Win £100 and help animals.

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Win £100 and help abandoned animals!

Hi, welcome to a blog that’s a little different to the usual one. If you read my blog regularly you may have read about San Animal Santuario which is based in San Juan de Los Terreros on the Murcia –Andalucía border .  

A small international team of volunteers rescue abandoned dogs, puppies, kittens and cats. Due to the dire financial crisis in Spain, animals are dumped in rubbish bins, left on busy roads, or abandoned in the countryside. Recently a puppy was rescued from the countryside where he was found tied up in full sun, with no food or water, he’d simply been left to slowly die in agony.

San Animal Santuario find many animals new homes in other parts of Europe which incurs the additional costs of them being neutered, vaccinated, given passports and transported etc. There is also a programme to sterilise feral cats.

Well known author and tutor for Writing Magazine, Sue Johnson and myself have set up a writing competition in order to raise funds for the shelter.
 

Competition Rules.

1) Short stories of up to 1000 words on the theme of Sanctuary must be submitted by 31^st July. The theme can be interpreted in any way that you wish, for example a special place, or perhaps  someone's loving arms, or the sanctuary of a church or a place of safety, or shelter for animals or humans, or even a beauty salon!  The choice is yours.

2) Please type and double space your work on single sides of A4.

3) Include your contact details on a separate sheet – name, address, Email, phone no. Don’t put your name on the story itself.

4) There is an entry fee of £5 per story – or £12 for three - with the option of a full critique by Sue for an additional £5 per story

5) 1^st prize £100 2^nd £50 3^rd £25

6) Cheques should be made payable to S. Johnson, and sent with your entry to:

Sanctuary competition, The Gallops, Southam Lane, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 3NY, U.K.

7) If you would like a critique please enclose return postage – all other entries will be shredded after the competition.

8)Results will be published on this blog and Sue Johnson's web site.

 Sue’s web site can be found on www.writerstoolkit.co.uk