POETRY & ESSAY COMPETITION – Age Concern Essex

16.11.09 By admin.
 

Age Concern Essex is holding its annual essay and poetry competition for residents aged 60 and over, with all entries stored in the Essex Record Office. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2010.

Encouraging older people to share memories with future generations, Age Concern Essex began holding an annual Essay Competition in the 1950s as it was thought it might be very interesting to get older peoples’ reminiscences on record since once that particular generation disappeared, there would be no-one to ask “What was it like in your day?”. This competition proved so popular that it is still in being today with the added bonus of a Poetry Competition. Each year one copy of every entry is lodged with the Essex Record Office for the benefit of future generations.

For more details about how to apply, see the AGE CONCERN WEBSITE.

Comments

  1. Rita Pullen says:
    January 20, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    The link to the Age Concern website does not appear to be functioning and I haven’t had any success trying to access the website via AC or Google. Can you email me details of how to apply to enter the competition please, or let me know where I can get the information.

    Thanks

    Rita

  2. admin says:
    January 20, 2010 at 9:49 pm

    Hi – their old website seems down at the moment, try here: http://www.savs-southend.org/node/832
    Best
    Michaela
    IDEA13

  3. simon wallace says:
    January 28, 2010 at 11:32 am

    Entry forms are are freely available at all Southend Libraries, which support the competition. If you want to read some of the previous poems and essays, the Central library have lending copies of the published winners.

    More details on at http://www.southend.gov.uk/library

    Thanks
    Simon Wallace, Library Community team

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