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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3430 Registered: 11-1998 |
Dear Membership -- Here's information about a new Creativity Challenge Program that was introduced here at Wild on Monday, July 11, 2005 _________________________________________________ Title: WPF's Creativity Challenge Objectives: To stimulate more member involvement in Wild. To increase traffic on Wild and secure new members. To advertise useful poetry books that people may not know exist. To educate and teach our membership new poetry formats and theories. Description: On Monday of each week, a Creativity Challenge will be posted by Admin. It will ask members to write a poem based on specific criteria. Most of the challenges will be taken from poetry books on the market, though some will be created by WPF Admin and Staff. The Challenge participants will then have six days to complete the Challenge. The poems will be read and judged by Admin (that means me, M) on the following Sunday evening and the winner of the Creativity Challenge will be posted along with the Poem of the Week Winner and Honorable Mentions on the following Monday. To be considered, poems must be posted by Sunday BEFORE 6:00 p.m. (PST) of the Challenge Week. Poems posted on Sunday AFTER 6:00 p.m. (PST) of the Challenge week will be ineligible. There must be at least three (3) participating poems in any particular week's Challenge, or the voting will be cancelled for that week. You do not have to participate in every Challenge. Some weeks, it may not fit into your schedule, some weeks the particular Creativity Challenge may not be of interest to you. But we hope that you will take this opportunity to become more involved in Wild as time permits. Poems currently in the Challenge are NOT eligible for Poem of the Week or IBPC consideration in the week that they are in the Challenge. After that particular week's Challenge is over, however, they may be reposted on any of our other IBPC boards for Poem of the Week and IBPC consideration. The Challenge is open to members only, so you must be a registered member of Wild to participate. Only one (1) entry per member per week, please. Moderators and other staff at WPF (with the exception of Admin, of course) ARE eligible to participate in the Challenges. Poems will be judged on how well they fit the Challenge criteria. All judge's decisions are final. There is no monetary compensation connected with this Challenge. The terms and conditions of this Creativity Challenge Program are subject to change at any time. Forum: ~BALANCING QI~ (Community Involvement Forum) -- formerly known as The Fates Forum _________________________________________________ Should you have any questions or comments regarding this new Creativity Challenge Program, please write to us at adminwpf@wildpoetryforum.com We hope you will be most pleased with this new activity and that you will participate as much as you can. But most important, learn, have fun, and enjoy! Love, M (Administrator) UPDATE (August 2005): The WPF Weekly Creativity Challenge is now a compensated program. All the weekly winners will be pooled each month and a Grand Prize Winner will be determined at month's end. That winner will be announced at the beginning of the following month and be awarded a $5 Amazon.com Gift Certificate that may be used in WPF's BookShop toward the purchase of books or any other product. The reward program will begin with the August 2005 Weekly Creativity Challenges entries. As always, terms and conditions of this program are subject to change at any time. UPDATE (January 2007) The Amazon.com Gift Certificate amount for the monthly Grand Prize Winner has been raised from $5 to $10. All other terms and conditions remain the same. |
