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Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Snake
January: Final Year of the Snake Writing Contest : )
Happy End of December. I hope that Santa brought you everything you wanted. Unless you were naughty. In which case I’d like to meet you : )
As in the past few months, this month there is no word limit for your entries. HOWEVER, we are also looking for haiku entries, if you are so inclined : )
The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here:
Issue Number 78, da word, by Lee A. Tonouchi
Issue Number 79, Spring 2001, New Moon
You’ll notice that there is a bonus trigger: New Year’s Traditions.
Use one of the prompts to trigger your piece AND if you use one of the lines in your piece, your mojo is strong : )
Contest Rules
Rules:
1. You can submit one entry per month. All entries must be posted on the Bamboo Shoots page of the BRP site between January 1 and January 31 at 2:00 p.m. HST.
2. 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.
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 Snake Contest" button for your entry.
3. Every entry must have a title -- unless you choose to enter a haiku, in which case you should simply enter the word haiku in the title section -- and the title does NOT count against the word total.
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: I Don't Get It / or just Haiku
A blurb about your piece or a good quote from your piece: 20 words
Body:
He got out of his car, came to my window, asked me to roll it down -- which I foolishly did -- and punched me in the face. . . . blah blah blah . . . Compared to me he was pretty bloody by the time we finished fighting for no reason I could figure out.
5. Winners will be announced with all possible BR speed after 2:00 p.m. HST, January 31, and they'll win Bamboo Bucks credit to spend in the BRP online bookstore. WOOOOOHOOOOO!!! And may you'll be published in a future issue of Bamboo Ridge : )
6. Don't forget that 29 entries from July 2010 through June 2011 were selected for publication in the 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 write like want the new year to be your year : )
This prompt is closed for submissions.