Write up your Street

In 2010 you will have the opportunity to take part in Care-Write, an exciting writing project open to all Unpaid and Family Carers in Shropshire.

We will be collecting your stories, poems and short autobiographical pieces as the year progresses and publishing a collection in an anthology in December 2010. The anthology will be launched at a celebratory evening and then circulated to Shropshire libraries and put on sale to the general public.

Writing has many positive benefits for you as a carer. It can enable you to: release emotions, grow in confidence, share experiences, resolve difficulties, explore other perspectives and escape through your imagination and fantasy. Also, carers have rich experiences directly of life and it's joys and sorrows and your writing can draw on these and can benefit others who read your work.

So, if you have ever felt you would like to express your thoughts and emotions in short stories or poems or if there been things which have happened in your life which you would like others to read about then this the opportunity for you!

There are three ways you can take part in the project:

( 1 ) Care-Write sessions

To help you take part there will be eight, monthly, two hour Care-Write sessions. You may like to attend all or some of these. In these relaxed and informal sessions we will work together to develop your writing technique and broaden your range of writing experience.

Future Care-Write sessions will take place at The Gateway in Shrewsbury on Thursday Feb 18th, Thursday March 11th and Thursday April 1st.

( 2 ) Submit work directly for the anthology

If you are unable to join us at the sessions, you can send your work for the anthology directly to the Care-Write editorial team. We hope to be able to give people tips on how to edit and improve their work. The editorial team will be led by Dave Bingham an experienced literary magazine and anthology editor.

( 3 ) Submit work, ideas, comments and opinions to the blog

Also, you will be able to publish your work on the Care-Write blog ( www.carewrite.blogspot.com ) which will keep people up-to-date with the project and publish the latest work on the internet as the project develops.

Send submissions for the anthology or the blog to Dave at one of the following addresses: Dave Bingham, Care-Write, The Gateway, Chester Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 1NB
or ‘e’ mail Dave at carewrite@gmail.com


We want to include as many writers as possible in the project; so please let us know if you have any ideas to help us do this.

If you wish to take part in the project or have any further questions please contact::


Dave Bingham, 01952 432112 or Jackie Smith, 01743 253906 or Sarah Bromley, 01743 355159
or
e mail the project at carewrite@gmail.com
or
write to Care-Write, The Gateway, Chester Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 1NB