PARKINSON'S sufferer Mollie Thompson was on the 'write lines' to pick up a special award.
Mollie, from Lytham St Annes, won this year's Parkinson's Disease Society Mervyn Peake Award for poetry with her poem Out Post.
Launched by the society and the Peake family seven years ago, the Mervyn Peake awards celebrate the creative achieveme
nts of people with Parkinson's in art, poetry and photography.
The awards are held in memory of the late illustrator, writer and poet Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), whose works included Gormenghast and the Alice in Wonderland illustrations, and who developed Parkinson's in later life.
This is the fourth year Mollie, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's seven years ago, has entered the awards.
She said: "I love doing anything creative. I've written poetry for years and I like to write stories and paint also.
"I'm really pleased to have won, and I really enjoyed travelling down to London for the awards and meeting so many people with shared interests."
Mollie was presented with her award by Richard Briers and Fabian Peake at a ceremony in London.
This year's competition received a record 326 entries, from which three category winners were selected.
A selection of this year's entries is being used to create the Parkinson's Disease Society Calendar 2009, which will include Mollie's award-winning poem.
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