A Contest for Good Humor (and other icecream frolics of the summer)!

Last Updated: 7/4
  1. Early Rules and other bothers
  2. ALL: SUMMER WRITING CONTEST (the real thing!)
  3. ALL: LIMERICK RULES FOR CONTEST
  4. Authorship matters
  5. After the Summer Contest...a quickie!
  6. The Latest Announcement
  7. Final Entries and Voting Rules (6/30)
  8. Publication Opportunities
  9. Entries and Authors (Who Did It?)
  10. Announcements (7/9)
  11. ALL: CONTEST: One Revision (LIMERICKS!)
Want to mail something to Phanny? Click here: Phanny, Royal Haughtyness of the Summer Contest

Submission dates: June 11 through midnight June 24 (your time)

Submissions must be sent to corbett@SLUAXA.SLU.EDU, NOT the list
Voting: June 25 through midnight July 8

Results: Announced on July 9

Hot Fudge and Whipped Cream?

Nuts?

But no cherries, 'cause we're on a diet!

  1. Re: FILL: SUMMER WRITING CONTEST

The Award Ceremonies!

  1. F: INT: PAPP: Gala Invite
  2. INT: PAPP: Where the heck is everyone?
  3. INT: PAPP: The Long Quiet
  4. Re: INT: PAPP: Where the heck is everyone?
  5. Re: INT: Don't mess with CathyB
  6. INT: Omar's Mutilation
  7. Re: INT: Omar's Mutilation
  8. Re: INT: Omar's Mutilation
  9. Re: INT: PAAP: A New Arrival
  10. INT: Omar's Humiliation
  11. Re: INT: PAAP: A New Arrival
  12. INT: PAAA: Rqy's Therapy Session
  13. Re[2]: INT: PAAP: A New Arrival
  14. Re: Re[2]: INT: PAAP: A New Arrival
  15. INT: PAPP: June Cleaver Prepares
  16. INT: SPT / PAPP: Two Sinister New Allivals...
  17. Re: INT: SPT / PAPP: Two Sinister New Allivals...
  18. Re: INT: SPT / PAPP: Two Sinister New Allivals...
  19. INT: PAPP: Murder's Reward.....
  20. INT: PAPP: Dresses and prizes
  21. Re: INT: PAPP: Dresses and prizes
  22. F: CONTEST: LIMERICK WINNERS!
  23. ALL: CONTEST: HUMOR PROSE WINNERS! (fwd)
  24. ALL: CONTEST: HUMOR POEM WINNERS!
  25. ALL: CONTEST: DIALOGUE WINNERS
  26. ALL: CONTEST: NONHUMOR PROSE WINNERS!
  27. ALL: CONTEST: NONHUMOR POEM WINNERS!
  28. Re: INT: PAPP: Dresses and prizes
  29. Re: INT: PAPP: Dresses and prizes
  30. ALL: CONTEST: One Revision (LIMERICKS!)

The Categories, and Soon to be Entries!

  1. HUMOR WRITING: (humorous entries only)
    1. poem
      1. ALL: CONTEST: HUMOR POEM WINNERS!
      2. Omar at His Computer
      3. The Cat in the Hat on the List
      4. If Every Pot Has a Lid, Why Do I Always End Up With Saran Wrap?
      5. Dragon's Song
      6. Elvis
      7. This is your life
      8. A Short Addendum to Howl
    2. prose (essay, vignette, etc.)
      1. ALL: CONTEST: HUMOR PROSE WINNERS! (fwd)
      2. The Chinese Have Much to Learn
      3. Taking on the Farm
      4. Game
      5. Being a Country Kid
      6. Songkran, 1975
      7. Unscrewed
      8. See Jane. See Jane Laugh.
      9. Something to Roo
      10. Haggerty's Big Day
    3. dialog (a total dialog piece, 2-4 characters)
      1. ALL: CONTEST: DIALOGUE WINNERS
      2. Frustration
      3. The Beginning of What?
      4. Sleeping Arrangements
    4. limerick (must conform to standard limerick form, which will be posted to the list)
      1. F: CONTEST: LIMERICK WINNERS!
      2. ALL: CONTEST: One Revision (LIMERICKS!)
      3. Claire
      4. Puberty
      5. The Flirtatious Miss Hurt
      6. Limerick in Spanglish
      7. My Old Kentucky Roan
      8. Gal From St. Lou
      9. Soho: The People
      10. minage a palindrome
      11. Clinton's Last Stand
      12. Tribulations of Noah Wheezer
      13. Skirting and flirting
      14. The Anonymous Poster
      15. Complaint
      16. Wanna Be
  2. NON-HUMOR WRITINGS: (theme: Modern maenads)
    1. poem
      1. ALL: CONTEST: NONHUMOR POEM WINNERS!
      2. Seagull
      3. Abyssinian memories
      4. Two Poets
      5. Desert Reverie/Before the Fall
      6. Traveler
    2. prose (story, vignette, anything not a poem)
      1. ALL: CONTEST: NONHUMOR PROSE WINNERS!
      2. Did You See Them?
      3. Number 9

What's a Maenad?

"His [Dionysus] devotees, armed with thyrsoi (wands tipped with a pine cone and wreathed with vine or ivy) and known as maenads (literally "mad women"), were reputed to wander in thiasoi (revel bands) about mountain slopes, such as Cithaeron or Parnassus; the practice persisted into Roman imperial times. They were also supposed, in their ecstasy, to practice the sparagmos, the tearing of living victims to pieces and feasting on their raw flesh (omophagia). While such behavior continued in the wild, in the cities--in Athens, at any rate--the cult of Dionysus was tamed before 500 BD. Tragedy developed from the choral song of Dionysus."

From Britannica Online

As for the modern maenads...that's for YOU to write!

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