UAE Prose and Poetry Contest
 

~One hundred Word Prose
Self explanatory. Entries must be under 100 words. No going over or the entry will be bumped up to the 500 word prose category. Yes, even if the word count is 101. ;). Title not included.

~Five Hundred Word Prose
Also self explanatory. Prose entries 500 words or under, not including title. Anything over 500 words will be axed from the competition. Yes, I'm unforgiving!

~Haiku and Tanka
As popular forms of poetry, these two get their own category. I'm going to be flexible here, and say that the five-seven-five format is not rigid, you can add a syllable or two here or there (haiku wasn't meant for the english language after all), but try not to over-do it. The short-longer-short line style needs to be there.

~Free Poetry
Poetry in any form -or formlessness- you like, minus haiku and tanka which should and will be put in their particular category. Please keep your poem under 30 lines, stanza breaks not included. ;)



Well! That gets the meat of the business out of the way. To enter the contest just PM your entry to me, Quiet Man Cometh, with the entry title and category in the PM heading. That makes things easy to sort for me. :). You can pic any topic you like, it's all fair game, but keep in mind that anything fanfiction related (unless it's *Trisphee fanfiction :D) runs the risk of not being understood and I'm not going to research piles of information in order to understand a story. You can add footnotes or a *tiny* introduction if you like, but it's best if you can keep all your content that's important to the story, in the story. And don't forget, punctuation and spelling counts! Good luck!

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~Rules~
Oh yes, there are rules!

Rule number one, you may not use the same poem or piece of prose for multiple categories.
Rule number two, you may enter only once per category, and with only one account. No using mules to enter more than once.
Rules Number 3, no entries after the deadline. Deadline is the end of the event, (June 15th) Pacific time (my time).

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~Prizes~
There are prizes too!

For each category:
1st - 3000 au and the event bundle of your choice.
2nd - 1000 au
3rd - 500 au

As well as 25 Anka tokens for entering.

The Winners!!

Free Poetry

1st. Umaeril
2nd. Kaderin Triste
3rd. Merr

Haiku

1st. Kaderin Triste
2nd. Merr
3rd. fauxreal

100 Word Prose

1st. Lucid
2nd. Numb
3rd. Umaeril

500 WP

1st. Lucid
2nd. Umaeril

(only two entries)

I may just have to try some of these.
-gets excited-

Oh please do!

And I guess I can mention that the thread isn't formal. People can natter as they like about the contest or writing in general or the fact that they got three gold ribbons! *cheers*

I'm not sure if I'm allowed too
owo;

I don't see why not, since I'm not really part of the writers anymore..
I'll ask fenfen later
But before the end of the event I might just enter all of them
-bwahahah

Fun it by fen. The only snag might be if we do a staff vote, which isn't decided yet. If that's the case, then I'd say you just don't get to vote :p.

I'd say I wouldn't get to vote for MINE
xD

but I could vote for others

//at least that sounds fair in my mind
owo;

*is already coming up with ideas; this will be fun!*

yay, Rinni!

That is fair in a way if you want to judge, but it does give everyone else a wee big of an edge. But really it all depends on where the picks fall.

Ohhh....not fair! Why did you have to make Tanka and Haiku just one category?
*pouts*

That means I have to try to decide which one to enter...
And I have to try and decide what other poem to use for the "free poem" section as well.
XD

Being similar as they are, they get their own category, but if you can find a way to work a haiku or tanka style into a piece of longer poetry, that could be considered for free poem.

Free poem is anything. It can be formed poetry like sonnets or limericks, free verse, or patterns you invent on the spot.

I do know what free poem means, but thanks.

And alas, your suggestion for the tanka/haiku problem I am having cannot be fixed by working one into a free-poem for that category as I already have a couple of poems that I'm debating for that category as well.

Ah. Well, I'll keep on eye on that and see if the one entry per category limit starts causing problems. That's always one of the snags when dealing with writing contests and such. What piece do you send?

I'm still debating for my haiku/tanka entry, but I think I have decided, and am about to send in my free poem one.
After staring at it, wondering why the flow wasn't right, I made a small line shift and realized it is now perfect.
^_^

Wow, that was fast! The event is hardly moving yet.