Liverpool’s Mental Health Consortium & Writing on the Wall have announced 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 10 October 2015, budding writers are invited to write a poem, short story, spoken word piece, blog post, letter, piece of journalism or even a tweet on the theme ‘Mental Health and Me’.

Organisers are encouraging entries from anyone with an interest in mental health and wellbeing. The competition is open to anyone living within Merseyside (Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral, St Helens) and to all age groups.

Last year’s overall competition winner, Gemma Rogers says: ‘’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.”

For each category, there will be a judging panel comprising of professional writers, booksellers, librarians, and people with personal experience of mental distress. The winners of each category will form the shortlist from which the overall winner will be selected.

The overall champion of all seven categories will win the special WoW & LMHC trophy, & book tokens from our independent book store, News from Nowhere.
The winners and runners-up from each category (including the Top 10 Tweets) will be included in an anthology, published by Liverpool Mental Health Consortium and Writing on the Wall.

The deadline for entries is 5pm on Monday 14 September 2015.

For more information visit www.writingonthewall.org.uk

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