Deadline: November 1, 2010
If you could travel back in time and talk to your younger self, what would you say? In this competition we asked you to write a letter of a maximum 500 words to yourself at any age - perhaps to give your younger self advice and reassurance or to make a promise to your older self to carry on enjoying the good life.
We were inundated with many wonderful letters, containing words of encouragement, reassurance, guidance and hope. Our judging panel, led by author Marina Lewycka, took on the difficult task of choosing the winners.
You can read the shortlisted Letters to Myself here
Read the top five winning entries below.
The deadline for entries has passed.
Winning entries
First place
Unbecoming Behaviour
by Mary Gladstone
September, 1997 Dear Mary, You know who I am - your alter ego, and I feel I really must write to you again regarding your most unbecoming behaviour. Last week...
Second place
Letter to Myself aged 13
by David Alan King
When I was thirteen a classmate committed suicide. Although my grandfather had passed away a year before, the shock of this death was profound. At the time, I was unable...
Third place
Dear Kathryn
by Kathryn O'Connor
You are twenty nine years old and pregnant. For the fourth time. So why the tears? You always wanted five children and the three you have already are healthy and...
Third place
Dare to be Different
by Elizabeth Mills
Dear Garry, I know you will not recognise my name, and you are wondering why I am writing to you, but I also know that your enquiring mind will want...
Third place
Kismet
by Diana Walsh
Hi Kiddo, Madeleine Peyroux’s cover version of ‘I’m going to sit right down and write you a letter’ is playing softly in the background and I thought of you all...
