The SIXTH in our Poetry for Mental Health book series.

Interviews and personal stories.

We are also looking for interviews and personal stories. These can be about mental health, writing poetry for mental health, or your journey with mental health.

• INTERVIEWS

We can e-mail you a list of general questions, which you can then reply to at your leisure and adapt according to your own personal circumstances and experiences.

• PERSONAL JOURNEYS

Or you can simply write a piece of prose (written text) specifically about your own personal journey with mental health. Up to around 1500 words. Please also send a writers' biography, and any contact/social media details you don't mind being published with it - SEE ABOVE.

NOTE: We cannot re-publish poetry, interviews or personal journeys if they have already been published in any of our other books. However, material published on this website can be re-published in Vol.3, but please re-submit following the guidelines here.

IMPORTANT: No swearing or profanities of any kind, or anything of an adult nature. By submitting you agree for us to publish your work in this book, on this website, and/or on our Facebook page. You can submit under a pseudonym, or anonymously if you prefer. However, you do retain copyright and are free to publish your work anywhere else, and at any time after publication with us - we believe words about mental health issues should be read as widely as possible! We can also accept previously published work, as long as it credits where and when it was previously published, and that we have permission to re-publish.

Please try to send your submission/s altogether within one email, or as a .doc attachment to: Robin@PoetryForMentalHealth.org. Please do not send as a pdf file though, as they are sometimes difficult to cut and paste while keeping the correct format. Important: Please put SUBMISSIONS VOL.3 in the subject line so we don't get muddled up with other submissions.

IMPORTANT: If you have received an acceptance email regarding your submissions, you cannot then change or withdraw your submission as we immediately place all accepted submissions directly into paperback and Kindle formats.

We will normally acknowledge your submission within a few days, but please be patient - Poetry for Mental Health is run voluntarily and it receives a lot of emails every week, so it can sometimes take a while to get to everything!

ALSO IMPORTANT: We DO NOT send complimentary author's copies of the paperback; with so many authors from so many countries, firstly it would be logistically impossible, and secondly extremely expensive! Poetry for Mental Health receives no grants nor funding, and is run voluntarily in our own spare time, and any profits we make from the book go straight back into promoting and publishing poetry for mental health. However, we will of course, send a complimentary PDF e-book to everyone contributing.

Any questions? Contact us.

We are looking for a small number of sponsors to help us compile and publish this collection. In return we will add your name and/or company name as a sponsor in the leading pages of the book, as well as on the book's page of this website. If you are passionate about promoting positive mental health, and would like to support MENTAL HEALTH Vol.3, please contact us for further details.