Ferries’ haiku contest is back!

By Justin Fujioka

Our haiku contest

Is again for one other year

Mark your calendars



Hop on board certainly one of our ferries and get your artistic juices flowing simply due to the fact our usual haiku hide contest on Twitter is back!



We’re seeking a typical haiku in regards to the Washington State Ferries experience. The profitable poem might be featured at the hide of our Summer 2019 Sailing Schedule!



How to enter

All you should do is comply with @wsferries on Twitter, then tweet your haiku among midday Monday, March 4, and midday Friday, March 8. Be certain to contain the hashtag #WSFHaiku. All members of the public, until WSDOT workers and contractors, are eligible and invited to participate. No fare acquire is required.

Haiku requirements and contest rules
In addition to the submission qualifications indexed above, every entrant ought to comply with those requirements and rules:

One haiku per tweet.
Poem ought to be a ordinary haiku with five (5) syllables at the primary line, seven (7) at the moment and five (5) at the third.
Haiku ought to be concerning the Washington State Ferries experience.
Poem ought to be the sole, unique work of the entrant.
An access might be disqualified if it's been formerly revealed or won awards or competitions.
Each contestant might post as much as three haikus. Any extra haikus acquired after the primary three usually aren't eligible.
By entering, all submitters provide us the proper to make use of their poems for marketing and communication purposes.
Do no longer ship your haiku through direct message on Twitter.
Washington poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna (right) and 2018 Ferries haiku contest winner Lisa Salisbury
present the summer sailing schedule that Salisbury’s haiku appeared on in May 2018.
Selecting a winner
A panel of judges will opt for as much as 25 entries primarily founded on relevance to the WSF experience. Those submissions could be despatched to Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna, who will decide on three finalists primarily founded on creativity, originality, content material and writing. Decisions of the judges are subjective, final, and can't be appealed.



The finalists’ poems could be posted at the @wsferries Twitter web page at midday Monday, March 18. The haiku with essentially one of the foremost likes at midday Friday, March 22, could be named the winner.



We will then work with the winner to discover a photograph to function a historical past for his or her haiku. The work of art could be featured on our 2019 summer season schedules!

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