Year of the Monkey Writing Contest for December : )

So now you’ve finished your holiday shopping right? No? What happened to you on Black Friday? Chicken? Nevah like go? Boo hoo for you.

So while you’re contemplating your unfulfilled gift list, take a little time to write something for December. We’re going up up up this month again. Sooooooooooooooooooo

You can write a haiku

or you can write a piece that’s exactly 100 words

or you can accept the challenge of writing a piece that’s exactly 1333 words. How’s that? Easy, right?

Here are the prompts for December:

Merry Christmas

Happy Hanukkah

Happy Kwanzaa

Happy Holidays

rituals

presents

trees

lights

New Year’s Eve

fireworks

fires

Smokey the Bear

warnings

prevention

So what are we waiting for? Let’s write already : )

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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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