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Guidelines and Entry Form 2020

GUIDELINES

The Festival:

The 2020 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF) will take place at venues across Scotland from 4th -24th May 2020. Led by the Mental Health Foundation, the festival aims to support the arts and challenge preconceived ideas about mental health.

The Competition:

The SMHAF writing competition is managed in partnership with Bipolar Scotland. It provides opportunities for both new and established writers to produce new work exploring mental health in diverse ways.

This year's theme for all categories is "PERSPECTIVES". This can be interpreted in any way you choose - the limit is your imagination. There are three categories:

• FICTION: Short stories between 500 and 2000 words.

• POETRY: Poems up to 40 lines.

• CREATIVE NONFICTION: Creative prose with a factual basis, between 500 and 2000 words. Examples can include diary entries, autobiographical writing, personal essays and literary journalism.

The closing date for the competition is midnight on Sunday 1st March 2020. We cannot accept any entries received after this date.

Submission guidelines (please read before submitting):

1. Entry to the competition is free.

2. Entrants must be over 16 years of age.

3. Entries must be typed and in English.

4. Entries must be on the theme of “PERSPECTIVES”.

5. Entries must be the entrant’s own original work and must not have previously been published either in print or online.

6. We will accept entries written at any time as long as they have not previously been submitted to Bipolar Scotland’s poetry and short story competitions, or previous SMHAF Writing Competitions.

7. Word count:

Fiction, between 500 and 2000 words

Poetry, up to 40 lines

Creative Nonfiction, between 500 and 2000 words

8. We can only accept entry by email:

Entrants should send a single email with their full name as the subject to smhaffbipolar@ by midnight on Sunday 1st March 2020.

Entries must be submitted as WORD attachments to the email. Please do not attach folders. The entry should not be typed in the body of the email. It MUST be an attachment. Attachments should be compatible Word files only. The completed entry form should be one attachment, with each entry as a separate attachment.

Please name each file with the title of the entry. Do not put name, initials or anything that may identify you on any file except the entry form and in the subject bar.

9. By entering you are agreeing to be published in any media or subsequent anthologies associated with the competition as approved by the SMHAF, however copyright of any work submitted remains with the author.

10. Shortlisted entrants will be notified by Friday 10th April 2020. The judges’ shortlisted entries will be invited to the Writing Awards ceremony during the Festival, where they will be invited to read their entry. On the night, one winner will be announced in each category, along with an overall winner. If you have not heard by the above date, you have not been successful. Due to a high number of entries we cannot provide individual feedback.

For further information, and to answer any queries, please contact:

Bipolar Scotland at smhaffbipolar@ or 0141 560 2050.

Bipolar Scotland, Studio 1015, Mile End Mill, Abbeymill Business Centre, Seedhill Road, Paisley PA1 1TJ

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ENTRY FORM (make sure you have read the guidelines before completing this form)

Entrant details:

|Name: |

|Address (inc. postcode and country): |

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|Phone: | Email: |

|How did you hear about the competition: |

About your submission:

(Please fill out for each submission; you can only submit one entry for each category)

|Title: |

|Category (Please delete as appropriate): |

|Poem |Short Story |Creative Non-Fiction |

|Title: |

|Category (Please delete as appropriate): |

|Poem |Short Story |Creative Non-Fiction |

|Title: |

|Category (Please delete as appropriate): |

|Poem |Short Story |Creative Non-Fiction |

I HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SUBMISSION AS LAID OUT IN THE ABOVE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES.

|Name: |Date: |

By submitting this completed form you confirm that the entry is your own work and does not include any plagiarised material

PLEASE SEND ENTRIES TO: SMHAFFBIPOLAR@.

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