poetreehouse

A big congrats to last month's grand prize winner @Eburch2020 - you can now check out their winning poem in the poetry collection as well as their interview! Give them some support if you have the time and check out their other works on their account!

Maeve_Powell

heyy, I just wanted to ask - didn't you guys want to be back in october? Are you planning on hosting another contest in the future? :)

poetreehouse

@Maeve_Powell That was the original plan, but things ended up being delayed! We definitely plan to host more contests in the future - we're hoping to host a bigger contest, seeing if there's more interest than there was in our monthly contests. We didn't have a very consistent number of people submitting, we actually skipped one month because of that. We're hoping to be back soon and we appreciate your patience and interest! (:
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poetreehouse

If it isn't my favorite community, how are you all?
          
          Wanted to let you know that our talented grand prize winner @rfloetry offically has their interview published and we've posted their winning poem in the Neck of the Woods collection. Show them some support if you can!

rfloetry

@poetreehouse Thanks!
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poetreehouse

Hello, everyone! Taking a page from WattpadPoetry's Versification, we were curious if anyone would be interested in a daily prompt contest separate from the In The Trees Awards - where we would have a grand prize winner at the end of the month from all the poetry they submitted. Obviously, we have a small team so it would take some time to go through all of the poems and we'd have to keep you all waiting longer - but maybe a little suspense is a good thing. 
          
          If this is something you're into, please let us know so we can see how much interest there is. If enough people seem into it, we'll wait till we reach our 100 follower mark and then start working on the contest.

rfloetry

@poetreehouse Yes, that would be awesome. The anticipation was killing me too lol
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poetreehouse

@rfloetry I really love that idea! One of the bones I had to pick with Versification was also when they were announcing winners, not sure about you but waiting all that time - and then having them drop a few winners at a time instead of all together - I was losing my sanity.  So for our spin on things, we will definitely drop the winners all together. 
            We definitely want it to be more efficient and flexible.
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rfloetry

@poetreehouse Hi @-bites! :D Yeah, I think weekly would be a good start just to see how it goes, and if it's successful, you can always decide to change it to daily in the future, or stick with weekly. But having to scramble to write something for 30 prompts is a challenge! XD You can also release several prompts for that week, but people should only pick/submit one prompt for that week? This way people have more options, but don't necessarily have to tackle every prompt.
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poetreehouse

Hello everyone, hope you're having a beautiful day/night! The results for In The Trees have been posted and our new contest prompt is up so join us for another month of poetry!
          
          We'll be messaging the winners in a little while to sort out their rewards.

poetreehouse

This month's contest has been cancelled, unfortunately! We hope to return for July if things feel more right.

rfloetry

@poetreehouse I'll keep an eye out next month then.
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fadinginthecorner

@poetreehouse That's too bad, I hope next month goes better!
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poetreehouse

Hi all! It's the 13th of the month, and we haven't received any submission for the contest. We aren't expecting to reach the number needed to continue the contest, so for this reason we are debating having a temporary hiatus, just due to the lack of interest. We will see how the rest of the month goes!
          
          Hope you're all doing well!

Cocoblonci

@poetreehouse owkay
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poetreehouse

@Cocoblonci We've decided to cancel this month's prompt, but we will be back for new prompts!
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poetreehouse

@rfloetry It's just a prompt contest, monthly theme. We've decided to sit this month out, though and continue next month likely!
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