Talking and reading about other people’s childhoods, sadness, happiness and aspirations can help us to cope with our own ups and downs, but shared experience is seldom there to support us when our life is nearing its end or when people close to us are dying.
Dying Matters Coalition is running a new creative writing competition about dying, death and bereavement. Anyone touched by dying, whether directly or as a relative, friend, colleague or carer, can enter.
The judges will be looking for original writing in which the author’s feelings and thoughts about the end of life have been crafted into a succinct piece of work that attracts the reader’s attention and retains their interest.
Prizes 1st: £200; 2nd: £100; 3rd: £50; plus highly commended certificates.
All entries will also be considered for publication online or in print form.
The winners will be announced during Dying Matters Awareness Week, 14-20 May 2012.
Entry is free
Deadline: 31 March 2012.
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