October! This month, the limit is again, no limit — as many or as few words as you would like to write. The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here: Issue Number 72, GROWING UP LOCAL: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose from Hawaiʻi Issue Number 73,…

Congratulations to Normie Salvador, an August winner in The Great BR Year of the Snake Writing Contest. Normie won 10 Bamboo Bucks to spend in the online store. Here’s the award won: Da mos Scary but Funny Award “The New Gravekeeper Is Made Welcome,” by Normie Salvador http://www.bambooridge.com/bambooshoot.aspx?bid=1466 Congratulations! And keep on entering the contest…

September! This month, the limit is again, no limit — as many or as few words as you would like to write. The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here: Issue Number 70, MORE KAUAʻI TALES, by Frederick B. Wichmann Issue Number 71, OUTSPEAKS: A RHAPSODY, by…

Triggers for September: 1. fast relief from pain 2. you know it can’t hurt you 3. an unsafe place to be 4. each small piece of me 5. like shifting into overdrive 6. so fearless 7. nothing but compassionate 8. no more seconds minutes hours days weeks years From “IF NOT CIVILIZATION THEN WHAT”: I…

From BR #70: Triggers for September: 1. then there would be much laughter 2. we have no strength left 3. the night was the longest 4. I did not see them 5. a little angry and a little frightened 6. his bitterness knew no end 7. we need to know more 8. what is she…

August already, and our contest enters its fourth year. This month, the limit is again, no limit — as many or as few words as you would like to write. The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here: Issue Number 67/68, OUTCRY FROM THE INFERNO: ATOMIC BOMB…

From “Kona Glitter, 1964: A Ghost Story,” by Kobai Scott Whitney . . .           For the life of me, I can’t remember what word we used for “hunk”in 1964. It seems to me that hunk did not appear until the 70s or 80s and that the girls of Kona Waena High in 1964 must have…

From Issue 67/68:           “For the past twelve centuries, the Japanese people have expressed their intense pent-up emotions in tanka, one of the most unique and shortest forms of poetic expression in the world. Most Japanese samurai wrote jisei (deathbed tanka) at the site of their hara-kiri. It was natural for many hibakusha to write taka…

July, she will fly : ) The Great BR Writing Contest is 3 years old this month. This month, the word limit is . . . uh . . . unlimited : ) That’s right, as many words as you want, but remember to put in your word count. The triggers for this month are…

Triggers for July: 1. so here’s my recommendation 2. an unexcused absence from school 3. watched me like a hawk 4. suddenly it was quiet 5. I’ll never know for sure 6. laughing non-stop 7. how we all dream dreams 8. love's wheel turns From “The Black and Yellow Raft,” by Jim Harstad            “You…