WORKSHOP CONTEST
hosted by The Workshop
Welcome everyone! The rules are simple, please follow the rules or you will be DQed instantly. There are a few steps you need to take, make sure you follow them or you will be DQed.
Step 1: Visit our group, The Workshop
Step 2: Write a fresh new poem (about anything)
Step 3: Write “PLEASE WORKSHOP MY POEM!” in the authors notes
Step 4: Wait for commentary from at least one judge and at least 2-3 comments (we will give you one week to get commentary).
Step 5: After you get enough commentary, rewrite your original and write REWRITE next to your title so we can know it’s your new piece.
***THE JUDGES ARE, LuzAradia, Fug-azi, garbait, and hiraeth.
THAT’S IT… ONCE YOU MADE YOUR REWRITE YOU ARE DONE WITH THE CONTEST.
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YOU MAY NOW ENTER MORE THAN ONE POEM IF YOU LIKE. :-) ************************************************************
This contest will be based on the quality of the rewrite and consideration of the comments you get. This is a workshop contest so your main objective would be to take constructive criticism and build on it.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on April 12, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 800, Silver: 600, Bronze: 300, Honorable mention: 5 people
- Final notes: I want to thank you all for entering the contest. I think it was a great turnout. I based this contest strictly on the quality of the rewrites and the interest of the poet to ask questions and allow their poetry to be workshopped. Those who really took the effort of working on their poetry and take our criticism into consideration are in the finalists. I did not look for someone to do everything we said he/she should do but rather, those who asked questions and really TRIED to improve their original draft. The Gold, Silver and Bronze in my opinion really took the effort to take their original, listen to our commentary and write something much more powerful. I have chosen to make everyone who rewrote their poem to win an HM because those poets have taken the effort to try and make themselves better artists and should definitely be rewarded for it. Obviously, the point was to rewrite and follow the rules of the workshop so if you did not get an honorable mention and don't have "rewrite" on your rewrite, this is why you didn't get the HM. Sorry but rules are rules. CONGRATS to all the winners!!!!!
Contest Winners
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As petty phrase and whistle run over baby
lingering back to the feeling of before• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
Karma sips her cup
awaiting for my mistake again.• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
I found her in the cemetery
With shoulder hunched and eyes wary-• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
So, you toss another penny
In life's swirling wishing wellby toomysterious 26 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 21 9:40 PM 2008. In Contest, Love, Life
Honorable mention
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Wash your hands
After...• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] -
An abyss and vacant fingertips
skim over the shadowed illusions• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [19]
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Karma sips from her cup
awaiting for me to make a mistake.by ThisIsMyWonderland 14 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 17 5:14 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
Let me just tell you dis right here,
When you call me I just get so happy....• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Let us journey through a man...• Commented on by judge.
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• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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What abyss in vacant fingertips
skimmed over shadowed illusionsby wbiro 38 lines, 13 comments, on Mar 19 4:41 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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It's all on paper
in black and white.by toomysterious 20 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 22 10:22 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
A million days of filled repast Enjoyment unconcurred• Commented on by judge.
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Comments
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I guess I'm a natural for this contest, for I post a poem when I 'think' it's done, then as soon as someone even looks at it, all the glariing faults light up like Las Vegas lights...
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well, I think there is always room for constructive criticism, you can try and add a poem that you just wrote that may need to be workshopped.
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1 question-Why allow prewrites when we have to write "New writes"?lol
Great idea for a contest and good luck with the judging 
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I just left it open. I prefer new writes but sometimes people write and save a poem and then enter it so...
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Okay...I write a poem and wait for people to give me some feedback...then I take that feedback and rewrite the poem?
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exactly
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whats the link to your group, the workshop?
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Not that I'm actually complaining or anything, but I really doubt that I got a fair chance because no one actually commented on my poem and every other poem got commented on. So, I don't know why that happened and it is upsetting. But, any way, I do want to congratulate the winners, I have read some of your poems and I think you did deserve it.
Hugs and Kisses,
Tiphanie -
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As I said before, I assumed all my other judges were able to comment on all the poems, there were a lot of judges in this contest so actually every poem was commented on (except yours) :-( . I really missed your poem because I only judged the (rewrites). I'm usually a better judge but sadly my world has been complete chaos. If you re-check you would see that all my group members commented on all the other poems.
My sincere apologies. I feel really bad but I promise that something did come up and I really only judged the ones that said "rewrite" because I simply couldn't dedicate the time I wanted to on this. It's a shame because I was really looking forward to this contest.
NOTE TO GROUP: I HAVE GIVEN 100 POINTS TO HER TO TRY AND MAKE UP FOR THE UNFAIR JUDGEMENT.
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