Okay, for October the word counts are exactly 100 or exactly 500.
Topic #1
Surprise! It’s Halloween. Candy, ghosts, costumes, anything associated with it.
Topic #2
Surprise! It’s ghosts. Ooooooo.
Topic #3
Surprises. Any kind. Good, bad, ugly, good-looking, funny, serious, happy, sad.
Remember, these are only suggested prompts. Use them as springboards, or jump into the pool any old way. Write whatever you like. The most important thing is just to write. Remember, the editors might select your piece for publication in a future issue of Bamboo Ridge. Got get um!
Rules
- We reserve the right to remove content that promotes hate or gratuitous violence. Be respectful and courteous to others.
- All contest challenge entries must be submitted by the designated
- Enter as many times as you like using a trigger/prompt (this page).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
When is the deadline ?
Deadline is usually by 11:59 PM on the last day of the month. So Oct. 31st 🙂
Oh yeah, I have another question, how many submissions are haikus limited to ?
Christopher, aloha, you can enter as many times as you like. Aloha, Bamboo Buckaroo
I was wondering why there were no haiku winner(s) ?