Wednesday, November 7, 2012

2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge!

There are things I love and things I detest about November. One thing I detest is Daylight Savings Time. Blech! However, something I love (in addition to Thanksgiving) is the November PAD (Poem-A-Day) Chapbook Challenge that's run on my Poetic Asides blog.

Here's how it works: Each day of November, there is a new prompt posted. Each day, poets from around the world respond to that prompt with their poems. At the end of November, poets should have 30+ poems written which they can turn into a 10-20 chapbook manuscript to submit to me by early January.

The challenge is meant to be fun and productive. Anyway, I thought I'd link to the prompts here to make it easy for Not Bob readers to play along and get caught up (if they want to break a line or two).

Here are the November 2012 poetry prompts:



The prompts will fill in throughout the month. Click on the links above to view the full explanation of the prompt, read my own attempt at the prompt, and read plenty of examples by other poets.

No matter the challenge you're taking on in November (if you're taking one on), please have an excellent time doing so.

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Also, I don't think I've mentioned it on here yet, but I was called out in the November issue of O, The Oprah Magazine for my Poetic Asides blog. In fact, a direct quote: "I have a poet crush on Robert Lee Brewer." Now that's something cool! Click here to check out the piece, which includes three other important poetry resources.

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3 comments:

Laura said...

Can I ask a dumb question. What's a chapbook?

Andrea (Andee) Beltran said...

Following along with NovPAD again this year. I did see the mention in O! Congratulations.

Robert Lee Brewer said...

The chapbook question is not dumb, Laura. It's a smaller version of a regular size book. Often, it's between 16 and 32 pages in length, though sometimes shorter and others longer.

Andrea, thanks!