2014 Hearth and Home Contest: Closed

   Just to say the word
home, that one word alone,
   so pleasantly cool

 - Kobayashi Issa


As the season draws closer to solstice we find ourselves spending more time indoors appreciating the comforts of home.  Pull up a chair next to the hearth (or a/c for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere) and tell us about yours.



Select a Prompt

Write about your home
Write about a memory tied to your home
Write about your ideal home
Write about what makes a home, home



Rules

Write an original poem using an Eastern poetry form of your choice. Your poem should follow the style and structure guidelines for the chosen form. Remember to mention the form you chose and include a reference to this contest and journal entry in your deviation comments. Then submit your deviation to our 2014 Events gallery. If accepted it will be added to the contest collection and journal. One entry per contest, please.

If you have not participated in a contest here before please consider starting now. We are here to cultivate and encourage each other while having fun!  Check out our Events Board for information on current and upcoming activities.



Deadline

All entries must be received by January 1st!



Get Involved

Help us publicize the Club, our events, and our members.

• Mention our events in your journals and our contest news article.
• Include the-beastie's beautiful stamp, or RedDragonfly's wonderful plz version (haikuplz/haikuplz2), in your deviation comments and journals to show support for the Club!
• Share our homepage and event journals on your preferred social media portals.
• Suggest entries for Daily Deviations and Daily Lit Deviations.
• Use ProjectComment's Commenter System to request feedback on your work.
• Read ProjectComment's Guide to Commenting and Comment Pointers to learn how to leave more constructive commentary.
• Use dALinkSystem's Link System User Guide to share deviations by other artists in your artist's comment box.

Entries

• where she is jabjong by haijinik
• Romancing the Romantic kyoka by betwixtthepages
• home tanka by cattservant
• Home haibun by elliotbuttons
• Evergreen tanka by RedDragonfly
• where my heart is haiku by prettyflour
• the wheel turns haiku by saiun
• Heirloom haiku by hopeburnsblue

Remember to give them some love!



Judges
   

If you are interested in being a judge for this contest let us know.
Volunteering as a judge earns you Contributor status.



Prizes

Winner will receive:

• A small 11x8 cm notebook for jotting down Eastern poetry contributed by Formel
• Two poetry books-Loop by Anne Simpson (Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian Winner 2004), and processional by Anne Compton; winner of a Governor General's Literary Award, contributed by somnomollior

The top three selections will receive:

• Contributor status
• A feature and news article by the-haiku-club
• A feature and a postcard from Las Vegas by RedDragonfly
• A feature by saiun

All entrants will be added to the quarterly prize drawing.  Completing challenge goals and working with under-represented forms counts double.  On January 1st, 2015 a winner will be randomly drawn and given the choice of either:

• The Haiku Handbook by William J. Higginson


• Five T'ang Poets by David Young (Translator)

If you are willing to contribute prizes for this contest let us know.
Offering a prize earns you Contributor status.