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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

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

National Poetry Month Completion Thread



Finished 30 poems!

Garden Club Completion Thread



Finished 30 comments!

Poem a Day Completion Thread



Finished 30 poems for each day!

Relic Poet Completion Thread - A Poet's Universe



Finished A Poet's Universe!

Prompt Master Completion Thread



Finished 30 prompts!

Reserving this space:

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


Garden Comments - Completed

My contests I want to Accomplish

Poem a Day - doneish



NaPo Contest - Done



Relic Challenge A Poet's Universe - Done



Prompt Master - DONE



Garden Club - DONE!

National Poetry Month Completion



I did it!

Here are my poems for National Poetry Month Competition: