Write Health Stories for Children and Adults

Do you have valuable experience or expertise in coping with illness you would like to pass on to other users of Patient UK as a story or poem? Or could you use your story telling or poetic talent to help us convey important health messages in an attractive way?

If you would like to have a go and earn up to £50 for every written work we accept (if a page or more long) then please register with our (free) authoring sister site, MoreWriting, where you will find the tools to start work.

The process is as follows:

  • Register with MoreWriting giving your writing name and password (link top left of MoreWriting Home Page). This will create a portfolio, called 'MySpace' for you to use.
  • Once registered, you can navigate to 'MySpace' using left hand menu. Click the link to start writing, enter in a title, select the type 'Educational Health Stories' - and you are off.
  • When you have written a health story or poem then follow the instructions to send it for review by other authors and our medical experts. The criteria we will be using to select works for payment include:
    • Creativity
    • Originality
    • Readability
    • Clarity of medical message
    • Favourable review by other MoreWriting authors
    • Technically correct
  • Your work may pass review at the first attempt or you may need to take in some of the feedback first.
  • If we would like to use your work, we will make you an offer for it (depending on length and suitability) and then post it on Patient UK under your name or writing name.

Anyway, good luck.

We will consider stories and poems written to help educate people about any health topic of public interest. If you are writing with children in mind then please make sure the language you use is suitable for ages 7-12.

Story and Poem Topic Suggestions

The topics that have been covered so far are:

There are over 700 information leaflets on Patient UK so there are many more topics that could be covered, just let your creativity flow, however it's worth reading up on the subject first to make sure whatever you write is medically correct. One are that is worth considering is:

General learning difficulties

Use the Patient UK search box above and type in 'learning difficulties'. Follow links to self help group web sites to find out more.

Please don't hesitate to contact us with further questions.













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