Hawai‘i Literature & Art
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Update 01.02.20. Now we have 21. Only 10 more to go : ) Update 01.01.20. Okay, we have 13 so far. We need 31. Keep um coming. This is a message for: Homelessinhonolulu Doreen B. Jim Harstad Darrell Lanning Friends, I would like to use your triggers for the January writing contest. Please post your…
WoooHooo! Another great month of entires. Eh, no hold back. Write plenty and post plenty. Tis the season of giving, so geev’um. Congrats to Jim Harstad, Normie Salavador, Doreen B., A. Soyama, and Homlessinhonolulu. You all get the 10 Bamboo Bucks just in time to spend for the holidays in the Bamboo Ridge online store….
Were you watching the World Series? Did you go Trick-or-Treating? Get started on your holiday gift buying? Why? WTF were you thinking? You should have been writing, like Jim Harstad, Darrell, Rbibeau, and Doreen B. If you had been having fun writing instead of wasting your time, you might have been a monthly winner too….
After talking it over with the judges, we decided we need to run the September contest again in October. The reason why we’re doing this is because we made a mistake in the rules. Last month I said you should “write like you’re going to have some fun.” We didn’t mean that. Just like last…
Congratulations to Rbibeau, Teter, Doreen B, Darrell, and Jim Harstad. You’re all monthly winners in our Year of the Pig writing contest. That means each of you has won 1000000000 Bamboo Bucks. Oh, sorry, my finger got stuck on the 0 key. You’ve actually each won 10 Bamboo Bucks, which is still a lot of…
Rules? There are no stinking rules. Oh, wait — Every Monday through Friday, a word of the day will appears under the BLOGS tab at the top of the page, second tab from the left, next to the HOME tab. Choose any word of the day as a trigger for your piece. You are welcome,…
Congratulations to DoreenB, Darrell, and Jim Harstad. You’ve won the much coveted monthly prize of 10 Bamboo Bucks. You now what to do with them, right? Just let Joy know you’re an August winner when you check out of our online store. Hey! Keep writing. Try to post your pieces often. The more you post,…
If you go over to the Bolgs tab, you’ll see that each day, Monday through Friday, a word of the day is posted. Use any of those words in a piece of any kind of writing. Short, long, no matter. A sentence, the great Hawai’i Novel, a riddle, an ode, the lyrics to your next…
Hey, Happy hot August. Hope you aren’t seeing in your own juices these days. No deodorant can hold back Niagra Falls. Congratulations to Piihonua, DoreenB, Homelessinhonolulu, and Jim Harstad for winning 10 Bamboo Bucks (each – no need split um up). Use them in the BR store. Just tell Joy you’re a June winner when…
Ho da traumas in da Bahamas. My computa wen maké, so get all kine scrambling an screaming an cursing goin on ova hea at da Bamboo Shoots undagroun fort an bah an grill. Had to overcome ma hahtache wit plenny beahs. Now I stay sobah enuff, an I not crying too much, so time fo…