COMPETITION CLOSING DATE: 5pm, Monday, 14th September 2015
WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT AND CELEBRATORY EVENT: Thursday 8th October 2015
VENUE: Liverpool Central Library, The Discovery Room
TIME: 6pm – 8pm
Rapper, Singer-Songwriter, Stephen Manderson Aka Professor Green will be making an exclusive appearance in Liverpool on Thursday 8th October at Liverpool’s Central Library to announce the winners of the Mental Health and Me competition on 8th October 2015 as part of the World Mental Health Day celebrations running through the week. Professor Green is a proud patron of male prevention suicide charity, CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). With the death of his father in 2010 as well as his own personal battles with depression and anxiety, preventing male suicide and encouraging young men to open up about their mental health issues is a cause close to his heart. Professor Green has talked about his own demons and his father’s suicide in several of his songs including Lullaby, Goodnight and Read All About It.
“I’m delighted to have Professor Green’s support for this year’s Mental Health and Me competition. He’s someone who’s been through some very difficult personal experiences and written about them honestly and movingly and I know he’ll connect with what our competition entrants have written about and experienced. Likewise, they’ll be encouraged by his support for their creativity and his willingness to stand up and address mental health issues head-on. Like Professor Green, the Mental Health and Me writers and spoken word performers are doing powerful things to challenge stigma around mental distress and to get people talking about how they feel. Not only is that a positive thing for the individual writers and performers but it’s a positive thing for all of us! Thanks to Professor Green and thanks to all our competition entrants – you’re all inspirational!”
Claire Stevens, Liverpool Mental Health Consortium
The Competition
Liverpool’s Mental Health Consortium & Writing on the Wall are delighted to announce that the ‘Mental Health & Me’ writing competition is back for its second year!
To celebrate World Mental Health Day on Saturday, 10th October, the Liverpool Mental Health Consortium have created an action packed week of activities. As part of these celebrations, we are inviting you to send us an original response to the expression ‘Mental Health & Me.’ Last year’s competition was one of the highlights of the World Mental Health Day programme & attracted a wide selection of creative work across 6 categories – poetry, short stories, diary pieces or blog posts, letters, a piece of journalism, or even a 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.
Competition entries should be sent via email to: competition@liverpoolmentalhealth.org
Postal entries should be sent to: Writing on the Wall c/o Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, 4 Princes Road , Liverpool , L8 1TH
We 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) & to all age groups.
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