Writing on the Wall and Liverpool’s Mental Health Consortium are delighted to announce that the ‘Mental Health and Me’ writing competition is back for its second year!
As part of Liverpool’s World Mental Health Day celebrations on Saturday 10th October 2015, we are inviting you to send us an original response to the expression ‘Mental Health and Me’. Last year’s competition was one of the highlights of the World Mental Health Day programme and attracted a wide selection of creative work across 6 categories - poem, short story, diary piece or blog post, letter, piece of journalism, tweet. This year, we’re adding a brand new category - SPOKEN WORD - which we hope will appeal to the creative flair of even more people.
We would encourage entries from anyone with an interest in mental health & wellbeing - If mental distress has affected you or someone close to you; if you have experience as a carer or a professional; or if you have a particular interest in the subject of mental health for any reason, we want to hear from you. Critical voices are also welcome!
This year’s competition is open to anyone living within Merseyside (Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral, St Helens) and to all age groups.
'I am incredibly lucky to be at a stage in my recovery where I can use my experience to help others, and my entry for ‘Mental Health and Me’ was an honest insight into depression and its side effects. It was an eye opening experience to read other peoples work and see how mental illness has such a wide spread effect and how many lives it effects. My entry led to an article in the Liverpool Echo, but more importantly it gave me the chance to talk about something that had previously been kept quiet.' - Gemma Rogers, Winner of 2014's Mental Health and Me
(DEADLINE: 14th September)
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