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The Castle Craig Hospital’s Essay Writing Competion — Apply (£1,000)

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Castle Craig Hospital in Scotland is launching an annual international essay writing competition for students. The theme for the contest is, “Focusing on Addiction” . The competition is intended for all students of:
• medicine,
• psychology,
• nursing,
• psychotherapy and
• social work.

Guidelines
• Entrants are to choose one from 3 different essay questions.
• The essay contest requires readers to ask the following questions:

  • Is addiction to a drug a brain disease? ;
  • What is the role of psychotherapy in realising and sustaining recovery from addiction??
  • ‘Society holds the solution to addiction because social problems are the main cause ‘?

• Entrants are to write on any of the aforementioned themes or essay questions in not more than 3000 words.
• Entrants are to download and submit an entry form. Visit their website to download the form.

All entries must be accompanied by a signed entry form sent by post, or electronic form. Essays received without an assigned entry form will be disqualified. Submissions by fax will not be accepted. E-signature is acceptable, as is a scanned document of the entry form.

  • Essays may be submitted as a hard copy by post, or as a Microsoft Word document email attachment sent to l.douglas@castlecraig.co.uk – Please specify on the entry form by ticking the correct box.

Prize:
The award for 1st prize is £1,000, and there will be up to 5 runner-up prizes of £250. Additional notable submissions will receive a written commendation.

Deadline:
Submissions will be accepted until Midnight on the 30th of December 2018.

To learn how to write award winning personal essays, click HERE

Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam

Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam writes prose fiction and creative non-fiction. She is the founder of creativewritingnews.com. Her first novella, Finding Love Again was published by Ankara Press. Her second novella, The Heiress' Bodyguard was shortlisted for the Saraba Manuscript Awards. She currently works as content marketer for various online businesses. You can follow her at @cwritingnws.

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