Attention Essay Writers
Ravyne Hawke has created an essay writing contest in the publication Promptly Written with an interesting non-monetary prize
“THE CHALLENGE
Write a personal essay using the following prompt:
What drives me as a writer?”
The nonmonetary prize may be of interest to writers looking to increase their visibility:
“The prize will be your own Featured Page at the very top of PW for the entire month of March. Your feature page will include everything you’ve written on PW. You will also have an opportunity to create an article that lists all of your work from anywhere else on Medium and it will be added to your feature page as well. If you are a new writer to Medium and PW and you do not have many stories submitted, you have 20 days to get some in. I will also promote your featured page on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as include it in every newsletter during March.”
Because I am an editor in PW, and very good friends with Ravyne, who will be the sole judge of the contest, I probably will not create my own entry, but I am undecided. Plus, it’s a topic I have written about several times and I am not sure I would come up with a sufficiently unique entry to meet my own standards. Yet, the topic percolated in my subconscious while I slept last night and I decided I will write a series of poems that could serve as my outline for a potential entry.
Here is one of those poems, which is a dizain. A dizain is a ten-line poem, each having ten syllables, with this end-rhyme scheme: ABABBCCDCD:
I write to climb upon Solsbury Hill where all my guides and ancestors hear me and read my words which gives them quite a thrill as they and all of you into me see while I fight currents of humanity. Much to do before eagle takes me home. Synchronicities say I’ll write a tome. Is that how I’ll breathe life and love of God? Writing seems coded in my chromosomes. Somehow writing shall be connecting rod.
A Few Thoughts Behind My Poem
This song by Peter Gabriel:
“Breathe life and love of God” is the translation of the Hawaiian phrase “Aloha Ke Akua,” which is the title of this song by Nahko and Medicine for the People,
which song figured greatly in this essay I wrote last year in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself in response to Diana C.’s prompt: “What does having purpose mean to me.”
Here is Ravyne’s story with all of the rules for the contest — only essays submitted to Promptly Written are eligible for the contest:
In Rama I create, with soul-energy surging through my body, inspiring me and breathing wind into my sails,
