National and International entries are welcome.
SaveAs Writers invite entries of poetry and prose for their annual competition.
2023 celebrates the centenary of the publication of Freud’s The Ego and the Id. We hope that the theme of ‘all in the mind’ inspires you to write about the role of the unconscious in our daily experience and our culture. How do hidden forces motivate human beings in our spiritual, emotional, and mental lives? Are we essentially rational or irrational beings.
Prose writers such as Dostoevsky, Woolf and Faulkner have explored the tensions in the psyche while works such as Hamlet and The Thought Fox have treated the topic in drama and poetry. In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the repressed memories and shame associated with a Southern childhood are central while the chaotic dream logic of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled also links to Freud. Why not find your own slant on Freud's theories?
You should feel free to interpret the theme as you wish. We look forward to reading your responses
Entry fee for each poem is £3 or £8 for three. Entry fee for each story is £4 or £10 for 3.
