We’re just about ready to kick off the judging portion of our very first ecard contest! Yippee! If you aren’t sure about the contest, we announced it here and have set up its own page here (up in its new navigation tab), where all the entries are located for your viewing pleasure!
(But don’t leave any comments, yet, until you read on because there is more fun to be had. And – very important — if you sent us work and it is not up there on the page, holler, for it must be stuck in our email account’s spam folder, and we want to go find it and post it before the contest starts!)
Here’s the rest of the fun: We want two or three Read Write Poem members to help pick the winner. The parameters follow:
1. We want two community members to act as judges for the contest.
2. Judges cannot be entrants and should not comment publicly on the entries, since deliberations by judges will be done behind (virtual) closed doors. (This means potential judges should not leave comments on the page listing all entries, even though non-judges and contestants are free to comment on the work.)
If you want to be a judge (and we do hope you will), leave a comment here. Or leave a comment on the ecard page. Or email us at info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org. Do tell us soon!
I’d love to help judge the e-card contest. Whether it’s relevant or not, I am a graduate of UC Irvine with a degree in English/Creative Writing, and do have a strong background in poetry and critique. I’m also the author of a very new poetry blog, and currently not working full time, so I would be excited to participate! Please feel free to contact me.
Tina, yay!
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I forgot to enter! Nuts. But I’d be happy to judge. I don’t have any relevant degrees, but I’ve seen a lot of red-tailed hawks at close range.
(If it seems too incestuous to have the guy you name-dropped in your initial annoucement acting as one of the judges, though, no problem — I’m sure others will volunteer.)
Dave, I have no issues with that and don’t think the other directors would mind, either. In fact, from co-editing Postal Poetry with you, I know you have seen lots of submissions and would have just the eye we need for this. It would be perfect.
Anyone else game?
I’m very glad to have Dave as a judge!
I think we can go with two judges.
[...] to link to Read Write Poem, an online community and magazine I deeply believe in. I volunteered to help judge the contest, [...]
Yay! We have three judges. Stay tuned for more information.