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Enter EPIC's Monthly Writing Contest
October's Theme: That Special Day
Deadline: October 31, 2020
It's free, and winners receive prizes and have their winning work published for one month on our website
See the Guidelines below and enter!
Guidelines:
- All contestants must be current EPIC members. To join or renew your membership (and be eligible), click HERE.
- Email your submission to epicshortworks@gmail.com. Subject line to include: Short Works [month you are submitting for] 2020 and your name. Please include your mailing address and phone number in the body of the email.
- Original work, prose OR poetry. Prose up to 500 words. Poetry up to 40 lines.
- Submit in a WORD document. Times New Roman, 12 pt., double-spaced for prose, single-spaced for poetry. Your name must NOT be on your submission.
- Work will not be proofread for typos or grammar by the judges.
- NO politics, derogatory references to religion, gender, ethnicity. No graphic violence or language.
- You may submit a new piece up to three times a year – only one per month.
- Winners announced in the EPIC monthly newsletter and published on the EPIC website for one month.
- Prizes: a gift certificate to Café Louvre (in Edmonds) or Starbucks.
- It is not guaranteed that a winner will be selected every month. That decision will be made by our judges.
- Winning submissions will be posted on or around the 15th of the month following the monthly contest.
- DEADLINE: September 30, 2020. Winners announced in the October newsletter
September Writing Contest Winner
Congratulations to Kristina Stapleton!
Poetry
The Constant Arachnid
by Kristina Stapleton
THE CONSTANT ARACHNID
Dog whistles play beyond the human ear,
likewise, the nattering chat of rats
whose squeak they say is near continuous
but the harp strings of the spiderweb
each spoke unique in its strength and tenor
make a music that rings a silent doorbell
only as the insect prey struggles and buzzes.
The spider, turned out in tweed for autumn,
spins face height in the sheltered doorway
casting her net like a hidden silken mask
that waits for the unwary - insect or man
heading out into the dazzled morning
where the light broadens as the earth turns away
and spiders grow large as they ply their webs.
May they always drape their lacy work here
long after the doorsill meets the lintel
as the frame rots into abandoned grounds
trees and brush will still hold their legwork up
like silver bullseyes veiled in dew, shimmering
over the paths of a future beyond our sight
the music of webs playing out of earshot.
# # #
The Constant Arachnid
by Kristina Stapleton
THE CONSTANT ARACHNID
Dog whistles play beyond the human ear,
likewise, the nattering chat of rats
whose squeak they say is near continuous
but the harp strings of the spiderweb
each spoke unique in its strength and tenor
make a music that rings a silent doorbell
only as the insect prey struggles and buzzes.
The spider, turned out in tweed for autumn,
spins face height in the sheltered doorway
casting her net like a hidden silken mask
that waits for the unwary - insect or man
heading out into the dazzled morning
where the light broadens as the earth turns away
and spiders grow large as they ply their webs.
May they always drape their lacy work here
long after the doorsill meets the lintel
as the frame rots into abandoned grounds
trees and brush will still hold their legwork up
like silver bullseyes veiled in dew, shimmering
over the paths of a future beyond our sight
the music of webs playing out of earshot.
# # #
Signs from The Edge – A Serial Novel!
As relief from reading Journal of a Plague Year, Station Eleven, and The Plague, the board of EPIC Group Writers penned a serial novel for your entertainment called Signs From the Edge. Since each author could only see the immediately preceding chapter, there are numerous plot twists and wild goose chases. Fortunately the “instigator,” Diane Naab, was able to pull the whole novella together after it veered wildly off course from the original story.
Please click on the file below and enjoy!
As relief from reading Journal of a Plague Year, Station Eleven, and The Plague, the board of EPIC Group Writers penned a serial novel for your entertainment called Signs From the Edge. Since each author could only see the immediately preceding chapter, there are numerous plot twists and wild goose chases. Fortunately the “instigator,” Diane Naab, was able to pull the whole novella together after it veered wildly off course from the original story.
Please click on the file below and enjoy!
| Signs From the Edge |