AsianScientist (Aug. 1, 2016) – Fancy yourself as a whiz with words? Do you love science and writing about it? You might just be the winner of our first-ever science haiku writing competition!
The Asian Scientist Science Haiku Competition 2016 is open to anyone worldwide, with Amazon vouchers of SGD$50 up for grabs for the writers of the three best haikus. The competition will end on September 30, 2016.
A haiku is a type of poem originating from Japan. It is short: seventeen syllables exactly, arranged into three lines of five, seven and five syllables each. The haiku that you will be writing won’t be just any regular haiku, though—it’ll be a science haiku, based on any article from Asian Scientist Magazine.
To provide an example, the following science haiku was written using this article on dinosaur extinction as inspiration.
Poof! Up goes a cloud of soot
There goes the T rex
How to participate:
- Like and share our Facebook page
- Write a haiku on any one of our articles
- Send us the haiku at [email protected], and include an HTML link to the article your haiku is based on
- For brownie points, share your science haiku(s) on your social media networks with the hashtags #sciencehaiku and #asianscientist
Each entrant may send up to three haikus. The deadline for the competition is September 30, 2016, GMT +8:00 time.
Good luck and may the best haiku poet win!
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