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Announcing the 2008 Annual KidneyTimes Essay Contest Theme: "Funding a Dream: Giving Back"
6/2/2008 - Announcing the 2008 Annual KidneyTimes Essay Contest Theme: "Funding a Dream: Giving Back"
For Immediate Release
Announcing the 2008 Annual Kidney Times Essay Contest Theme: Funding a Dream: Giving Back
GLENDALE, CA (June 2, 2008)The Annual KidneyTimes essay contest, sponsored by the Renal Support Network has announced the 2008 theme: Funding a Dream: Giving Back. There are cash prizes of $500, $300, and $100 for the first three entries and all winners will be featured on the front page of KidneyTimes.com and featured in RSNs publication Live & Give.
Lori Hartwell, president and founder of RSN gives some further hints: Imagine that you go to your mailbox one morning and inside you find a check in the amount of $100,000! How would you spend it to benefit the kidney community? In 750 words or less, entrants are asked to imagine what they would choose to do to inspire or help fellow kidney patients.
All people who have been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and who love to write are encouraged to enter. Entries must be received by August 31, 2008. Entrants must include their complete name, address, phone number and email address, and mail, email or fax. Prospective entrants must visit www.kidneytimes.com or www.RSNhope.org for more information and contest rules.
Essays will be judged by an expert panel of writers and kidney patients for appropriateness to the theme, originality of idea, creativity, and technical expertise.
There is a huge, untapped reservoir of literary talent among those with kidney disease. Not only talent, but an innovative perspective that goes beyond the mundane, possibly entering into the profound and spiritual. This fresh insight can bring a joyful laugh, a grateful tear, or food for thought as the reader comprehends the overwhelming challenges that the chronically ill face every day. If it is true that we all have a book in us waiting to be born, then there should be a substantial library among kidney patients awaiting its Grand Opening!
Renal Support Network (RSN) offers informative, often entertaining patient-directed programs that bring health, happiness and hope into the lives of others affected by chronic kidney disease, whether in its early stages, on dialysis or after a kidney transplant. RSN is a non-profit, patient-run organization that strives to help others develop their personal coping skills, special talents and employability, by educating and empowering them, as well as their family members, to take control of the course and management of the disease.
Media Contact:
Heidi Lesemann, Renal Support Network, (866) 903-1728 Ext. 105, heidi@rsnhope.org
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