As you will undoubtably know, there isn't an organisation like Write Disability out there. We are a world first!!! Made by disabled writers for disabled writers. Make no mistake: THIS IS NOT A "SPECIAL" AWARD FOR ANYONE WHO CAN PRESS A KEY ON A KEYBOARD OR PUT PEN TO PAPER. In saying that I mean no disrespect for those who have literacy problems, but I must stress that this is probably not the most rewarding forum for you.
The prize is awarded like this:
You send us your story/poem/article, we read them all then award the prize to the writer we mutally agree has done the best work.
We need contributions, both writing and financial to make this site a success. You see, our goal is to be in a situation where we can provide a small prize, an honorarium to a worthy writer. So let's start that award now shall we?
So, for now (and I must remind you that we are poor struggling authors too) we will award you with the below prize:
Which you can print out or place on your own website, not to mention the fact that your writing will get world-wide exposure!
Of course, as funds come online we will award more substantial prizes, the nature of which will be revealed closer to that date.
As an incentive for you to send us your writings we will be advertising this blog to Literary Agents, Publishers, Disability groups and other organisations to get you started.
It is easiest and cheapest to E-mail us your writings, but if you want to post them to us via snail-mail, they will be treated exactly the same as electronic copies,
Or our postal address is:
Write Disability
94G Savage Crescent
Palmerston North
New Zealand
94G Savage Crescent
Palmerston North
New Zealand
But you don't have to enter for the prize, you may simply wish to write a book review, a movie review, comment on an item of interest, this is your place!
Oh yes, I nearly forgot.... Any accessible format is fine; E-mail, Floppy disk, CD-Rom, Audio casette, paper, just send then in!
We really look forward to hearing from you, from our experience we know that there are a huge amount of talented disabled writers out there. Until now you haven't had a voice, now you do, now you have Write Disability to be your voice!
