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A Writers' Dream to end stigma


I've always been a writer. Here's my chance to attend workshops and improve my writing. I am writing a collection of short stories about people with mental illness. I'm writing from the view of people and not like a lecture or the PDR. I'm hoping to offer hope in my stories and help others to understand what it's like to live with mental illness.

I am a disabled writer and there is a Rutgers University Writers' Conference I am hoping to attend come June 3rd & 4th,  2017.  Please consider donating to this cause. This conference would offer me an opportunity to improve as a writer and to meet with publishers and agents. 

I am currently writing a collection of short stories where the central characters have a mental illness. I am hoping by having these stories published I will be able to bring a voice that will help to end the stigma connected with mental illness and help others who know someone or are just curious to understand what it means to live with a mental illness like BiPolar or depression or anxiety.

I feel that the mentally ill are not represented properly in the media and society as a whole. I hope to network and learn from this conference how I can get my work published and how to be a more accomplished writer.

Just to have the opportunity to network with those in the literary community,  would open up opportunities I could not obtain on my own. It would mean the world to me to have my work published and to help others understand what it means to have a mental illness and to give hope to those who live with these illnesses each day.

Thank you for considering my cause and thank you to those who contribute.

Organizer

Dana Hunter
Organizer
Montclair, NJ

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