April 2025 Bamboo Shoots Contest Winners and May 2025 Prompts

Writing Friends, my apologies for this tardy post.  I just flew in, and boy are my arms tired, but not too tired to post this now : )

Our April winner is Lilinoe Stupplebeen.  Congratulations, Lilinoe, you’ve won 10 Bamboo Bucks to spend in the Bamboo Ridge Press online store.  Send an email to

[email protected]

and they’ll send you a code you can use when you check out of the store.

Without further ado, here are the May prompts you can use, or choose to ignore.  Write what you want to write.  That’s okay.  Please remember that pieces in any language are welcome, but providing a translation may allow your piece to reach a wider audience.

This month’s prompts are:

Yesterday’s Tomorrow
A Slow Dancing Sky
Lucky Numbahs
In the Beginning
Scavengers
Breath of Paradise
He Could Still See
Fairytales
The Bad Things Happened at Night
Hawaiian Monk Seal
The Big Island
Shut Down Red Hill
The Nene

Let’s go 100 to 1000 words.  Chose to use one of the prompts as a springboard, or write whatever you’d like to write.

Okay, gang, let’s write.

 

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1. We reserve the right to remove content that promotes hate or gratuitous violence. Be respectful and courteous to others.
2. All contest challenge entries must be submitted by the designated
3. Enter as many times as you like using a trigger/prompt (this page).
4. Contest Challenge entries can be prose (including short stories, nonfiction essays, or whatever you write), poetry, or plays -- or any type of hybrid writing you dream up.
5. Every entry must have a title -- unless you choose to enter a haiku, in which case you can simply enter the word haiku in the title section.
6. All content/entries should be original work. You retain ownership of your entries; however, we may ask to use them elsewhere on the site or on social media to help promote Bamboo Ridge and/or the Bamboo Shoots online writing community.
7. Winners will be announced with all possible speed after the end of each month. Winners receive 10 Bamboo Bucks credit to spend in the BRP online bookstore. Bamboo Bucks have no monetary value outside of the online store.
8. Entries may also be selected for publication in the regular Bamboo Ridge Journal. If your piece is chosen, the editors will contact you via the email address on file.
9. Please note that you need not enter the contest challenge in order to post on Bamboo Shoots. You may post other writing if you choose. We welcome that here:  Click this link to go to Shoot da Breeze.