Write on into the new year with this month’s contest rules and regs

Happy New Year to all. I hope that your 2018 will be filled with great writing sessions. Here are the guidelines for January.

Hey, guess what? You can

write a haiku

Or you can

write a piece that is EXACTLY 100 words

Or, just to make the goal a little easier to reach, you can

write a piece that is EXACTLY 1000 words. How’s that? A little more do-able? We shall see.

Here are the prompts for January 2018:

Happy New Year!

New Year’s Eve

Fireworks

Intoxication

Driving drunk

Accidents

Injuries

DUIs

Police Officers

Lawyers

Judges

Court

Spark

Sparkplugs

Sparklers

Celebrations

Resolutions

Restitution

Revolution

Well, you know . . .

Rulers

Compasses

Pencils

Pens

Exams

Successes

Failures

Communication

Paul Newman

Actors

Actresses

Movies

Celebrity

Celibacy

Cemetery

Extraordinary

Commonplace

In your face

Without a trace

List long enough for you? Then let’s party like it’s 1999. Write. If can, can. If no can — what? Can. Try. Make. Create.

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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.
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