Towards the 'Autumn Pirika Grand Prix 2024' - Shino Uzuki
I have returned after a year and four months, the Pirika Grand Prix 👑
This will be the fifth installment, and we are also welcoming powerful ✨guest judges✨.
The history of the past four events is as follows.
1st 'Pirika Grand Prix' June 2021 Theme: 'Sleep'
2nd 'Winter Pirika Grand Prix'December 2021 Theme: 'Light'
3rd 'Summer Pirika Grand Prix'June 2022 Theme: 'Mirror'
4th 'Spring Pirika Grand Prix'May 2023 Theme: 'Finger'
First, please read the application requirements, notes, and announcement methods for this event carefully.
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《Autumn Pirika Grand Prix 2024 Application Requirements》
＊Theme: 'Paper'
＊ Title: Free
＊Character count: 800 to 1200 characters (Strictly observed)
※ Please use the note text count. (Ruby characters are not included in the count)
＊Application period
October 4th (Fri) 0:00 AM to October 9th (Wed) 11:59 PM
＊The character '
Paper' must be included in the work, and it must be the theme of the work.＊Must be a story. (Essays are not allowed)
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Clearly state the character count at the end of the text.＊The genre of the story is open.
＊Hashtag: 'Tag
Autumn Pirika Entry'.＊Please limit your entry to one work per person.
＊Please refrain from editing your text after the deadline has passed. (Excluding corrections of obvious typos)
【Notes】
＊Please note in advance that entries that do not follow the above requirements will unfortunately be excluded from selection.
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Regarding the use of AIAs the organizer, while I wish to encounter works where the entire text was written by the participants themselves, I will leave the decision on how to use AI to each individual. However, if you do use it, please be sure to comply with copyright laws and other regulations, and check for yourself to ensure you do not infringe on the rights of others.
《Regarding the Autumn Pirika Grand Prix Announcements》
🏆Award Announcement
November 2nd (Sat)
※Candidates for the Reader's Choice Award and the voting method for the Reader's Choice Award will also be announced on the same day.
🏆Number of Awards
Judge's Personal Awards (1000 yen support) 10 awards
Suma-Spa Award (500 yen support) 6 awards
Reader's Choice Award (100 yen support) 3 awards
Please also check Pirika-san's 'Application Requirements' article below.
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Now, as for me, Shino Uzuki, since February of this year (2024), I have narrowed my creative activities down to 'Haiku' only.
My last eight months can be summarized as follows.
＊Humbly, yet sincerely, I look at the changing seasons, nature, living things, and people's lives, and I compose haiku by internalizing the emotions I gain from them.
＊I read and carefully appreciate the haiku of predecessors and contemporary poets, and I learn directly from active haiku poets by attending haiku gatherings and joining haiku circles.
＊I am facing the 'seventeen syllables' seriously every day.
The points that I, as someone like this, will emphasize in the judging of this 'Autumn Pirika Grand Prix' remain the same as the past Pirika Grand Prix, consisting of the following four points.
1. Does the topic 'Paper' stand out clearly as the theme?
2. Is the writing and expression easy to understand?
3. Is the word choice careful and the Japanese beautiful?
4. Has it been thoroughly proofread?
However, these four points are merely a matter of 'technique'.
The most important thing is,
how carefully and lovingly the author has woven their work.
I would like to strongly add that this is the case.
For me, the 'Pirika Grand Prix' is a special place.
Although my current involvement with 'prose' is limited to writing appreciation pieces for haiku,I intend to brace myself and face each work in the 800-1200 character world with full sincerity.
Those participating for the first time,
Those with past participation experience,
Those who participate every time,
Those who have already won a prize,
And those who have experience as guest judges,
I hope everyone will take on this challenge with all your heart!
I, too, will approach the judging of the works with all my heart, without any bias.
This is the second one starting from this time.
I loved this type, but it seems it's already out of print.
(I'm glad I stocked up on three of them)
After reading each work twice, I will narrow them down and read them a third and fourth time.
This time, too, it will be a super-analog judging process.
Sincerely, Shino Uzuki
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