Hawai‘i Literature & Art
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Okay it’s too hard to decide on a single winner. So everyone wins this month. You all win ten bamboo bucks to use at the online bookstore. Just mention that you’re a July winner when you check out. Congratulations to Jim Harstad, Eiji, Teter, and Appleblossum. Keep on writing : )
Okay, here we go for July. The theme this month is “waiting.” You can either write a haiku, or you can write a 100 word piece — exactly 100 words. Don’t forget to click the Year of the Ram button when you submit your piece. Mahalo.
Okay, the judges had a tough time trying to decide on the winners for June. Almost had one fistfight. So we compromised. Everybody wins this month. You have all won 10 Bamboo Bucks to use at the online store. Just mention that you’re a June winner when you check out. And to claim your T-shirt,…
Even though the new site is not up yet, we’re anticipating it anytime now. To celebrate, we’re running a Great Year of the Ram/Sheep/Goat Writing Contest for June. The theme is: Beginnings And the word length is EXACTLY 100 words. That’s right, you must put in an entry that contains 100 words on the nose….
As we do every year of the contest, we will take March off in order to recover from Chinese New Year. See you for the all new writing contest in April : )
There is no word limit for your entries. HOWEVER, we are also looking for haiku entries, if you are so inclined : ) The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here: BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 103, BEYOND GREEN TEA AND GRAPEFRUIT, Poems and Stories by Gail N….
There is no word limit for your entries. HOWEVER, we are also looking for haiku entries, if you are so inclined : ) The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here: BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 101, THE NANJING MASSACRE POEMS, by Wing Tek Lum BAMBOO RIDGE Issue…
There is no word limit for your entries. HOWEVER, we are also looking for haiku entries, if you are so inclined : ) The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here: BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 98 BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 99, THREE YEARS ON DOREEN’S SOFA, by…
There is no word limit for your entries. HOWEVER, we are also looking for haiku entries, if you are so inclined : ) The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here: BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 96, NO CHOICE BUT TO FOLLOW, by Jean Yamasaki Toyama, Juliet S….
Congratulations! To our September winner in The Great BR Year of the Horse Writing Contest. She’s won 10 Bamboo Bucks to redeem in the BR online store. Here’s the award she won. Da mos Tiny Crayfish Souls Award “Grey Fantasy: I Felt Ill–at ease in a suit, really?” by ponikaa girl http://www.bambooridge.com/bambooshoot.aspx?bid=1553 Congratulations and keep…