Today is contest day: Terry's writing challenge, limericks, and $1500 worth of book prizes

(terry.ubc.ca is a webzine on global issues that I coordinate at UBC)

TERRY'S WRITING CHALLENGE

There once was a website named Terry¹
That wanted to make people wary
Of things going on
In the world that are wrong
Without making it all seem too scary.

So this is a call for submissions
To write or create things worth dishing
Pragmatic or pretty
Might help to be witty
It's quality stuff that we're wishing

To sweeten the bait for you all
A contest we'll once again call
Some say it's illustrious
We hear it's stupendious
Much fun should be had with it all.

Three categories² we've placed in the mix
And in each, three prizes we've fixed
Dollar amounts start at fifty,
One hundred, Three Fifty
In UBC bookstore certificates³.

We'll publish the entries throughout
Quietly noting the ones that stand out
Whereby the first day of spring⁴
Is when all should be in.
And the nine winners then will be flouted.

Curious?

About $500 of the prizes are set aside for non-UBC folk. Click here for full details, but note that the best part of this contest is that it's happy to look at term papers, as well as things like really good blog entries.