Have you experienced mental health problems, or are you a family member or friend of someone who has?

The Advocacy Project is inviting you to enter it's poetry competition, Healing Words, which is back for its second year.

Actress Joanna Scanlan and jazz musician Gill Manly are amongst the six judges for the competition.

Creativity is known to help people express themselves during the darkest days of their mental illness and throughout their recovery. It helps support self-understanding of mental health conditions.

There are five different categories you can enter:

Darkest days: poems from before the dawn of hope
Good days and bad days: poems from the road to recovery
Being well: poems about more peaceful times
Illustrated poem: poems with illustration
Spoken word poem: poems spoken

You can write, record or film your poem. Your poem should be a maximum of 25 lines and only one entry per person.