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Halloween can inspire your Cauldron competition entry
With Halloween (or as we pagans generally like to reference it, Samhain) just round the corner, the extension of the deadline for entries to The 2nd Annual Spicy Cauldron Awards makes perfect sense! What greater inspiration can you ask for when planning to write something or produce artwork and photos centred around the word ‘cauldron’ than the one day in the year when tradition has it that the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest?
For those who need reminders or are coming to this without having seen previous prompts, the competition is just a bit of fun aimed at cross-promoting blogs and bloggers. There’s a prize for the top winner—a ‘best of poems so far’ collection by yours truly—and a total of up to five entrants will be name-checked here along with a review of their work.
Links will be provided to the original posts on the winner’s blogs. They will also get a little badge they can display if they want to link to the page where their winning entry is reviewed. As part of the community fun, winners will be asked to provide readers with an ‘acceptance speech’ in the comments section. Weeping with joy will be permitted, while flowers can be thrown at monitors around the world by way of additional praise.
The rules are easy. You write or photograph or draw or otherwise produce something creative. The only requirement is that you focus your efforts around the word ‘cauldron’. Maybe you will use the word in an essay or short story; perhaps you will simply use it as a metaphor or take its shape as a springboard idea for a work of art. Whatever. Poems are welcome, Photoshopped images are welcome, designs produced in Illustrator or Painter are welcome… Anything is welcome, so long as readers and viewers can see how the word ‘cauldron’ either inspired you or was incorporated into your entry. Heck, if you’ve knitted a jumper with a cauldron on it, get it photographed! Or a cake!
The only limits are those you place on yourself when approaching the word, and trust me—once you start thinking about it, you will realise the word ‘cauldron’ is one that offers a lot of scope. Spiritual, political, comic, serious… Again, the word is whatever.
You can see a list of last year’s winners here.
When your work is ready, post a link to it on this page. Please don’t post the complete entry anywhere other than on your own blog. If you then win, it will be highlighted here in a post announcing the winners later this month.
You have until Sunday night. We already have some entries in but we need more. What are you waiting for? Get busy!
