A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
Well, that said, heres the rules:
1) The Haiku must be original (no plagarizing)! 2) It must fit the weeks theme 3) It must be submitted before the deadline 4) It must be submitted for the contest (no using works previously written) 5) One Submission per user 6) The Same User cannot win twice in a row (but there welcome to submit!)
Hopefully oneday the winner could get a merit...
The Deadline will always be a Wednsday, so the deadline for the first theme will be Wednsday, September 2. The theme is The Pond
The day of the judging and the day the contest closed is not the same, I'm afraid, so one being late doesn't mean the other is, if we're going to be picky about the rules. Personally, I don't mind if late entries are counted, though, and I wont complain if the judge makes an exception for you.
Hey guys I'm back! Now I know I said Sunday, but err....her university observes Presidents' Day, while mine didn't, so she stayed an extra day. Again, my apologies, making you guys sit on the edge of your seat, biting your fingernails clean off in utter suspense for three days...
Now judging will commence shortly, but before I do...
From my understanding, as long as an entry is submitted before the judging, that entry is considered valid. Now, I know the OP doesn't say that, but the rules have changed over time(for instance, when was the last time the deadline was on a Wednesday?). Anyway, I know I've seen judges say before that they'll judge any entry submitted before the judging itself is posted. So, your entry should count, howlett.
A deadline is a deadline. Now I know that makes me look like a big hypocrite, seeing as how I presented a deadline and didn't even show up for it (especially a deadline made specifically for me!), but deadlines are made primarily for those entering. If one were to judge without a deadline, 1) there could be others casting an entry while (s)he's on a still page, 2) one theme could technically go on forever if said judge didn't show up, like me, and 3) so there can, obviously, be more themes to circulate. So, for those that submitted haikus after the deadline, I'm sorry, but I cannot take those.
And why, for all that is poetic, do you guys have to bump the contest? I wasn't going on another Alaskan, 8-person, small RV cross-country-touring vacation or anything >_>
