As the first winner of the Horror/Macabre prize... it's sad to see this little contest so dead.

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yes...action.

i am so glad to see this site back up and running. I missed all the action.

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Bamboo awards hey,nice idea. I will definetly be voting.

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hey, thanks for nominating my piece for the competition. I'm really surprised, since i didn't even know if anybody on DA ever bothered to read all of it. So that already proves to me that this must be a cool award -- I'll watch you for now and hope that I can contribute to this project in some way.

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Thanks for the

we love to receive help from you. You can check out our past journal on how you can help. But perhaps the best help we can get is to have one of your best works nominated. Keep on writing. We are proud to have you in our list of winners.


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I think you all are doing a fabulous job. I think people need to recgonize that no matter who is doing selecting winners in poetry contests, experts or not, the opinion is always in the eye of the beholder. If you have a problem with the site, dont be involved. It seems that simple to me.

To thebambooawards, i would still like to be eligible for the contests, but if there is any additional way that i can help, please let me know, thanks.

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"Actually, contrary to what has been said of us not caring to "change for the better" simply because we haven't replied to the comments posted here is not entirely accurate. Just because we don't reply simply doesn't mean we don't consider the critiques. While others may be quick to defend themselves or even take the offensive, we rather just read whatever has been said and take them as it is.

Indeed, we have to admit that we are poorly inexperienced when it comes to critiquing poems in the form of giving out "awards", compared to the already established communities here in the DA. Indeed, we are even having some troubles within ourselves. However, for those of you who are not quite aware of how things started with us, it is better that you probably read our first journal entries.

As to our poor collection of featured poems and pieces, we respect your opinion as to the quality of our poems chosen. Unfortunately, we do not have the same excellent skill in appreciation of true art and poetry like most experts here. However, while it may appear as being content with low standards, we are nonetheless proud of our nominated works and we hope that by recognizing these poets help them hone their skills and inspire them to continue writing poems. Our list of nominees are that: nominated poems. We accept them and out of the nominated poems we choose what we think are best and feature them. If the best that we have received are poor, then so be it. Let that be to the reader's subjective reception.

As to the eligibility of voting, one has to know the story of that portion. For the info of others, we never initially planned of letting others decide for us who they think should win our poetry contest. When we started this, we didn't even expect DA members to include us in their watch list. We were not very optimistic about this project. But when we started gaining some level of attention and started gaining new friends as well, we decided that, as our way of saying thank you to those who have kept us in their watchlist, we let them participate in the decision making process. Thus, started the voting eligibility which is exclusive to those who keep watch. Unlike other groups like coffeehouse for example, we are not really a "community" where DA members get to interact the way other clubs do. We don't offer memberships like other clubs. But since some DA members still want to keep us in their watchlist, we sort of like consider them as "members" of the "club" thus as members, they get to vote as their way of participating. And this is a tradition we shall continue to do.


Other comments posted here may already be trivial and we feel we need not really go gaga over them as to correction on grammar, Hongkong Time, and whatnot. We do take note them though and hope that maybe our own little community can thrive longer than what we had initially hoped for.

We do apologize for the late reply sometimes. The initiators of this project come from poor countries that we need to ride a water bufallo to transport us to the city and go to an internet cafe and spend what is equivalent to only 0.005 US dollars to read the poems nominated and even write our own. But we are die-hard fans of poetry and DEVIANTART and great patrons of BLOOMING poets who like us are also learning the science and art of poetry writing."

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No problem. I have my eye on you! Hehe...

ty for the fav

thank you for the great encouragement
we needed it



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Such a very cool group/org/award-giving body.

It's nice to see Prose and Poetry as a recognized art form.

I'm a writer myself. I'm into Photography lately though.

Anyhow, keep up the very good work and more power to this group. :hi:

How can we see what has been submitted in the competition?? I don't know where to see what I have had put in?

happy to hear it! Thanks.

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How can I get a piece into the competition? Can I submit it? Limits on length/topic/etc?

so i kinda forgot...what do the winners get? the journal right? i was just asking cuz i remembered something about winning deviations being faved or something like that...does anyone know?

prize or not, thanks for the votes!

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Thank you very much to everyone who has helped me along the way in my writing. And thx for adding my "cocaine confusion" to the list for the neon pen award and for adding me to "outstanding poet" (silver bamboo award) It means a lot to me. Thx for all the comments/critique and faves I recieved on that poem.

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Guys

Thank you for the nomination. Never expected it.



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WE HAVE OUR OWN CHAT ROOM
#BambooAwards

Send me a note if you wish to be one of our operators

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Please be adviced that votes are to be turned in by sending us a note. And voters are required to vote for one poem for all categories (unless of course the voter explicitly states his abstaining from the vote).

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Thanks for the interest. Our Winter Season has just concluded so if you are planning to join, your entry will be considered for the Spring Awards which will start on March. For the mean time, please refer to our RULES in our gallery.

Thanks again


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hey there.
im voting for haressh's I too have seen the greatest minds of my generation

I'm thinking of joining. What are the criteria?

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