Announcing: The official opening of my 1st Annual Haiku* for the Holidays Contest!The grand prize (ok, really it’s more like a stocking stuffer) will be a $10 iTunes or Starbucks gift card.
Here’s how to play…
InfiniteQueso’s 1st Annual Haiku for the Holidays Contest Rules:
- All entries must follow haiku form: 17 syllables in three lines—5 in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third.
- Bonus points will be awarded for adherence to traditional Japanese style and nuance. For more information, read here.
- All haiku must be related to the theme of “The Holidays”. Feel free to interpret that as you wish.
- Judging will be based on creativity, insight, depth, and/or humor.
- All entries must be clean! No vulgarity or cursing. Any entry violating this rule will be deleted.
- All entries must be an original composition of the entrant.
- All entrants must reveal their identities. Anonymous entries will not be eligible for the grand prize. (If you don’t have a Google or Blogger account, feel free to just include your name in the body of your comment.)
- There is no limit to the number of entries a contestant may submit.
- All entries must be posted in the comments section of this post by midnight (CST) on Saturday, December 12, 2009.
- Finalists will be announced in a new post on Sunday, December 13, 2009.
- The grand prize winner will be selected from among the finalists by a public vote. The polls will close at midnight (CST) on Wednesday, December 16, 2009.
- The grand prize winner will be announced on Thursday, December 17, 2009.
I’ll leave you with a haiku of my own:
some read the rules, think
steph has too much time on hands
or maybe just: “dork”
Facebook readers: Click here to post your entry on the InfiniteQueso website.
* I realize many of the entries in this contest will technically be senryu. However “Senryu for the Season” didn’t quite have the same accessibility as “Haiku for the Holidays”. My apologies to purists.
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