It's August, and the BR Year of the Dragon Contest rolls on : )

We're sticking with the 100-word entries this month. And the triggers for your writing are these seven titles from :

Issue Number 34/35: Expounding the Doubtful Points, by Wing Tek Lum:http://www.bambooridge.com/news.aspx?nid=385

“What I Want”
“I Did Not Understand”
“That Extra Effort”
“An Aloha Only I Could Feel”

Issue Number 36: http://www.bambooridge.com/news.aspx?nid=386

“The Letter,” by Meredith S. Carson
“Local Wisdom,” by Amy Umematsu
“What My Mother Said to Me,” by Mahealani Ing

Use one of these titles to trigger your 100-word piece.

Rules:

1. You can submit one entry per month. All July entries must be posted on the Bamboo Shoots page of the BRP site between August 1 and August 31 at 2:00 p.m. HST.

2. Entries can be prose (including super short stories, nonfiction essay-lets, or whatever you write), poetry, or playlets — or any type of hybrid writing you dream up, and entries MUST be 100 words OR LESS.

Remember — no joke — 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 no joke plus, 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 — REALLY NOT KIDDING — include your word count.

Your entry should look like this:

Title: Shut Up!

A blurb about your piece or a good quote from your piece: 98 words

Body:

           “Don't you dare talk back to me or your father,” my mother said. . . . blah blah blah . . . Then I decided to just shut the smurf up.

5. Winners will be announced with all possible BR speed after 2:00 p.m. HST, August 31st, and they'll win Bamboo Bucks credit to spend in the BRP online bookstore. WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!

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 smurfin' write dose smurfin' 100-word whatevahs!

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.