The Great BR Year of the Snake Contest for April : )

Writers, are you ready to write? Okay, the word limit for this month is 500 words again.

The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following texts. Find them here:

Issue Number 57, Winter 1993, New Moon

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE PAHALA THEATRE, By Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Use one of the prompts to trigger your 500-word piece AND if you use one of the lines in your piece, your mojo is strong : )

Rules:

1. You can submit one entry per month. All 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 essay-lets, or whatever you write), poetry, or playlets — or any type of hybrid writing you dream up, and entries MUST be 500 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 Snake Contest” button for your entry.

3. Every entry must have a title, 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: Leaving the Islands

A blurb about your piece or a good quote from your piece: 489 words

Body:

           I told myself I would never take a job outside of Hawaii . . . blah blah blah . . . Hello, Las Vegas, you better not make me wish I were back in Hawaii.

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. WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!

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 you'd have to leave Hawaii behind if you didn't write like crazy : )

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.