WD Poetic Form Challenge: Wordy 30 Winner
Learn the winner and Top 10 list for the Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge for the Wordy 30.
Here are the results of the Writer's Digest Poetic Form Challenge for the Wordy 30 along with a Top 10 list. You can check out all the Wordy 30 entries in the comments on this post.
Our next big challenge is the month-long 2022 November Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge, which starts on November 1, 2022.
Here is the winning Wordy 30:
"Winter Foray," by Lisa L Stead
Field
mouse
found
bread
trail.
Score!
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Congratulations, Lisa! When I read these, I really do take it one. word. at. a. time. And it made "Winter Foray" a delight to read sonically through the first five lines, with the triumphant "Score!" at the end.
Here’s my Top 10 list:
- Winter Foray, by Lisa L Stead
- Cloud Burst, by Pamela L. King
- Daddy, by Tracy Davidson
- Cycle, by Holly Henderson
- green color crime, by gpr crane
- Blubber Treats, by Oliver McKeithan
- Full Moon, by Lelawattee Mano-Rahming
- Color of Calm, by Kimberly Sewell
- Storm, by Candace Kubinec
- August, by Nancy H. Allen
Congratulations to everyone in the Top 10! And to everyone who wrote a wordy 30!
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
