No Fooling. The Great BR Year of the Dragon Contest, Month #2 : )

Happy Year of the Dragon to all of you, and welcome to the April edition of The Great BR Year of the Dragon Contest:

Here are the two trigger pieces for April:

From Issue Number 25, Excerpts from Who da Guy? by Hiroshi Kawakami

From Issue Number 26, an excerpt from “The Ten Rules of Fishing,” by Lisa Masumoto, and “Language Barrier,” by Lisa Horuchi — Ho, da plenny Lisas : )

Unlike The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 – 100 Contest, there are no theme choices, and there is no upper or lower word limit. After reading the pieces, YOU decide on your writing theme, and YOU decide whether you want your piece to be 10 words, 100 words, 1000 words — well, you get it, right?

For anyone who may have trouble choosing a writing theme, I'd suggest possibilities such as “animals,” “tricks,” “patience,” “language barriers,” or “music.”

Da Rulz an Stuffs:

1. You can submit one entry per month. All April entries must be posted on the Bamboo Shoots page of the BRP site between April 1 and April 30 at 2:00 p.m. HST.

2. Entries can be prose (including short stories, nonfiction essays, or whatever you come up with), poetry, or plays — or any type of hybrid writing you dream up : )

Remember if you want to do paragraph indentations to make it easier for the judges to read your piece : ), put the            tag — no spaces — in front of the line you want to indent five spaces.

And don't forget to click the “Year of the Dragon Contest” button for your entry.

3. Every entry must have a title.

4. In the section below the title where it says:

A blurb about your piece or a good quote from your piece:

You MUST include Year of the Dragon Entry to help the judges distinguish between contest entries and all other entries.

Your entry should look like this:

Title: Some Call It Luck

A blurb about your piece or a good quote from your piece: Year of the Dragon Contest

Body:

           From the moment he crawled out of bed, Mr. Chong Min knew his day would be challenging. . . . blah blah blah . . . In total exasperation, Mr. Min threw himself onto his Lay-Z-Boy and moaned, “If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.”

5. Winners will be announced with all possible BR speed after 2:00 p.m. HST, April 30th, and they'll win Bamboo Bucks credit to spend in the BRP online bookstore.

6. Don't forget that 29 entries from July 2010 through June 2011 were selected for publication in the upcoming landmark 100th issue of BAMBOO RIDGE. So you never know. Your piece might be published in a future issue of BAMBOO RIDGE : )

Good luck to you, and let's write!

By participating in the Bamboo Shoots community, you agree to the following rules:

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.