Share excerpts, inspirational writing messages, photos of your giant cup of coffee/tea (aka Poetry Fuel) and interact with each other.Use the hashtag #ChapbookChallenge on Twitter for any related posts, so we can find each other.Here are some things you can do to help this fledgling community on Twitter: This is a grassroots community of poet novelists (maybe that’s not a thing, maybe it is– you decide!) and we’re going rogue. We don’t have any fancy forums for this or places to set up profiles. How to Participate in The Chapbook Challenge Always make sure to care for yourself mentally, emotionally and physically.As a good friend of mine often says: “I’m not the boss of you!” Poems can be any style or form, including prose poetry and haibuns.If you change your mind midstream and decide to write a different chapbook, that counts!.
Get the lines, stanzas and ideas on the page– we can figure out what to ‘do’ with them later. The most important part of the Chapbook Challenge is that it inspires you and pushes your poetry forward. We may be rebels (in the novel writing sense), but we’re going to start with some guidelines. If you’re unfamiliar with chapbooks, head on over to Moonchaps by Moonchild Magazine where you can take a look at some digital versions that are completely free to read. Poetry chapbooks are often poems collected to tell a story or share an overarching theme that stitches them together. What makes this challenge different is that it is focused on creating a chapbook manuscript. You might be saying: Hey wait a minute, don’t we have National Poetry Month and Poem A Day challenges every April? We definitely do! In fact, some of those poems from April might even serve as inspiration for your November chapbook. The Chapbook Challenge is a modified version of NaNoWriMo for poets. Welcome to NaNoWriMo for Poets: The Chapbook Challenge It’s time to put something together for poets working on chapbooks.
So, I went where all writers go when they want to poll their community and make writing decisions: Twitter. This led me to consider November and how I would like to work on my current collection in much the same way that I had with NaNo years before. Verse after verse is finding its way onto the page for me and I’m writing poetry chapbooks and collections. I’m not writing traditional novels at this time, but I have been writing books. Ultimately, it wasn’t something I would go on to publish. I actually wrote and completed a novel one November many years ago. I love the energy behind NaNo, it galvanized my writing in a new way. “NaNoWriMo has grown into a nonprofit that runs year-round programs across 646 regions around the world and in thousands of classrooms, and empowers nearly half a million people to access the power of creative writing.”Īs someone that has participated in NaNoWriMo in the past, I kept asking myself this question. It’s a challenge issued every November for authors to write 50,000 words of a novel and jump start their creative energies. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) was established in 1999 and is the brain child of Chris Baty. If you’re a poet with a creative rebellious spirit, NaNoWrimo for Poets: A Chapbook Challenge, may be just what you need this November! What is NaNoWriMo?
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