Get creative

Arthritis Care is launching its fifth annual creative writing competition. This year’s theme is If I were an Olympian.

We’d like you to tell us what being mobile means to you and your arthritis. You might choose to focus your writing on accomplishments you have achieved, exercise goals you are working towards, or perhaps you can imagine yourself competing in the Olympic Stadium.

However you find your mobility affects you, write about it in our creative writing competition. Write a story or poem of up to 750 words and submit by 29 July 2011.

The winning entry will appear in an issue of Arthritis News, and the winner will receive a £500 Open University voucher to spend on a distance learning course of their choice.
How to enter

Read our terms and conditions. Winners will be announced on 3 September 2011.

Please send entries with your contact details including your telephone number to Creative@arthritiscare.org.uk or to Creative Writing Competition, 18 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD. If you have any queries regarding the competition, please call Lexy Barber on 020 7380 6521.

Terms and conditions

The winner's prize is a £500 voucher for a course at the Open University. The winning entry will be printed in an issue of Arthritis News.
Terms and conditions

The competition is only open to people who have arthritis.

Entrants must be 18 or over.

Entries must be written in English and must not exceed 750 words.

Entries must be about the author’s experiences of arthritis and must use the theme If I Were an Olympian.

Arthritis Care staff may not enter this competition.

Only one entry per person.

Entries must be received by 12 noon on Friday 29 July 2011.

The winner will be announced on the Arthritis Care website by 3 September 2011.

The winning entry will be published on the Arthritis Care website and in Arthritis News. Arthritis Care also reserves the right to publish other entries.

There is no cash alternative.

The judges’ decision is final.

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