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Call for Submissions: Sonnet Bake-Off 2016

Posted 10-10-2016 at 12:49 PM by Alex Pepple

Dear Eratosphereans,

It's time for this year's Sonnet Bake-Off! It will run again with the previously tried and much popular and exciting twist of the double-blind--anonymous judging AND anonymous submissions.

*** TO ENTER :

To enter, please send one sonnet per person by email to . (Note: this is not a link, it's an email address--so, don't click on it. Type the email address as indicated into the To/Recipient field of your favorite email-client program.)
1. Only previously unpublished sonnets are welcome. (Make sure your submitted sonnet cannot be found online by a web search of any of the sonnet's title/first line/etc.)
2. Please, include "Sonnet Bake-Off" in the email subject line, plus, also include your name in subject line. The sonnet itself goes in the body of the email.
3. Your sonnet must be received by by midnight (U.S. EDT) on Monday, October 17, 2016.
4. *NOTES *: i) If your submission is in a file attachment, make sure that your name is not present anywhere in the submission file (for blind judging!). ii) Also, if you know how, please remove your name from the author field of the document properties; if don't know how, then never mind, and I'll have to do it for you.
5. I will be personally anonymizing the submissions before forwarding them to the DG. Usually, I can tell who's submitting from the email's address field, but to be sure, do include the author's name in the email's subject field as specified above.
Our anonymous Host & Distinguished Guest will select about ten finalists (more or less at the DG's discretion). The DG will post the finalist sonnets, two per day, with their comments, starting on Friday, October 21, 2016. At that point everyone is welcome to join in with comments of their own. In order to allow sufficient time for comments on all ten finalists, popular voting for readers’ first, second and third choices will begin on Friday, October 28 and end at midnight (EDT) on Monday, October 31, 2016. Results will be tabulated and a popular winner will be announced as soon as the DG can manage it, at which time all ten finalists’ identities will also be divulged. The DG will also announce their own top picks.
Only then will the names of the authors be announced ... and twist twist, the identity of the Host & DG will then be revealed! So, for this bake-off, as before, you can have some fun guessing not only the identity of the sonneteer posted, but also guessing who the Secret Distinguished Guest & expert sonneteer is!

And it's a go ... so, go ahead -- submit now! Submit one, submit all!

Cheers,
...Alex

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	!!! BUMP !!! 48- Hours to entry Deadline - As of now ~60 entries in thus far NEW Winner will be published in Able Muse, print edition (and possibly, some runner-ups also depending on level of craft). If you haven't already done so, submit now! Cheers, ...Alex
	Posted 10-15-2016 at 02:28 AM by Alex Pepple

Last Day ... Last Call!

* And an activity update FYI -- You may recall when we only had 7 entries weeks after the event announcement. Given that apathetic response, I did decide to no longer limit the announcement to Sphereans only, and opened it up to *select* others (specifically, others, such as Able Muse submitters, Able Muse Press mailing list, and Able Muse’s Facebook, Twitter, and other social media groups, etc.). With all that, we’re now at 110+ received! So, it looks like this will be quite a competitive event, and if you make the final list, it will be praiseworthy achievement indeed!

Cheers,
...Alex

Posted 10-17-2016 at 12:55 PM by Alex Pepple Alex Pepple is offline