Hello and welcome to the Leprechaun Literary Haiku Throwdown. Sullivan McPig of Pearls Cast Before a McPig and I decided to join forces and put together an epic haiku contest.
To enter the contest write a haiku about a book series or character that you love.
Example of an entry:
One ring to rule them
A hobbit stands in the way
Watch out for Gollum
Haiku about The Lord of the Ring books
My email or way to contact me: LeprechaunLiteraryHaikuThrowdown@gmail dot com
There will be an overall grand prize winner from both blogs and then a runner up from each blog.
The prizes are:
Grand Prize Winner: $30 to The Book Depository, 3 books of your choice from Candlemark & Gleam, a choice of Marcella Burnard’s books either Enemy Within or Enemy Games.
Runner up 1: $10 to The Book Depository, 2 books of your choice from Candlemark & Gleam, choice of one of Jeffe Kennedy's ebooks
Runner up 2: $10 to The Book Depository, 2 books of your choice from Candlemark & Gleam, ebook of Rewrite Redemption by J.H. Walker
* Contest open to US and International, if you enter the contest make sure that The Book Depository ships to where you live. You can check that here.
Rules
1.) Haikus must be in 5-7-5 form.
2.) One entry allowed per blog.
3.)
Write your haiku along with your name email address in the comments.
If you don't want to leave your email address leave your Twitter, or
Facebook details. Just make sure I'm able to contact you to let you
know that you've won.
4.)
You don't have to follow either blog to win, but feel free to follow if
you like what you see and leave any comments on reviews or posts that
you find interesting. :)
5.) The contest will run from March 17th-31st.
Judges for the contest:
Me (@GeckyBoz)
@SullivanMcPig
DizzyC,
aka Carol lives in East Anglia, England with her husband and 3
children. Formerly a Teaching Assistant she is currently a stay at home
mum. She fills any spare time reading and book blogging . Her blog's
called Dizzy C's Little Book Blog.
@parrishlatern from The Parrish Lantern. He has an interesting post about haikus that can be found here.
* Thanks to everybody that donated prizes. :)
The post must get through
ReplyDeleteThe con must bluff and deceive
Lipwig wins the day.
GOING POSTAL by Terry Pratchett
Mary Preston
marypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Impulsive and wild
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No matter the cost
Mind Games by Kiersten White
titania86[at]yahoo.com
Katniss and Peeta
ReplyDeleteTributes of District Thirteen
Beat the Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
Mel S
notanotherbookblog(at)hotmail(dot)co(dot)uk
Once upon a time
ReplyDeleteA princess became a frog
When she kissed the prince
E.D. Baker - The Frog Princess
books_r_gr8 (at) hotmail (dot) com
Thanks for all the haikus so far everybody :)
ReplyDeleteHaiku - John Cooper Clarke
ReplyDeleteTo convey one's mood
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic
That's an awesome haiku. :)
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