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For My Father
April entry for the Year of the Horse contest. 251 words.
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Horse
2014 Year of the Horse Monthly Writing Contest Begins!
Happy Chinese New Year! 2014 is the ‘Year of the Horse’ and we’re continuing with our monthly writing contest. 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…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Horse
Year of the Horse Writing Contest: April Prompts
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: what I wanted was “Waterworks Series: Flagstones,” Willyce Kim that’s the worst part…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Horse
Lanai
You can have aaaall da pineapples you like …
A poem inspired by the news Lanai has a new landlord
245 words – My trigger is: they were the wrong size
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On the Day of the Birth
March entry, Year of the Horse contest. 894 words
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Horse
Year of the Horse Writing Contest for April
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: Use one of the prompts to trigger your piece…
Bamboo Shoots awards
January Winners in The Great BR Year of the Snake Writing Contest : )
Congratulations to the January winners in The Great BR Year of the Snake writing contest. They’ve won 10 Bamboo Bucks they can redeem at the online store. Here are the winners and the awards they’ve won: Da mos Beating of the Wings of Death Award “A Gathering of Friends,” by CHRISKK http://www.bambooridge.com/bambooshoot.aspx?bid=1506 Da mos Is…
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The Great BR Year of the Horse Writing Contest
There will be no contest in February. However, The Great BR Year of the Horse Writing Contest will debut in March : ) Stay tuned . . .
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Snake
The place where your horses run free
A Chinese New Year Story about a Filipino American family written in haibun. 281 words.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Horse
A Gathering of Friends
He explained that recently two of his best friends had died. He realized that not only had he lost them but he had lost parts of himself, experiences and corresponding memories that could never be shared again. He described the loss of others as pieces of ourselves falling away, never to be retrieved or replaced. As I said, he was eloquent in responding to a pop quiz after much eating and drinking. (774)