The results of =Mattiello's Betterment for Humanity contest are out: [link]

First Place =cxsankh for Who are you?

Second Place =iAes for The Last Smile on Earth

Third Place *tonks204 for Betterment of humanity

Congratulations to these and the other winners!

Meanwhile, my contests are still open, so keep at it, everyone.

This week:

• The results of the second weekly contest are out.
  
• There is yet another weekly contest opened.
  
• The Mini Chapbook Contest is now OPEN!
  
• And you can still register to write a poem a day.

• April: Chapbooks and Poetic Responses (Contests)
  
• Walking in April and other poetic fun (Contests)
  
• The Mini Chapbook Contest and Animal Voices (Contests)
  
• Writing Letters and Mini Chapbooks (Contests)


Interviews:

• Interview with a rising poet, *TheObviousChild
  
• Interview with a haijin: *Laurence55



Results of Week Two

The winners are ~orphicfiddler for Contemplations, and ~AmunDei for Definition of life.

~orphicfiddler and ~AmunDei win a 3-month subscription each and a spot in my journal.

Honourable mentions:

A small revelation by ~Amy--Louise
Topography by `PinkyMcCoversong

Congratulations! And thank you for judging, `AbCat.




Week Four: Dear XYZ - Contest

Write a poem as a letter to someone.


• Post your poem as a new scrap or deviation.
  
• Send me (^lovetodeviate) a link to the poem in a note titled "LETTER".
  
  
• Deadline: midnight April 28 (GMT)
  
• Prizes: Two 3-month subs and a journal feature from ^lovetodeviate
  
• Judge: ^lovetodeviate


Entries so far:

Letter Day 25 by `Beccalicious
April 17, 1943 by *Clippers0507
Dear Mom by ~Cybby
Deerlodge by *fllnthblnk
Dear My Confessor by =Flynn-the-cat
Safe Flight by *GaioumonBatou
Antelope Valley by *jade-pandora
Dear M by ~isabellakay
Good Bye by =lbchef
Upon turning twenty by *poisonedrose
Old World by *story
my dear by ~twilight-cat
Dear Old Friend by ~wawy2006

Please note that you don't have to register to write a poem a day to take part in these contests, but it's great fun if you do.



The Mini Chapbook Contest - OPEN!

One of my favourite pastimes involves playing around with my poetry, arranging them in sequence, dreaming about how it would if I had a collection published...

So I thought it would be fun to have a mini chapbook contest. Not only is it fun, it also "will be good training for everyone in thinking of how their poems can relate to each other and build up into something greater than the sum of their parts," as the contest judge said. This should be good practice for anyone with plans to arrange a chapbook or full-fledged poetry collection in the future.


• Pick a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 poems from your April poetry collection.
  
• You can edit and revise the poem using the Literature Workshop or any of the critique clubs on deviantART. The more revision, the better.
  
• Arrange them in a sequence that makes sense to you.
  
• Give your chapbook a title.
  
• Submit ALL your poems in one deviation. The title of the deviation should be the title of your chapbook. This deviation goes under the category: Contests & Projects --> Contests --> 2008 --> Mini Chapbook Contest.
  
• You can also submit your chapbook as a .pdf under the same category.
  
• If you have any doubts, please note me (^lovetodeviate).


Deadline: midnight May 7 (GMT)

Prizes: $50 and $25 deviantDOLLARS, and best of all, the top two mini chapbooks will get published online in the roundtable review

Judge: Editor of the roundtable review, ~jack-cade

Judging criteria:

• Overall quality of the poems
  
• How naturally and sensibly the collection develops certain themes and ideas (whether to do with form or content) without requiring an explanation
  
• Sequencing
  
• Anything that makes the collection stand out



“In April, in April,/ My one love came along,/ And I ran the slope of my high hill/ To follow a thread of song." - Dorothy Parker



Write a poem a day!

It's fun and just look at all the people that have already decided to give it a go:
Head Count = 89

To join in, all you need to do is


• Note me with a yes and I will add you to my journal list. The subject line should be "REGISTER". Or you can simply reply to this journal with a yes. You can join late, no problem.
  
• Write a poem a day and try to post them as a scrap or deviation. You can be late, sure, but at the end of April you should have 30 poems posted.
  
• This is not necessary, but it would be great if you kept a journal with links to the poems you wrote in April for reference.



Other Fun Stuff



Contests/Workshops: Forbidden Love Contest | `Jon-Law's Workshop: Humerus Isn't A Bone. (Get it? Bone?) | Polish that Poetry and Prose! | The Solidarity Contest!

Deltabeta Holds Contest of Poetry Poetical Madness | MIMESIS Digital Chapbook Initiative: Competition! | Funny Poetry Competition | The Betterment For Humanity Contest | Haikudoing!?! What is this? A CONTEST! | Ahoy! Winners for the March Limerick Contest!

Projects: April - Tanka Month! | Applause for April! | Poets Helping Poets | Poetry Feature 56 | Love Poetry? Find Your Place. | Let's not forget prose, especially because *WordCount has done a fantastic job of bringing yet another feature out: Great Prose Exposed: WordCount Feature #9 | | Holy Crap!

Journals: April Awareness!!!

Polls: What Makes a Good Pocket Poem?

Forum threads: April is the cruelist month | Can you write the worst poem ever written? | What Poems Made You Get Into Writing? | Ending a poem with a rhetorical question-

Publishing: Poets: New poetry magazine seeks submissions | Semaphore Magazine



Aditi's April Poems

April 1: Mani, the construction worker | April 2: The song that I came to sing | April 3: A book, late at night | April 4: Once I woke up at dawn. | April 5: Iris and the sun | | April 6: Season Haiku | April 7: For Govind | April 8: Dear Ragini | April 9: Return to Mamoon in a dream | April 10: On a beach, one afternoon | April 11: An adventure | April 12: The man selling honey and the night sky | April 13: Contemplating sex | April 14: Mrs Tiwary| April 15: Summer shrapnel | April 16: Birds in dawn | April 17: A man at the window | April 18: Naina | April 19: Retour | April 20: According to Prabhu | April 21: Waiting| April 22: Eternity| April 23: Insomnia | April 24: The heirloom | April 25: The photographer | April 26: The photographer by the river | April 27: The photographer at a campsite | April 28: Post-love | April 29: Racing haiku | April 30: My husband



"I like people that come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do." - Lillian Gish



The Mini Crit Contest

To keep critique alive, I'm running a mini contest. The prizes are a print worth $25 from ^GeneratingHype and a one year dA subscription from *tightwhitepants. This is not a Poetry Month and is open to both prose and poetry.



• You keep looking out for good critics. They can be old or new, famous or unknown. I only ask that they be currently active in the crit field on deviantART. You can nominate yourself for the prize, if you like.
  
• Once you find someone who you think deserves the prize, send me a note with a link to one or more of their critiques on deviantART. Please make sure that these critiques have been posted in the year 2008 and not before that. Also, put "CRITIC" in the subject line of your note.
  
• There is no deadline for this. I will keep updating the list of people suggested in my journal. When I find my winner, I will send them a note, and we will start the mini contest over.


Entries so far:
[link] by *Barnaby (suggested by *Negated)
[link] by ~pro-nunc

• Mood
  • Poetic?
• Listening to
  • Annie Lennox
    Why
• Watching
  • TV
    Talented Mr Ripley
• Drinking
  • Tea
    and sometimes coffee