Halloween Poetry Contest: Announcing the 2010 Halloween Poetry Contest...

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Announcing the 2010 Halloween Poetry Contest...

...that's write! This is the "by-popular-demand" RETURN OF THE HALLOWEEN POETRY CONTEST...now that's scary!! Rules to enter are below right. Poems from last year's contest are posted below. And, as entries come in for the 2010 HPC, they will be placed above this message...SPOOKY!!! Vote for your favorite entry to win by commenting.

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Robert WilsonOctober 15, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Damn I wanted to enter a prose poem. Maybe I can cook something up if my damn ear quits hurting...
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Don Kingfisher CampbellOctober 24, 2010 at 2:51 PM
It can still be a prose poem, just a narrow one (three words per line and one four).
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Rules for 2010 Halloween Poetry Contest

PREMISE: Submit a 10 line poem with a grand total of 31 words (any number of words per line as long as the total number of words in the poem is 31, stanza breaks count as lines) that fits any of the themes listed below by 10-29-10 with an electronic payment of $10.31 via http://paypal.com to kingfisher1031@charter.net (paste poem into message box or send in a separate email). If your poem is chosen the winner you get 100.31% of the contest money submitted.

EVERYONE WHO ENTERS AND EVERYONE WHO COMMENTS ON ALL ENTRIES will receive a chapbook featuring all of the poems entered in the contest. All entrants will be invited to read their poems and the winner will be announced on 10-30-10 between 3 and 5pm inside the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd. (then afterwards on this website).

THEMES: Poem must be abhorrent, abominable, alarming, appalling, apparitional, awful, batlike, beastly, bizarre, blood-curdling, boney, cadaverous, catlike, chilling, Chuckyesque, clownish, corpselike, crawly, creepy, cruel, dangerous, dastardly, deadly, deathlike, detestable, devilish, diabolical, disagreeable, disgusting, disquieting, disturbing, Dracularian, dreadful, eerie, fantastic, fearful, fearsome, Frankensteinish, frightening, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-raising, haunted, headless, heinous, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrifying, illusory, insubstantial, Jack O'Lanterny, knifelike, loathsome, lurid, maniacal, macabre, magical, moony, morbid, mummyesque, murderous, mysterious, nightmarish, ominous, owlish, pale, perilous, petrifying, phantasmal, Potterish, preternatural, pumpkinated, revolting, Samheinesque, scary, shadowy, sharp, shocking, skeletonic, spiritual, spooky, spectral, spidery, spine-chilling, strange, supernatural, superstitious, terrible, terrifying, traumatic, treacherous, unearthly, unhealthy, unnatural, unnerving, unsound, warlock-laden, weird, wicked, willies-inducing, witchy, wolflike, wraithlike, and/or wraithy.

ALTERNATE PAYMENT METHOD: If you have trouble using PayPal, email me at kingfisher1031@charter.net for a mailing address to send in payment by either check or money order for your emailed entry.

VOTING: Positive comments on each poem will be a 100.31% factor in choosing the winning poem. So tell your friends to comment...limit one comment per person per poem. Deadline to make a comment is 10:31am PST on 10/30/09. Oh, and you'll need to sign up with Google in order to be able to make comments, but that's totally free and it also enables you to create your own Blogger websites (which this is), utterly free as well.

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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Announcing the 2010 Halloween Poetry Contest...

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