Contests Thread

Welcome to the Contest Thread for the 2017 NaPo event.

This thread will contain the different contests through which you may be awarded a badge. To participate in any particular contest or challenge follow the instructions for that post. Each post is laid out with a brief introduction, a list of the rules, and closing requirements. If you have questions about these rules or requirements, ask.

You can ask right in this thread and most of these challenges require you post when you complete your challenge in this thread as well.

If you would like to, you can claim space and update your post to complete your list right in this thread, or you can post your list after you finish all at once. As long as one of the poetry moderators is alerted when you finish your challenge so we can award your badge, it doesn't matter how you collect your results.

Add A Contest

If you have a contest that you would like to add along with a reward you would like to provide, add the contest to the thread. To add a contest, write an introduction, a list of requirements, and instructions to prove they completed the contest, and post it!

*Badges will not be added for additional contests, only the contests listed in the index will have badges as prizes, however, gifts, points, and other YWS perks are free game just like in the Contests forum.

Index

• Badges
• Poem a Day
• National Poetry Month Completion
• Garden Club Contest
• Prompt Master Contest
• Relic Poet

The following badges can be earned through participation in the 2017 April event of National Poetry Month.

Poem a Day - Write a poem a day in April


National Poetry Month Completion - Write 30 poems in April


Garden Club - Comment 30 times in different NaPo journals


Prompt Master - Complete the prompts


Relic Poet - Complete a previous NaPo event

Poem a Day Challenge

This is a 30 poems in 30 days challenge. The goal is to write a poem a day. While you're not limited to writing only one poem a day, only one poem each day will count. Poems need to be completed on different calendar days, but a little bit of fudging is allowed as long as the majority are completed throughout the month on separate days.

In order to complete this challenge you must:

• Write 30 Poems
• Write one Poem a Day
• Write for 30 days
• Compose a list of the 30 poems and post them here in this thread

If you complete all of these requirements, post in this thread with a link or a list of the poems.

National Poetry Month Completion

Write 30 poems within the month of April. Your accomplishment is admirable! Mostly this is for people who like to write a bunch of poems all in a few nights to get to that magic number 30! You could be a binge writer, or just have had an off week and lost the chance to do the Poem a Day challenge, but as long as you have 30 poems within April, and you can link to them, you can get this badge.

In order to complete this challenge you must:

• Write 30 poems
• In the month of April
• Provide a list of links to the 30 poems

If you complete all of these requirements, post in this thread with the list to the poems whether they're jammed into a WFP or all across the internet.

Garden Club Contest

This is a challenge to compliment or comment on 30 poems in 30 days. The goal is to spread goodwill and cheer throughout the different NaPo threads, and let people know you're reading their work! It's always encouraging to know people are interested.

To get full points, you will need to comment in unique threads. That means you cannot just go stalk your friend's single thread and comment on each of their poems. Yes, it's 30 comments, but it's not spreading enough cheer. Instead, you have to go to at least 10 threads to comment. This could mean you comment in 10 threads but the 10th thread has 21 comments, or that you spread it out like you should, and each thread gets 3 comments a piece, or that you go above and beyond and do one comment on 30 different threads.

No matter what the order or number in unique threads, as long as you comment in at least 10 different threads, and you have at least 30 different comments from April, you can get this badge.

In order to complete this challenge you must:

• Comment in other people's threads 30 times
• Comment in at least 10 unique threads
• Collect 30 of your compliments/comments and post links to them in this thread
• Write these posts within April

If you complete all these requirements, post in this thread with a list of links to those compliments.

Prompt Master Contest

Use prompts listed in [prompt thread] to create 30 poems. Prompts must be from at least 10 unique sources, meaning 5 different contests, websites, or sources, and must be completed within April.

The idea of this is to use your current and past resources to set up a prompt challenge for yourself. There are plenty of prompts for your perusal and if a certain site doesn't suit your fancy, choose a different site. You must show us where you got the prompt and the results of that prompt in order for the poem to count, but otherwise, it's free game.

A source is unique if you have not used it before to generate/use/create a prompt. This means that if you use something like an "... of the day" challenge from Iggy's previous event, you cannot use another post from that thread and consider it a unique source. You can, however, use a different prompt challenge from the past and consider that a unique source if you haven't used it before.

In order to complete this challenge you must:

• Use 30 prompts
• Use 10 unique sources
• List and link the prompt and resulting poem in a post in this thread
• In the month of April

Post lists with what source you used, and what poem you created in this thread to get awarded the badge.

Relic Poet

Have you seen a contest that you are sad isn't running this year? You can still compete. Follow the old thread's prompts/instructions, and you can get a Relic Badge for completing the challenge. The challenges must have been run on YWS during NaPo for a badge reward.

You cannot mix and match challenges in order to get this badge. You must run as much of a challenge as is available. If a challenge is incomplete due to being incomplete by the host, you must do as much as you can of it, and turn in those results.

To find old challenges, check out the Prompts thread.

In order to complete this challenge you must:

• Follow the instructions of the previous event
• Announce what event you'll be doing
• Post a linked list of your results
• Complete the challenge in April

In order to get this badge you must list the challenge you're doing, link to that challenge, and do whatever the challenge requires of you to tell us you completed the challenge.

Lumi's Log:
Poem-A-Day Challenge & NaPo Completion Challenge

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4/1 giraffe breath
4/2 twilight acrylic
4/3 base jump
4/4 pipe dream
4/5 sinking luminaries
4/6 brief spot
4/7 pavlov | angel in the shallows
4/8 ratatoskr
4/9 echo
4/10 artistic death
4/11 buzz
4/12 day twelve haiku
4/13 river stones
4/14 the train still comes
4/15 macallen
4/16 what a wonderful love i've found
4/17 tomatoes
4/18 curtains
4/19 trust
4/20 from atlantic to pacific, the traffic is terrific
4/21 a cold and a broken hallelujah
4/22 heracles
4/23 a great vacation
4/24 solomon
4/25 the giving tree
4/26 seattle
4/27 the flautist
4/28 pound of flesh
4/29 choir boy
4/30 walk away; recover

Steggy's Stuff for Poem-A-Day Challenge:

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National Poetry Month Completion Thread

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1.) Masquerade

2.) Coarse Sands

3.) wallflower

4.) Autumn

5.) Blackberry Winter

6.) Infinitesimal

7.) Mangrove Forest

8.) Icarus

9.) Usurpant

10.) Jaded

11.) Ashen Swan

12.) sapphire fireflies

13.) shipwrecked

14.) rosewood

15.) East of Eden, West of Sweden

16.) Demeter

17.) flask/he loved/the grave

18.) Calico

19.) Nightingale

20.) chakras

21.) closure

22.) Bonfire

23.) loose change

24.) exodus

25.) dog days

26.) slumber

27.) porcelain

28.) Erie

29.) cheyenne

30.) Lazarus

Finished 30 poems!

Garden Club Completion Thread

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1.) cocoa hands

2.) walk away; recover;

3.) war-torn, lovestruck

4.) This Is Not A Poem

5.) Drought

6.) lizz's lyrical landing

7.) the laws of coming and going

8.) honeymoon vibes

9.) you know what this is Discussion

10.) walk away; recover;

11.) the laws of coming and going

12.) I'm going to shave a dog and name it Bruce

13.) Into the Stars

14.) How to Deal with the Buzzards Poking At Your Eyes

15.) kintsugi - a call to arms

16.) buried under the coffee table

17.) merlot footnotes

18.) kintsugi - a call to arms

19.) Sadbox

20.) as the rain patters on the roof

21.) Vaseline Farmers

22.) dreaming & eating

23.) you know what this is Discussion

24.) kintsugi - a call to arms

25.) the entire history of human desire takes 70 minutes to tell

26.) traveler with a broken heart

27.) I'd hate to think I'm missing out

28.) a girl swallows a lunar eclipse

29.) a tarot spread for nonbelievers

30.) evanescence

Finished 30 comments!

Poem a Day Completion Thread

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1.) Coarse Sands

2.) Infinitesimal

3.) Icarus

4.) Jaded

5.) Demeter

6.) Nightingale

7.) loose change

8.) exodus

9.) porcelain

10.) Photograph

11.) Hemlock

12.) Uvula Moon

13.) Mid-July

14.) seaweed hands

15.) smile for you

16.) pinnacle

17.) dishwater

18.) fairisle sweater

19.) fluent in//broken hearts//breaking hearts

20.) The End

21.) chronic sunshine

22.) showerhead

23.) famine

24.) summer is

25.) reap what you sow

26.) petals

27.) Sanguine

28.) infatuation

29.) Dear Society

30.) Collage

Finished 30 poems for each day!

Relic Poet Completion Thread - A Poet's Universe

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1.) Maudlin

2.) Dusk

3.) Uvula Moon

4.) Nymph

5.) Callisto

6.) Mid-July

7.) Craft

Finished A Poet's Universe!

Prompt Master Completion Thread

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1.) Masquerade - Shadow Poetry, Haiku

2.) Coarse Sands - Shadow Poetry, Ghazal

3.) Usurpant - Shadow Poetry, Pantoum

4.) An Ashen Swan - Shadow Poetry, Rondeau

5.) Nightingale - Jam Prompt 4/6

6.) chakras - Jam Prompt 4/6

7.) Closure - Jam Prompt 4/6

8.) Bonfire - Jam Prompt 4/6

9.) exodus - Jam Prompt 4/8

10.) cheyenne - Jam Prompt 4/9 by Castor

11.) Lazarus - Shadow Poetry, Villanelle

12.) bulletproof - Jam Prompt 4/9 by Lumi

13.) Antique - Prompt gifted by Gringoamericano

14.) Daydream - Writers Digest, Rondel

15.) Fireplace - Jam Prompt 4/10

16.) Photograph - Jam Prompt 4/10

17.) Miscreant - Gifted by Alliyah

18.) Maudlin - A Poet's Universe, 2008

19.) Dusk - A Poet's Universe, Poem Rewrite (2/7)

20.) Uvula Moon - A Poet's Universe, Line Collage (3/7)

21.) Nymph - A Poet's Universe, Unusual Job (4/7)

22.) Callisto - A Poet's Universe, Names (5/7)

23.) Mid-July - A Poet's Universe, Sizing Down (6/7)

24.) Craft - A Poet's Universe, Sonnenizio (7/7)

25.) I hate the music//I hate the silence - Jam Prompt 4/13

26.) Promises//Detonated Roses - Jam Prompt 4/13

27.) Wreckage - Writers Forward, Boat underneath darkening skies

28.) Metamorphosis - LitBridge, Positive transformation

29.) Kudzu - NaPo Music Jam, Alibi by Dessa

30.) Thirst - NaPo Music Jam, Stone Wall Stone Fence by Gregory and the Hawks

Finished 30 prompts!

Reserving this space:

Poem-A-Day-Challenge & 30 Poems - Completed

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The Thread: a collage of mismatched contemplations
1. (4/1) a collage of mismatched contemplations
2. (4/2) a collage of mismatched contemplations
3. (4/3) a collage of mismatched contemplations
4. (4/4) a collage of mismatched contemplations
5. (4/5) a collage of mismatched contemplations
6. (4/6) a collage of mismatched contemplations
7. (4/7) a collage of mismatched contemplations
8. (4/8) a collage of mismatched contemplations
9. (4/9) a collage of mismatched contemplations
10. (4/10) a collage of mismatched contemplations
11. (4/11) a collage of mismatched contemplations
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19. (4/19) a collage of mismatched contemplations
20. (4/20) a collage of mismatched contemplations
21. (4/21) a collage of mismatched contemplations
22. (4/22) a collage of mismatched contemplations
23. (4/23) a collage of mismatched contemplations
24. (4/24) a collage of mismatched contemplations
25. (4/25) I'm counting this extra one from the 23rd:
a collage of mismatched contemplations
26. (4/26) a collage of mismatched contemplations
27. (4/27) a collage of mismatched contemplations
28. (4/28) a collage of mismatched contemplations
29. (4/29) a collage of mismatched contemplations
30. (4/30) a collage of mismatched contemplations

Garden Comments - Completed

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1. Comment for Nikayla a bucolic meadow
2. Comment for Nikayla (2) a bucolic meadow
3. Comment for TheSilverFox How to Deal with the Buzzards Poking at Your Eyes
4. Comment for PrincessInk Inkstand Musings
5. Comment for Elizabeth lizz's lyrical landing
6. Comment for Falconer evanescence
7. Comment for TriSARAHtops In transit
8. Comment for tgirly Working Titles and Ink Stains
9. Comment for hexglass cocoa hands
10. Comment for Sonder you are here
11. Comment for BlueAfrica cemeteries and old trees
12.Comment for RoseandThorn Pillow Fights and Kaleidoscopes
13. Comment for Cadi Cadi's Caterwaulings
14.Comment for Sachiko a tarot spread for nonbelievers
15. Comment for PrincessInk (2) Inkstand Musings
16. Comment for Aley Into the Stars
17. Comment for Nikayla (3) a bucolic meadow
18. Comment for Apricity kintsugi ~ a call to arms
19. Comment for LadyLizz (2) lizz's lyrical landing
20. Comment for beckiw Vaseline Farmers
21. Commetn for tgirly (2) Working Titles and Ink Stains
22. Comment for Lumi walk away; recover;
23. Comment for Stella bedside manner
24. Comment for Demeter merlot footnotes
25. Comments for niteowl buried under the coffee table
26.Comment for Sonder (2) you are here
27. Comment for Morrigan spectral canyon
28. Comment for LadySpark the entire history of human desire takes 70 minutes to tell
29. Comment for Steggy/Dino reckless history
30. Comment for Nikayla (4) a bucolic meadow

My contests I want to Accomplish

Poem a Day - doneish

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1. Into the Stars
2. Into the Stars
3. Into the Stars
4. Into the Stars
5. Into the Stars
6. Into the Stars
7. Into the Stars
8. Into the Stars
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16. Into the Stars
17. Into the Stars
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20. Into the Stars
21. Into the Stars
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25. Into the Stars
26. Into the Stars
27. Into the Stars
28. Into the Stars
29. Into the Stars
30. Into the Stars

NaPo Contest - Done

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1. Relationship
2. Raindrops
3. The Silver Beast
4. My Throat is an Example of Igneous Rock
5. Morose 5 Lines
6. You Were Mine
7. The Day Will Come When You Don't Know Me
8. Broken Memories of Happy Times
9. Creating Art
10. The Interview Call
11. The Tutor
12. Flamingo
13. The Regal Beast
14. Baby Pictures
15. Moments Gone
16. [The spring lie, it's warm]
17. Unused Farm Field
18. Taking it Back one Bank at a Time
19. The Court Date
20. In the Witness of a Farmer's Hut, a Huntsman Discovers Humanity
21. The Siren's Call
22. Poem of the day
23. [We are drifting]
24. When Out Hiking
25. ... Ever After"
26. The Limit of My Patience is Quickly Waning
27. 2008
28. [I'm still not used to my dark green name]
29. [The Pacific is Falling]
30. Running out of Time

Relic Challenge A Poet's Universe - Done

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1. Into the Stars
2. Into the Stars
3. Into the Stars
4. Into the Stars
5. Into the Stars
6. Into the Stars
7. Into the Stars

Prompt Master - DONE

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1. A Poet's Universe - 2008 Into the Stars
2. A Poet's Universe - Into the Stars
3. A Poet's Universe - Into the Stars

4. Shadow Poetry - Nonet Into the Stars
5. Shadow Poetry - Minute Poetry Into the Stars
6. Shadow Poetry - Kyrielle Into the Stars

7. Jam Prompts 4/6 Into the Stars
8. Jam Prompts 4/6 Into the Stars
9. Jam Prompts 4/6 Into the Stars

10. Jam Nikayla 4/9 Into the Stars
11. Jam Nikayla 4/9 Into the Stars

12. Poetry Soup - Fibonacci Into the Stars
13. Poetry Soup - Idyll Into the Stars
14. Poetry Soup - Diminished Hexaverse Into the Stars

15. Newman Young Writers Award - Jueju Into the Stars

16. Scar Jam - Into the Stars
17. Scar Jam - Into the Stars
18. Scar Jam - Into the Stars

19. Google Images - Into the Stars
20. Google Images - Into the Stars
21. Google Images - posting.php?mode=reply&f=196&t=106817

22. Desk Items - Into the Stars
23. Desk Items - Into the Stars
24. Desk Items - Into the Stars
25. Desk Items - Into the Stars

26. 30 Days of Prompts - Into the Stars
27. 30 Days of Prompts - Into the Stars
28. 30 Days of Prompts - posting.php?mode=reply&f=196&t=106817
29. 30 Days of Prompts - Into the Stars
30. 30 Days of Prompts - Into the Stars

Garden Club - DONE!

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1. Nikayla a bucolic meadow
2. honeymoon honeymoon vibes
3. Rosendorn you and me and the dark make light
4. bluewaterlily the girl with the origami heart
5. TriSARAHtops In transit
6. Falconer evanescence
7. LadySpark the entire history of human desire takes 70 minutes to tell
8. Ink Inkstand Musings
9. Castor let us fall into the abyss
10. Rydia Rydia's Requiem
11. spectator april poetry
12. Soundofmind fork
13. KaBooomm April crammed into 10 days
14. Alliyah a collage of mismatched contemplations
15. Alliyah a collage of mismatched contemplations
16. Sonder you are here
17. Nikayla a bucolic meadow
18. Nikayla a bucolic meadow
19. Nikayla a bucolic meadow
20. Nikayla a bucolic meadow
21. niteowl buried under the coffee table
22. Nikayla a bucolic meadow
23. niteowl buried under the coffee table
24. niteowl buried under the coffee table
25. Nikayla a bucolic meadow
26. Nikayla a bucolic meadow
27. Nikayla a bucolic meadow
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