Writing can help us make an emotional transition, or negotiate an obstacle in our path. In times of change, writing helps us process information about the new circumstances we find ourselves in. These moments mark milestones in our development, our progress from one stage of life to the next. This is the real journey.
We had an amazing response to our memoir-writing competition last year, with more than 500 entries. Psychologies editor Louise Chunn says, ‘Last year’s memoir-writing entries were fascinating, covering everything from childhood to dealing with illness or grief. Readers were so open and engaged that my co-judge Andrea Stuart and I both found it a real challenge to choose just one winner.’
The theme of this year’s writing competition is, simply, a journey. In no more than 500 words, give an account of a journey you have made, physical or emotional, actual or imagined. The judges will be Louise Chunn and Helen Garnons-Williams, fiction publisher at Bloomsbury. We will be looking for the most compelling and well-crafted pieces of writing.
The winner will be invited to a Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook course on how to get published, featuring talks by a guest writer, editors and agents. The winning story will be published in Psychologies. Five runners-up will be published on psychologies.co.uk
How to enter
Send your entry to competition@psychologies.co.uk and be sure to write ‘A Journey’ in the subject line (no attachments please). Or post it to us at Writing Competition, Psychologies, 72 Broadwick Street, London W1F 9EP. We can only accept one entry per person, and we must receive entries by midnight on 13 February 2012.
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For more than 100 years the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook has been helping writers make it into print. It also runs masterclasses, conferences and online services. The Bloomsbury Institute is running a new series of literary events and talks at Bloomsbury’s offices in central London.
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