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Share your thoughts on resiliency, recovery, hope, success in the face of adversity and life experiences. Your writing can be as a poem, a personal essay, or a short story.  It can be on the theme of what faith and hope mean to you, especially as a part of recovery, or other life experiences you wish to share.  Drawings to illustrate the writings will also be accepted.

Contributions are welcome from persons in mental health and addiction recovery, as well as family members, counselors, advocates, and professionals. 

Poems and personal essays may be up to 400 words in length, and short stories up to 1,000 words in length. There is a limit of two entries per person. Send a completed Writings Receipt (download below) with the writings submitted.

We will choose entries to include in a booklet, and also ask some writers to read their piece during the Service of Hope on October 10, 2010 to celebrate Mental Illness Awareness Week.  Entries will not be returned.Deadline for entry is Monday, June 14, 2010.

Submit your entry with title and name on each item as a Word file to mtmhsac@yahoo.com
Or prepare your entry on white 8 l/2 x 11 inch paper in either ink or typed copy, and mail with Writings Receipt to:

MTMHSAC Writing Competition

PO Box 23584,Nashville, TN  37202

Or you can fax entires to (615) 665-9590

Download Writings Receipt for inclusion with submission.

Call Jane Baxter at (615) 594-4642 if you have any questions.