Personal Essay Contest (Forum)

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Write a personal essay in 500/750 words. Deadline 7/15, 2023. CLOSED


Do you like to write blogs as in Personal essays? Then this is the contest for you!


Rules:
1. No prompt.
2. 500 words-750 words.
3. Enter the forum with {entry:XXX} or {bitem:XXX}, XXX being ID number.
4. Must be newly written.
5. Judge will be wiesblaize
6. Deadline: July 15, 2023.


"The hallmark of the personal essay is its intimacy. The writer seems to be speaking directly into your ear, confiding everything from gossip to wisdom. Through sharing thoughts, memories, desires, complaints, and whimsies, the personal essayist sets up a relationship with the reader, a dialogue - a friendship, if you will, based on identification, understanding, testiness, and companionship."
Phillip Lopate in The Art of the Personal Essay.



First prize: 75 K Awardicon
Second prize: 25 K Awardicon
Third Prize: 10 K Awardicon
Honorable Mention: WakeUp MB at judge's discretion




Entries:

1."Foods and Drinks I've Tried in Korea"  by schnujo
2."Invalid Item"  by empathyp
3."The Junk Drawer"  [18+] by blueyez
4."The Inspiration of a Lifetime"  [E] by neilfury
5."Halloween, Circa 1988"  by jim-d
6."Invalid Item"  by idaschreibt357
7."A Partial Journey into My Life"  by ajar0627
8."One Cannot Live Synecdoche"  [E] by slightrng
9."A guy named Joe."  by dnadream
10."~ ruwth and Writing.Com: The Beginning of the Adventure ~"  by ruwth
11."Subtlety"  by geja8856
12."Fighting back or giving in"  by daveryan
13."Vivid Dreams"  by intuey
14."Invalid Item"  by marymuses
15 "07-03-23 Personal Essay Contest Entry"  by stoland1999
16."The Girl With the Birdy Tattoo"  [13+] by soledad_moon
17."Food Imperialism” "  [E] by jcosmos
18."Why do I write?"  [E] by mousethyme
19."The Wallet"  [E] by tracker1948
20."The Graduate"  [ASR] by winklett
21."Black Sheep of the Family"  [ASR] by kittee
22. "Glenda's Chickens"  by solace.bring
23."Invalid Item"  by granville
24."Inspired by Hoarders"  [13+] by jeff

Donations welcome. *Bigsmile*

Thanks, lilli_in_fl for the Orange Awardicon.

Donations:
cmstarrett
neilfury
akomagsusulat
marymuses
tracker1948
winklett
solace.bring


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