Thanks to everyone who entered our 15th Anniversary Contest!
With so many great entries, it was hard to choose the winners of our FREE A La Carte Service. We received over 650 entries from over two dozen countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Nigeria, Philippines, Romania, Scotland, Senegal/West Africa, South Africa, South Korea, Sudan, Taiwan, Trinidad/West Indies/Tobago, and Zimbabwe.
Additional first-prize BONUS
Choosing just two winners (for clients and nonclients) was so difficult that we decided to ADD ONE EXTRA WINNER, who will receive a FREE round of our A La Carte submissions. A number of writers chose to write about the topic of Writer’s Relief, so we considered those entries as part of an additional category.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting more of the entries that were submitted to our contest. Stay tuned!
So, without further ado, we present the three first-prize winners.
Winner of the GENERAL ENTRIES category (wins FREE A La Carte Service)
Congratulations to Catharine Bramkamp of Cotati, California, for winning the first prize in our general entries category. Her life story in 15 words made us crack up laughing. Here’s the winning entry:
my mother always finds the typos.
Winner of the ACTIVE CLIENTS category (wins $100 off his next invoice)
Congratulations to Eli Langner from Tucson, Arizona! We loved this clever little poem, especially the unique way it is laid out.
wrong;
was
I
but
myself,
it
do
could
I
thought
I
Winner of the additional Writer’s Relief category (wins FREE A La Carte Service)
Congratulations to Joanne Hirase-Stacey of Malad, Idaho. We thought your submission was very funny and very apt—given that we love both grammar and our canine mascots!
Honorable Mentions for the general submissions category (win a FREE Writer’s Relief T-shirt)
Robert D. Buckingham of Santa Ana, California, wrote:
Dan Rose of Wharton, New Jersey, wrote:
but it was already furnished
with someone else’s expectations.
Richard W. Ahern of Oakley, California, wrote:
go to MySpace, Facebook, ogle me,
appreciate my transparency,
then disconnect.
Honorable mentions for the Writer’s Relief client category (win a FREE Writer’s Relief T-shirt)
Susanna Rich of Blairstown, New Jersey, wrote:
our clothes.
We are all water
and each other’s
shore.
Lisa Harris of Trumansburg, New York, wrote:
Patricia Anne Elford of Pembroke, Ontario, wrote:
Hero bounded gazellelike.
Awake,
five digits short,
he tripped awkwardly,
fell
down.
We hope to be putting together another contest later this year, so please continue to read our Writer’s Newsflash. Again, thanks to everyone who participated. We can’t tell you how much fun we had reading these entries, and we hope that you enjoy them as well!
Wow, what beautiful poetry written by all of the winners. "CONGRATULATIONS" to everyone!!! You should all be proud!!!
so many people – so much creativity
so much talent – during daily activity
Posted for Rochelle K.
I thought the winning entries excellent. Good idea and your new format very appealing. Good luck with it.
best,
Rochelle
The formatting of some of the entries, quite creative. Excellent!
Wow! How impressive the creativity; If only I knew about the format of the entry.
Better luck next time.
Ram.
Another WOW! and CONGRATULATIONS! to all the winners!
A lot of talent, creativity and craftiness in all of
the entries. I’ve been impressed and MOTIVATED!!!