you will keep the reader on your page.
8. By uploading your own photos the reader will believe you know exactlly what you are talking about by seeing the successful outcome for themselves by looking at your photos.

Why not have a go and write an article today. You could start to earn money from writing now!

Then publish them online, get lots of readers all over the world to read and comment on your writing and earn money too.

On this writing site you can publish an article, short story or poem. It has to be at least three hundred words but can be as long as you like. Once you have opened a free account on this writing site HubPages, then you can publish your writing online and earn money too.

You can include links, photos, videos, and all the text you like. The software is easy to use and all free. This article you are reading now is published on HubPages. I first wrote the text and then uploaded it onto my account. I was able to add photos, links and You Tube Writing Tutorials here too.

It did take a while to complete. But most worthwhile things do. Now that it is here on HubPages it is earning me money.

Set up an account with Google AdSense.

How you make money from your writing online with a Google AdSense Account. This is free to do and quite easy. Once you have set up the Google AdSense account you only have to enter your Google adsense affiliate number once on the space provided by HubPages and you are ready to earn money online.

Now you can earn money from the advertisements that are on the page where you have written the article, poem or short story. With Google AdSense ads the reader just has to click on one of the many advertisements they see on the article page and if they do you earn cash.

You do not have to get the reader to buy anything from these Google Adsense ads. Once they click on them then you have done your job and you earn money from Google for getting the readers there.

Making money online selling Amazon products is slightly different.



Once you have applied for and been accepted for an Amazon account you only have to enter your Amazon account affiliate number once on the space provided by HubPages and you are ready to earn money online.

You add the Amazon products you believe your readers may be interested in. You get a commission if the reader buys this product.

If you have written an article, or as HubPages members call it a Hub, about growing tomatoes in a container then you upload appropriate products on your page. This could be a selection of gardening books. Or a selection of gardening tools, gardening pots or seeds.

Amazon have a huge amount of products for you to advertise on your article page. If someone is reading your article then they would be interested in these targeted adverts too. Amazon does all the paperwork.

They receive payment and ship to the customer; all you have to do is receive all the commissions from the Amazon products that you have sold online. As with everything on HubPages this is an easy process to complete.

Social interaction with other writers on HubPages

HubPages also provides ways for writers to enjoy social interaction with other writers online who want to earn money from their articles. There are help forums for all those little things that you have a problem with while publishing your article online.

There are also Educational forums where more experienced writers online give advice and constructive criticism if asked. You can read other articles, become friends with other members and leave comments about their articles too.

Competitions with cash prizes for writers on HubPages

Every three months HubPages creates a writing competition for all HubPages members. They pick a topic and the competition lasts for the month. There are daily and weekly cash prizes. And one main writing competition cash prize of $500.

Even if you do not win a prize with your articles then you benefit from the massively increased exposure and get lots more readers.

There are over 100,000 published writers using the writing site HubPages.

And there are 21 million readers of hubpages articles every month! This writing site has high credibility with search engines Google and Yahoo so your articles will get indexed quicker.

That means more readers for your articles online and more money for you to earn by writing articles online with HubPages.

If you want to write online for money then click here and join the HubPages writing site for free.

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