Poetry Contest

Hey!! The weather is *fantastic* outside, I love it!! The whole rain and springtime thing is amazing. No frost on my car when I'm running late for work is also fantastic.

Right now I'm preparing for a Poetry Contest; deadline tomorrow. One of my favorite professors, Stormy Stipe, is in charge of it. I can enter 2 fiction pieces, 3 poems, and 2 creative non-fiction: i.e., personal essay or chapters of a memoir.

I kind of want to enter this other essay that I wrote in high school, though. It's modeled off of Swift's "A Modest Proposal," and it's extremely hilarious if I do say so myself. Satire is my forte, my high school English teacher said. I wonder if I could re-construct it a little so that it would fall into the personal essay format. Hmm.

I'll have to give it a try. I'll let you know how it goes...

Anyway the contest is great. This is the first year they've done the creative non-fiction section, though, so the prize money is a little less than other years, but that's OK. Money would be awesome, but I also really need to win. To show myself that I'm a good enough writer to be making a career out of it, you know?? I didn't win last year (the only year I've entered), which was a huge disappointment. Wish me better luck this time...