Entries are being accepted through 2:00 p.m.(HST) April 30th
Aloha to all of you friends and supporters of BAMBOO RIDGE. I hope your March is going well and that all your loved ones near and far are safe. Happy Birthday to all the March folks. Don't think of it as being a year older. Think of it as celebrating being a year better at…
Entries are being accepted through 2:00 p.m.(HST) March 31st
Bamboo Shoots offshoot
From BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number Three, June – August 1979, Full Moon
Inheritance by wanda fujimoto my grandmother died before I had a face she reclaims me now with silence and a brown photograph: her kimono, hair, face, the instep of her turned-in foot I have no stock in this place the woman in the picture is the sole estate of…
Bamboo Shoots offshoot
From BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number Four, September – November 1979, Last Quarter
Ass Why Hard by Garrett Kaoru Hongo We sit out on the concrete slab of our backyard patio, catching the sun sifting through apricot and lemon trees, both of us studying: him, stacks of books high as the egg crates we piled in back of the Hongo Store; me, my sports page and guide to…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Fishing100
Announcing da Rules for: The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 – 100 Contest for March 2011
Yeeeeehah! It's time to start The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 – 100 Contest to begin : ) Rules for The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 – 100 Contest: 1. You can submit one entry per month. All entries must be posted on the Bamboo Shoots page of the BRP site between March…
Ever wanted to indent the paragraphs of your blogs, your news entries, or your bamboo shoot entries? Me too : ) Now you can! Thanks to BRP webmeister Haken Pax, you can now indent your paragraphs using the tag — with no space between the [ and the sp5] like I have…
Aloha to all you wonderful friends and supporters of BAMBOO RIDGE. I hope you all had a very Happy Valentine's Day. In case you didn't hear the good news, on February 3rd Punxsutawney Phil did not — I repeat did not — see his shadow. So you know what that means, right? It means that…
Mahalo nui loa to all of you who've taken the time to post your 100-word stories since July. Man, time really does fly : ) The final round winners for the first-ever Great BR Short-Short Story Contest are listed below, along with their award categories. For all you winners, you know that this means a…
Mahalo nui loa to all of you who’ve taken the time to post your 100-word stories since July. Man, time really does fly : ) The final round winners for the first-ever Great BR Short-Short Story Contest are listed below, along with their award categories. For all you winners, you know that this means a…