Blog Event Listings

Jump-start your entry into the blogging community by participating in a blog event or challenge! Entering events is a great way to connect with like-minded bloggers, find great new blogs to read, and attract new readers to your own site. Scroll through the listings below, or use ctrl-F to search for a specific term (phoneography, poetry, etc.) within the page.

Events are recurring unless specifically noted as one-time events. Recurring events are listed according to the days of the week they run, and one-time events in reverse chronological order.

(Do you run a blog event? Submit your listing here!)

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Photography & Visual Arts

My Home Town

Event Type: Photography

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: Every Sunday I run a photo post called “My Home Town” which features a picture from…you guessed it…my home town. I encourage you to do the same, and share a link with us!

The blogging community is filled with people from all over the world. One of my joys is to browse through other blogs that show unique photos of where they live. What better way to learn about the world than through these blogs and what better way to learn about the flavor of each place than by someone who lives there and knows it?

Organizer: Days of Photographs

Visit organizing blog each Sunday for the week’s instructions

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A Week of…

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: Each week I post a theme and add a photograph a day within that topic. Sometimes the links are tenuous – it all adds to the fun. Join in by posting once a week or every day – the choice is yours.

Organizer: A Post a Day

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Black and White Sunday Blog Hop

Event Type: Photography

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: A once a week event to step out of your comfort zone and experiment with black and white photography and the challenges and techniques that go along with it.

Please keep words at a minimum, if you use them at all. Link back to the co-hosts and share the badge. Photos must be black and white.

Organizer: Dachshund Nola

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Christspiration Photo Challenge

Event Type: Photography

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: If you are a seasoned photographer or an amateur or simply just a lover of photography, keep your eyes open for opportunities to capture the beauty around you that you deem to be a reflection of the beauty of Christ.

This event will be on-going and submissions may be posted with the following tags: Photospiration, Christspiration Photo Challenge and Christspiration along with a pingback to my blog. Submissions may also be emailed to christspiration.com@gmail.com.

The top ten photos of the week will be highlighted on Sundays.

Organizer: Christspiration

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Phoneography Challenge: The Phone as Your Lens

Event Type: Photography

Start Date: Mondays, recurring weekly

Description: Mobile Phoneography allows us to capture instantly the fleeting moment. This technology has reinvented photography, creating the best of all possible worlds, where we always have a camera with us. Please join the fun and use the Phone as Your Lens.

Each Monday a theme will be posted. You can publish your entry at any time, preferably on Monday or by Sunday of the week of the theme. Please add details about what you used to take your photo and/or edit (apps, brand of phone…). We also encourage you to provide a link back to one of the organizers’ blogs, where the rules can be reviewed. The monthly schedule, which is consistent, is:

1st Monday: Nature

2nd Monday: Macro

3rd Monday: Black-and-White

4th and 5th Mondays: Challenger’s Choice (Pick One: Abstraction, Architecture, Food Photography, Night Photography, Portraiture, Still Life, Street Photography, and Travel

Organizer: Lens and Pens by Sally

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Quarksire’s Magnanimous Mondays Heartfelt Photo Challenge

Event Type: Photography

Start Date: Monday, recurring weekly

Description: Where things jest Flow an Flow! Fotos an a story fer fun weekly!

Frum Da’ Heart Liketh frum da’ fiery Volcano! Simple but Quarked minds: Gettin it offa da’ mind is what its all bout weekly here!Magnanomous is bout whats on da mind!on mindfull mundayz!

Where Werdz flow an Every Picture tells a Story! Tell ur story here Gewd bad er indifferent, with photos an a story weekly, jest fer fun!

So; wit a bita Compassion ; it is born ; Magnanomous Mundacities; 4 a Magnanomous Mondays Photo Challenge

All 4 a bita fun to see what happens; Puttin it out dere’to see whats on everyones mind, gewd bad er indifferent weekly, okay keep it kleen folks ok! an have fun coming round 🙂

of course ping backs welcome what comez round goes round the house of values in da wild werld of da’ quasicle Q

Organizer: Quarksire

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A Word A Week Photography Challenge

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Tuesday, recurring weekly

Description: One a week I dip into my dictionary and pick a word the page falls open at. The challenge is to post a picture, or use any other genre, to demonstrate that word.

On your post please include a link back to my original challenge page so others can follow the link and enjoy other entries or participate. I like to promote new bloggers and will pick a couple of entries a week to share with my community.

Organizer: A Word in Your Ear

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One Word Photo Challenge

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Tuesday, recurring weekly

Description: The weekly challenge will begin every Tuesday. Future topics are already posted so you have time to shuffle through your image database or to create new work.

Each topic is only one word (roughly), hence the name of the challenge 🙂

To participate:

• Create a new post on your blog titled “One Word Photo Challenge:______________.” I.e., for the first week’s challenge, your post would be called “One Word Photo Challenge: Magenta”
• Include an image or images that you feel fit the theme
• Tag your post with “One Word Photo Challenge” so that others can find your contribution
• Have fun!

Organizer: Jennifer Nichole Wells

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Event Type: Photo Challenge

Start Date: Tuesday, recurring weekly

Description: Each week I will have a specific theme.

One way I learned about photography is by appreciating other people’s work and getting a chance to see through someone else’s eye for a brief moment in time. Challenges are a great way to see other people’s photography and sharpen my own photographic skills at the same time.

Post in responses to the theme, and then leave a link to your entry in the comment section of the challenge post.

Organizer: Cee’s Photography

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Snappy H’appy Photo Challenge

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Wednesday, recurring weekly

Description: Snap it, App it, Link it.

 In this photo challenge, you can use any equipment to take the photo you submit (pin-hole camera anyone? :P) … anyway, there is no restriction whether it is a DSLR or a smartphone, etc. This challenge will likely run for 3 months/12 weeks and then we will review the 12 week’s worth of work for each challenger.

CHALLENGE OBJECTIVES

1) Generate a set of 12 Photos of the Week per challenger by the end of the challenge

2) Inspire the generation of a set of 12 alternative app-ed versions of these photos

(Note: The set of 12 may be that or less per participant as consistent participation is not compulsory :P)

HOW TO PLAY

Each week the challenge post will be published on Wednesday, with a highlight app or app feature of the week.

1) Pick your ONE original photo to feature for the week.

2) Create a post with your photo of the week and an alternative app-edited version

3) Link it to the challenge post of the week, and leave your link in the comments.

4) Be nice and Interact! Visit the two hosts of the challenge and at least one other participant of the challenge.

Organizers: Firebonnet and Donna’s Human

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Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Wednesday, recurring weekly

Description: You can post pictures of your pets, or even your friends’ and families’ pets, or you can post pictures of animals that you have photographed such as wild life pictures.

I have feeders in my front garden, and often birds will come and eat the fruit I have left for them – such pictures are also totally welcome. Basically, anything to do with animals will be perfect. Once you’ve posted, leave a link on the organizer’s blog so you can be added to the roundup of posts.

Organizer: Hope the Happy Hugger

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Wed Photo Word Association Challenge

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Wednesday, recurring weekly

Description: Participants are given a weekly theme on Wednesday and have to post a photo depicting that theme. They may post 1 photo and vote for their own photo once.

Participants have until Tuesday of the following week at 10 pm est to post a photo to go with the theme and to vote for other photos in the event.

The winner is notified by me Tuesday night and their winning photo along with a bio on the photographer including websites is highlighted on the site Wed Photo Word Association Challenge on the following day along with the new theme for the week.

Only photography is permitted, no animated photos, videos, posting of sexually explicit depictions or images deemed inappropriate will be allowed. Be sure to offer positive feedback on fellow photographers’ work! Negative comments and cursing aren’t allowed. This is a positive, supportive environment for all! 🙂

Organizer: A Veil of Enlightenment

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Which Way Challenge

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Wednesday, recurring every two weeks

Description: A photo challenge that runs every other week. “Which Way” is a term taken from a photo group, which I hosted a few years ago. The idea behind this challenge is to show roads, bridges, walkways, stairs/steps, railtracks. I also allow signs of any nature. Keeping an eye out for different Which Ways gives me a new way of looking at how we move around and what wonderful ways we have found ways to travel as well as beautify our world. The possibilities are endless.

Here is a list of possible subjects for you to keep in mind as you are out on photo shoots.

• Roads (gravel, asphalt, cobbled, dirt), Freeway, Expressway, Highway, Bridges
• Sidewalks, Indoor Walkways (hallways, aisles, people movers, breezeway), Paths (walking, bicycling), Elevators
• Stairs, Escalators, or Steps: indoors, outdoors
• Trails, Railway Tracks, Runways
• Signs of any kind (directional, informational, store front), Maps that are posted as signs
• Parking lots, Private driveways, Tunnels
• Any photo taken from your windshield or within your vehicle or public transportation

Organizer: Cee’s Photography

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Black & White Challenge

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Wednesday, recurring every other week

Description: A photo challenge that runs every other week.

This black and white challenge is topic related.  For a list of upcoming topics, please see the list on the organizer’s blog.

Be creative and challenge yourself.  Look for contrast or highly textured subjects to shoot. Hopefully you will find your creative eye will be expanded. Please do not use sepia tones (brown).

ENJOY and have FUN. To participate:

• Create a Cee’s Black & White Challenge post
• Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
• To make it easy for others to check out your photos and post, give your blog post the “Cee’s Black & White Challenge” tag.

Organizer: Cee’s Photography

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Thursday’s Special

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description: It is a new ‘non-challenge’ challenge that appeals to bloggers eager to wake up their creativity and show their own ideas and interpretation of the world. I invite everybody interested to join in.

There are no themes, titles and techniques set for your expression, there are no limits and restrictions (no red tape whatsoever). The only thing required is to post a photo post on Thursdays entitled “Thursday’s Special: (your theme/title),” to provide a link to my Thursday’s Special post, and to leave a link to your post in the comments section of my post.

Organizer: Lost in Translation

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Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge

Event Type: Photography

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description: Odd Ball Photos are those great photos that you take which really don’t seem to fit into a common category. We’ve all taken them and like them, because we just can’t hit delete and get rid of them. If you have any of those type of photos, this challenge is for you.

Odd Balls can highlight your pet being totally silly or a faucet in your bathroom.

Photos with one odd item among among common items counts too.

You can just see what is around your and snap or take the time to stage an odd ball photo.

Organizer: Cee’s Photography

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Time Out for Art

Event Type: Art & Illustration

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description: Originally planned to pair one drawing with one quote every week, this series inspired others who volunteered to post drawings as well!

The weekly posts that followed nudged others to take a timeout for art. By the end of the first month, the Timeout for Art became much more than a short quote and drawing! (Not spam, I promise!)

Many have thanked me for helping them return to their art. Some have discovered talents they never dreamed they possessed! It’s been an honor to witness the enthusiasm from beginners and from professionals as they post their drawings each week.

Join us each week for a Timeout for Art!

Organizer: Playamart

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Look Up, Look Down

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description: Please join in with photographs taken from an up or down perspective. All topics welcome.

Once your post is published on your own blog, come over here, leave a comment and add your post’s URL to the linky list (visit the event details post for full instructions). A thumbnail of your selected photo will be displayed to encourage others to check out your post too. Happy Blogging!

Organizer: Travel with Intent

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Thursday Lingering Look at Windows

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description: It’s easy to participate in this challenge! Each Thursday morning I will post my own Thursday Lingering Look at Windows, then sometime within the week you can leave your link on that post in the comment box.

Please tag your post Thursday Lingering Look at Windows so that we may more easily find and peek at each other’s Windows.

Organizer: Lingering Visions

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The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography! Here’s how it works:

1. Each Friday at noon, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (in a new post, please!) anytime before the following Friday, when the next photo theme will be announced.

2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday tag.

Organizer: The Daily Post

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Sketching Fire Sketchbook Challenge

Event Type: Visual Arts

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: Once a week on Friday the title of my post will be the “theme” for the week of creativity.

Take your time to determine the direction, interpretation and the many nuances of the word of the theme word. It is all relative to the individual…take it where you want it to go, let it breathe and grow…let it burst into flame. Begin to develop your sketchbook for the challenge whenever you are ready. There is no limit to the number of sketchbook pages devoted to the theme of the week…create as many or as few as you wish. Post your themed sketchbook entry on your blog either as you go so we can follow the process or in one marvelous giant sweeping post at the end of the week….always be sure to drop in here to post a link to your sketchbook entry in the comments of the week’s theme. Share your ideas, your progress and your thoughts on each theme. That way we can all find you and celebrate your creative fire.

My own sketchbook will be digital using a Cintiq tablet and Photoshop. BUT: Please do not feel limited to the digital medium. Traditional sketchbooks in their many, many facets are just fine and fantastic in fact.

The Goal of this challenge is to develop each our own sketchbook journal filled with brilliant glowing creativity….a stepping stone to future creative projects even. It is an opportunity to light up the blank pages with creative fire, to inspire and motivate each other and celebrate each other’s baby steps that will grow into vast sweeping strides into Sketching Fire.

It sounds a bit grandiose but grandiose is indeed what happens when one allows one’s creativity to flow unbridled.

Organizer: Sketching Fire

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Culture Weekly Capture

Event Type: Photography & Visual Arts

Start Date: Saturday, recurring weekly

Description: Hello, Bonjour, Hola, Mabuhay!

Here in The Mixed Culture our mission is to share interesting things about different cultures, inspire others to see, experience & appreciate the uniqueness of other cultures…to go beyond culture. We are inviting you to join us by sharing us your thoughts through photography that depict culture. It can be about your own culture, from the country you’re currently living in, the “pop culture” or your own interpretation of culture. Show us things that you think will help us to understand a culture different from our own. Or, guide us through your photos to some of the amazing places that only locals know about, food worth trying when someone is visiting a new place, traditions to know about in a country….anything you would like us to know about your culture.

So, here’s how we roll:

1. Every Saturday we’ll give a theme for the week. You take photographs according to your interpretation of the theme of the week to showcase your (a) culture. Then, make a new post anytime during the week before the following Saturday.

2. Name your post “Culture Weekly Capture: (theme of the week)” so we can check-out your photos. Write something about the photo (to understand how is it related to your culture) and use the tag “culture weekly capture”. You can also link, Trackback or pingback us so we can hop in to your post.

3. Finally, don’t forget to follow us The Mixed Culture to get the latest weekly theme, and subscribe to our posts via e-mail.

We hope to see your culture through your photographs…Go and Happy Culture Capturing. 🙂

Organizer: The Mixed Culture

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Conejo Blanco Blog Hop Photo Challenge

Event Type: Photo Challenge

Start Date: First Day of Each Month

Description: On the 1st of each month, a theme is provided to inspire you to post your own interpretation of the CBBH Photo Challenge. Contributors are asked to create their own blog post before the end of the month and entitle it: “CBBH Photo Challenge: (subject of the month)”.

At the end of your post you should introduce links to two other blogs you have visited and commented on during the past month. That way, when we visit each other, we can HOP OVER to your links, connect with others, and share a little blog love around.

Link back to the monthly CBBH Photo Challenge post and leave a comment with your link so I can find you. If you add the tag “CBBH Photo Challenge” others will find your post, too.

Hopefully everyone taking part will enjoy the exposure the CBBH Photo Challenge offers to featured blogs and, who knows, you may end up finding a new favourite!

Organizer: East of Malaga

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Lingering Look at Architecture

Event Type: Photo Challenge

Start Date: First Day of Each Month

Description: Every month on the 1st of the month I post my own vision of the theme for that month. Use that post to tag your own for pingbacks and trackbacks or feel free to post your link in the comments. You can post as many or as few times as you like during the month but come the first day of the next month the new theme will be up.

Organizer: Lingering Visions

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100 Steps

Event Type: Photo Challenge

Start Date: First Day of Each Month

Description: Every month on the 1st of the month I post my own vision of the theme for that month. Use that post to tag your own for pingbacks and trackbacks or feel free to post your link in the comments. You can post as many or as few times as you like during the month but come the first day of the next month the new theme will be up.

Organizer: Chittle Chattle

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Destino’s Black & White Photo Challenge

Event Type: Photo Challenge

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: Post your photographs. Link back to the Black & White Challenge page. Black & white photos only. Thanks!

Organizer: Destino

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Tired Toddler Thursdays

Event Type: Photo Challenge

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description: Although the title is about toddlers, you do not have to have children to participate! This weekly photo challenge is mainly about sleep — take photos of you child, spouse, pet, friend, etc. while they are sleeping (make sure it’s okay with them!) and post them.

1. Although the challenge creator tries to take a photo for each night of the previous week, this is not a requirement. You can take one photo or 10 (or more, or less) — so long as your subject is sleeping.
2. Create your own post including the photo(s), and a description or story about the photo if you’re feeling extra creative.
3. Include a pingback to the Tired Toddler Thursdays page.

Organizer: Nonsense and Shenanigans

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RonovanWrites Weekly Wordless Haiku Challenge

Event Type: Photo Challenge

Start Date: Monday, 9:00 EST, recurring weekly

Description: This is Haiku poetry in a new form, without words. That’s right, instead of words you use images.

The rules are simple: The Challenge will come out at 09:00 Monday EST or New York time.

No words or numbers of any kind can appear in the images you use. This includes sign language . . . of any kind.

Here’s the challenge; You create your own wordless Haiku for Wednesday or any day really, then post a link in the comments of the Weekly Challenge Post for everyone that visits to go see.

You can also do a pingback (or copy the URL for this post into your Haiku post) to the Weekly Challenge Post  in your Haiku post. But that’s not really a must at all.

Once you’ve posted your Wordless Haiku, get your Badge.

I will read it and comment on it. And then do a Weekly wrap up of my favorites in a post with ping backs to those Haiku that jumped out at me. Categories to come to help all of us know better what this means, such as Most Creative, Most Artistic, Most Insanely Difficult (Please, don’t intentionally go for that last one).

Organizer: Ronovan Writes

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Poetry, Fiction, and Flash Fiction

The Speakeasy

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction, Poetry

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description:  Every Sunday we post the prompts for the coming week’s challenge. Prompts consist of a sentence and a media prompt (picture, music, video, etc.).

Participants can submit fiction or poetry up to a 750 word limit – and you have until Wednesday at midnight EST to link up. Winners are selected by popular vote, which takes place on Thursday, and results are posted Fridays at noon.

On weeks when we have 10 or more participants, the Speakeasy editors will also select an Editors’ Pick.

Organizer: yeah write

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The Sum of Everything

Event Type: Poetry

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description:  A weekly poetry contest running from when posted Sunday until 11:59pm Saturday.

Rules:

1. Use the mandatory word.

2.Your response must consist of either 42 syllables, words, or sentences.

3.1 Entry per person.

4.Include an email address.

5.Winners will be announced the following Sunday.

Organizer: Musings of a Soul Eclectic

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Featured Fiction

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: Featured Fiction is a contest based site, designed to assist with the creation of great plots, tantalising characters, writer’s block, and to provide inspiration for readers and writers alike.

There’s nothing like a good writing prompt to help stretch our wings and push those boundaries. Here at Featured Fiction, a prompt will be provided every Sunday and voting will begin on the Saturday of that week.

The rules of the contests are simple:

1. Reply to the prompt in whatever way you see fit – you have poetic licence as long as you follow the theme.

2. Read and review other entries, and remember to be respectful and offer constructive feedback.

3. Link your post to the current prompt, and enter the contest.

4. Winners will be announced as soon as the vote has been cast and featured on the site.

Organizer: Featured Fiction

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What If? Writing Challenge

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: I will post a what if question on Sunday every week. Scenarios will be a little more creative/ridiculous than normal writing prompts. Posts accepted until midnight on Thursdays eastern time. Add link to original challenge and add tag whatifchallenge to post. Anything goes.

Organizer: Okay, What If?

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Genre Haiku Challenge

Event Type: Poetry

Start Date: Recurring monthly

Description: Write a haiku . Link up and tag the post #RSRgenrehaiku. That’s all there is to it. Check back on December 1st for a new genre haiku challenge!

Organizer: Rob’s Surf Report

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Bastet’s Sunday Power Shorts

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: A Power Short is a complete short story, as short as possible. They should have a beginning, middle, and end, showing some change in a character due to an apparent or implied conflict. The story should have around 100 words; definitely not more than 120.

Each week, we will provide a theme and/or photos as inspiration. Publish your story, tag it with “13th Floor Paradigm Power Shorts,” and add your post to the list of links on the original prompt (instructions on the organizing blog).

Organizer: 13th Floor Paradigm

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Trifecta

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Mondays and Saturdays, recurring weekly

Description: Each week, we provide two writing challenges. Our weekday challenge provides a one-word prompt and asks contributors to submit a piece of writing that is between 33 and 333 words, using the third definition of the prompt word. Our weekend challenges vary from week to week but always involve the number three somehow.

Organizer: Trifecta Writing Challenge

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Quotespiration

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Mondays, recurring weekly

Description: Quotespiration is a weekly writing challenge running Monday to Sunday. Each Monday I post a literary quote to inspire you!

To participate write a Flash Fiction piece (1000 words or less) based on the published quote. Tag your post quotespiration and upload a link to your post on challenge home page. Then vote on your favorite entries.

Voting will run the week following each Quotespiration Challenge and the winning piece will be announced when voting closes.

Organizer: Anecdote Love

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gargleblaster 

Event Type: Flash Fiction

Start Date: Monday, recurring weekly

Description:  The gargleblaster is yeah write’s weekly micro-blog/micro-fiction challenge. Every Monday we provide you with a question, which you must answer in exactly 42 words. The gargleblaster accepts fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as long as the post responds to the prompt and is exactly 42 words – no more, no less. We’ll count them.

Prompt schedule:

Monday, 12:00 AM Eastern: Challenge opens

Tuesday, 11:59 PM Eastern: Challenge closes

Wednesday, 12:00 AM Eastern: Voting opens

Wednesday, 10:00 PM Eastern: Voting closes

Thursday, 12:00 PM Eastern: Winners posted

Organizer: yeah write

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Prompted

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Description:  Prompted is a weekly writing prompt series that spotlights short stories written by bloggers.

HOW IT WORKS:

Every Monday we post a writing a prompt. Bloggers then write a story based on the prompt and publish it on their blogs. On Friday, we post a link up where bloggers link their stories. On Saturday, we create a poll based on the stories that have been linked the day before. Whichever story wins the poll will be published on tipsylit.com the following Sunday.

Organizer: Tipsy Lit

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Fiction in 50: Communal Flash Fiction

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Mondays, recurring the last full week of each month

Description: Create a post featuring a piece of fiction in 50 words or less, then link back to the main post at The Bookshelf Gargoyle, so others can see the fruits of your mini-labour!

A different prompt is listed for each month, but entries outside the prompts are welcome too.

Current/upcoming prompts include:

• September — Unconventional Relationships
• October — Monumentally Awkward
• November — Past Regrets
• December — Reflections

Organizer: The Bookshelf Gargoyle

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Song Title Challenge

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Mondays, recurring weekly

Description: Every Monday I post a short piece of fiction, about 300 words, using a song title and genre suggested by a reader.

If you want to join in, post your own story using that title on your blog (you don’t have to use the prescribed genre if you don’t want to) and link back to the original post so other readers can find and comment on your attempt as well.

I welcome constructive criticism on my own attempts and am happy to provide the same to others who participate.

Organizer: KokkieH

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Write Now! Prompts

Event Type:  Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Tuesdays and Fridays, recurring weekly

Description: Prompts are posted twice a week. Write in any format or style you wish: short story, poem, script – whatever you like. Write for at least 5 minutes. There is no time limit – write for as long as you wish! Editing is not required, though we do recommend that you run a spell check at least.

Post your work to your blog and include a link back here so your readers can find other writer’s work, too. Come back to the prompt post and provide a link to your work on the Write Now! prompt for which it was written. Read other authors’ posts and leave constructive comments.

Organizer: Today’s Author

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Back Story

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description: Each week, I’ll post a new photo. Instead of asking for captions, I thought I would take it one step further and ask for a “back story.”

hose who accept the challenge need to give substance to this still photo…history, a back story.

Organizer: Glass o’ Scotch

Visit the hosting blog each Thursday for challenge details and complete instructions.

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Friday Fictioneers

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: Friday Fictioneers is flash fiction blog challenge. Every week I post a photo prompt. Most photos are submitted by participants. The challenge is to write a 100 word flash fiction inspired by the photo.

To be included, please post your entry by the following Tuesday evening, via the Linkz button on the challenge post (full instructions are available on the host blog).

Organizer: Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Visit the hosting blog each Friday for challenge details and complete instructions.

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Writing Room 101 Writing Challenges

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction, Poetry

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: Every Friday we will create a prompt, which is related to the fantasy genre. We will also offer an optional sentence starter, which can appear anywhere in the story or poem.

Voting will begin on the following Thursday and results will be circulated before the new challenge on Friday of that week. The winning entry will be featured on the site, and form part of the catalogue within our readers’ section.

Organizer:  Writing Room 101

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Friday Fiction Link-Up

Event Type: Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: Weekly fiction link up, for the opportunity to share short stories or works of creative fiction with others. To participate:

• Short stories or extract from a longer story or novel
• Max 1000 words
• Read and comment on other posts in the link-up
• Link back to Friday Fiction post or grab the Friday Fiction button from side bar

Stories will be shared on Twitter, using #fridayfiction

Organizer:  Nikki Young Writes

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Poetic Duets

Event Type: Poetry

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: Whether you love poetry or not, writing a poetic duet is a great way to get to know someone. If you would like to give it a try and write one with me I will be posting one every Friday. I will also add your blog to my Duet Partners page. Let’s see where we end up!

Organizer:  Hastywords

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Monthly Mini Writing Competitions

Event Type:  Fiction & Flash Fiction

Start Date: 1st of the month, recurring monthly

End Date: 24th of the month, recurring montly

Description: This is a monthly mini writing competition for flash fiction of under 500 words and/or poetry on a specific theme.

A writing prompt is set each month and participants should post their entry straight on to the designated Monthly Mini Competition page in the reply section. (Alternatively they can provide a link to the particular entry they are submitting). Each entry is then circulated in a new post if the author is happy for me to do so, but if not they should state that at the time of posting it. All copyright of course remains with the author and the piece is attributed to them at all times.

Entries for each month close on the 24th with a poll then set up and voting open until the end of the month.

The winner of each month then sets the theme for the next month’s competition.

Please note that these competitions are just for fun and are a way for writers to come together and share their work.

Organizer:  Elizabeth Frattaroli

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RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Challenge

Event Type: Poetry

Start Date: Monday, recurring weekly

Description: RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Challenge is a weekly prompt for Haiku in English form. Each Monday two new words are given at 9:00 AM EST or New York time for those who are like me and have no clue what all the letters mean.

The rules are simple.

1.    Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English as my style, but you can use what you like.

2.    The two words can be used as you like. Words have different definitions and you can use the definitions you like. You can even use a synonym word as long as it does not change the meaning.

3.    Copy a link to your finished haiku  in a comment so we can all go and visit your site to see what you have done. I will comment on your site. You can do a ping back, put a link back to the prompt page, if you like within your post, as long as it does not take away from your haiku. I would do it at the very bottom near where one normally puts the copyright. But I am not encouraging anyone to do that. This is just permission to do so. This is simply a prompt and challenge to encourage people to try Haiku and give some a prompt and a place to share in comments so we can find each other.

4.    You may copy the badge appearing in this post and place it on your site if you wish. I am not saying you need to, but if you would like to do so then go ahead. It is simply my way of saying thank you for participating.

5.    At the end of the week I will post a list of my favorites with links to their Haiku. There may be categories coming to make it clearer for you and me as to how this works.

Organizer: Ronovan Writes

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General Blogging

Three Words a Day

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Daily

Description: Inspiration can run on three words a day. Whether you’re working on a poem or a page of fiction or nonfiction, it works! Don’t believe me, just try it!

And that’s all the guidelines really – be inspired! Play! Write a handful of something brilliant, using three of the day’s list of words, in any form of the word! Post it on your blog with the tag “threewordsaday” and a pingback. Post it in the Comments Section.

Enjoy being inspired and inspiring one another!!

Organizer: Three Words a Day

Visit the organizing blog daily for the three inspiration words, and to leave a link to your entry.

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Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Daily

Description: A new challenge every day!

Monday- Wordle

Tuesday- Photo Prompt (I’ll post an image for you to write about (if you are an artist or photographer use this prompt to share your own photos/art)

Wednesday- Haiku/Tanka

Thursday- Short Stories

Friday- Fairytales (children’s stories and comics; you are also welcome to submit fantasy art and photographs. Since this is geared for children please keep the ratings appropriate)

Saturday- Shadorma

Sunday- Theme (all forms of expression allowed)

Each challenge has a time limit of 1 week

Organizer: Mindlovesmisery

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Daily Wisdom

Start Date: Daily

Description: What’s Your Insight Today? The Daily Wisdom below is refreshed and updated daily.

There are six categories:

• Word of the Day
• Quote of the Day
• Article of the Day
• This Day in History
• Today’s Birthday
• In the News

To participate, compose a new post based on the insight, information and/or feeling that you gain from reading one or more of these categories, and tag your post with SoundEagleDailyWisdom or leave a link to your post in the comments below.

Your post should be specifically composed in response to the Daily Wisdom below. In your post, please quote the date, type and content of your chosen category. You can choose more than one category (up to six categories) as the basis for composing your post.

Feel free to link to this page to encourage other people to participate. Time, energy and wisdom permitting, SoundEagle will keep an eye on the SoundEagleDailyWisdom tag and highlight the most noteworthy or exceptional posts.

Organizer: SoundEagle

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Sparky’s Blog Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description:  The challenge: to blog daily, with each post consisting of a minimum of one paragraph, and each paragraph consisting of a minimum of three sentences. Posting a photograph can substitute for up to two of those sentences. The idea is to establish consistency in blogging, knowing that content will almost always improve with consistency.

Anyone can join the group. It doesn’t matter what the focus of your blog is. Each challenge will last for one week, Sunday through Saturday. At the beginning of each week we’ll post a shout-out of that week’s participating bloggers. That means you have to intentionally throw your hat in the ring every week!

Join us in our Facebook group for further encouragement and interaction with other bloggers!

Organizer: Hey Sparky

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Building Rome

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description:  A weekly event to help encourage and motivate people to make and complete goals. A way for other bloggers to encourage and cheer each other on, as they overcome challenges and find success.

How to participate:

1. Make a post with your goals for the week and how well you did with the previous weeks goals!

2. Link back to the weekly event post.

3. Visit other people who have linked or commented and cheer them on!

Organizer: Green Embers

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Achieve a Goal Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description:  The weekly challenge to encourage you in achieving. In a nutshell:

1. Write a To Do List with eight tasks for yourself.

Choose tasks you already wanted to do for awhile, but you didn’t get around to it yet.

2. You have a week per time to pick one of those tasks and finish them

3. You write a blog post about it

4. Then you head over tot the organizer’s blog on Sunday night. You post a short summary with a link to your blog post in the comments.

Why should you even do this?

Because nobody likes to have a backlog or unfinished business. And this is a friendly persuasion challenge to work some of that back log out of the door together.  And sharing the good feeling after we finished a task is way more fun!

Organizer: Mirjam Penning

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Random Moments of Delight

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: This challenge is about sharing moments of delight with each other each week. It could be a photograph, or a description; a video or a poem; a short story or essay, or a combination. Then link up here so we can share in each other’s happy moments.

The rules are simple:

1. In a new post share a treasured moment from your week and “illustrate” it with a photograph, description, poem, short prose, short video, whatever genre fits your moment. If it is visual (photo or video), please tell us why it was special to you.

2. Put a link back to my challenge that week so others may take part if they wish. If you’d like to use the badge, please do.

3. Please use the address of your POST, not your blog, in the linky. Be polite to others so we don’t have to look all over for your post.

The challenge begins on Sunday, but will stay open through Thursday, and a new one will begin the following Sunday. I chose Sunday to set us up for a wonderful week of looking for Random Moments of Delight!

Organizer: Firebonnet

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Sunday Sweets and Smiles

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description:  This event is simple and fun – a way to show what you’ve been loving all week long in a concise blog post.

Step 1: Find something(s) you love or are excited for that you discovered recently.

Step 2: Create a collage or list of these things.

Step 3: Share on your blog; make sure to tag the post with ‘Sunday Sweets and Smiles’ so others can find/enjoy it.

Step 4: Smile.

Here at The Duck and The Owl, we’ve been posting Sunday Sweets & Smiles for some time now and finally had the idea to try and expand it to others, as it really does make us smile.

😀 — See?

Organizer: The Duck & the Owl

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Happy Post Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description:

1. Every week I will give a theme for the “Happy Post Challenge”. You can post pictures, write poems, write your experiences or express yourself in whatever way you can. You have the creative freedom to interpret and represent it in your way.

2. To make it easy for others to find your posts and reach your blog, title your blog post “Happy Post Challenge” and tag it “Happy Post“. Provide a link to the original post so that other people can easily connect and find other happy post as well.

3. You should post your entries any time before the next Sunday when the theme for the next week will be announced.

Organizer: Processing the Life

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Share Your World

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Monday, recurring weekly

Description:  I ask four questions each week. Since blogging is an international activity, I also thought this would be a great way for all of us to get to know each other. I’m definitely a glass half-full type of person, so all the questions will be upbeat, non-political, and hopefully fun for all.

To participate, create a post that answers the questions, and leave a link to your entry in the comment section of that week’s challenge post.

Organizer: Cee’s Photography

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The Daily Post Weekly Writing Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Monday, recurring weekly

Description:  Each Monday at noon, we’ll announce a new challenge, asking you to respond to a particular question, to write within a set of parameters, or to use a new WordPress.com feature. To participate, write a post that responds to the challenge, and tag your posts with DPchallenge or leave a link to your post in the comments. Please be sure your post has been specifically written in response to the challenge.

Editors’ favorite entries will be featured on Freshly Pressed the Friday after the challenge, as well as in the monthly Daily Post newsletter.

Organizer: The Daily Post

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Monday Meetings Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Monday, recurring weekly

Description:  Starting on March 3, 2014, I will post a simple question or a couple of words. The prompt will be posted each Monday by the end of the day. It will be for 52 weeks, so the last prompt will be given on February 23, 2015.

Sometimes I will give an explanation of the prompt, but for the most part you can interpret the prompt however you want. You may write as much or little as you would like about the subject. Writing, pictures, poems, anything is accepted.

In your blog entry be sure to leave a link to that week’s post, so that I and other participants may see your answer for that day. Pingbacks are good! 🙂

Organizer: Niki’s Thoughts

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Prompts for the Promptless

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Tuesdays at 11:30PM PST, recurring weekly

Description: “Prompts for the Promptless” is a weekly prompt link up, focused on sharing perspectives and expanding minds.

A new prompt is posted to every Tuesday at 11:30pm PST. Every episode shares a concept, complete with a super-simplified definition and suggested prompts. Then it’s your turn -– use a prompt, create your own, write a poem, post a picture, tell a story, or do whatever you feel inspired to do.

– Everyone is welcome to be Prompted.

– Tag your posts with “ForThePromptless” so others can find you.

– Link back to the prompt post or leave a comment with your link, so I can find you. If you do that, and give me a day, you’ll find your link in this post, as well as the sidebar over at GraysonQueen.wordpress.com and Rarasaur.wordpress.com.

– You may participate as many times as you’d like.

Organizer: The Queen Creative

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yeah write Weekly Writing Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Tuesday, recurring weekly

Description:  Yeah write weekly writing challenge is a collection of your very best personal essays and traditional blog anecdotes.

• Your post can be no longer than 600 words
• There are no weekly prompts; the topic is yours
• The challenge is open from Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. to Wednesday at 11:59 p.m.
• There is voting. Voting will take place Thursday from midnight to 10:00 p.m. US eastern
• The challenge grid is limited to 50 bloggers
• The winners’ post will be published by noon on Friday

No self-promotional posts are allowed on the yeah write grid, including those containing links to other blog events and Internet contests

Organizer: yeah write

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Two Cents Tuesday

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Tuesday, recurring weekly

Description: So many challenges, so little time… Here’s one that Across the Bored’s Muses are generous enough to provide each week and for which we are ever thankful! The Two Cents Tuesday Challenge would like to know what people around the globe think about those things in life which affect us all, those threads of commonality that binds us together no matter how differently we see them.

Your “two cents” is exactly that – your opinion on the topic posted – it may take any form that you find most expresses your point of view: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay or article by you or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble. As with most things, the choice is yours…

Organizer: Across the Bored

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Tuesday’s A to Z Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Tuesdays, recurring weekly

Description: Every Tuesday I offer the A to Z challenge walking step by step through the alphabet.

Organizer: Flickr Comments

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Bastet’s Pixelventures

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Tuesdays, recurring weekly

Description:  A Weekly Prompt beginning each Tuesday. The participants can use the sample photographs on the post as a literary prompt or they can submit their own photography interpreting the prompt. Example from the past include hobbies, food, summer, fire etc.

While writing your post link the URL of this Pixelventures’ post in your article, this will create a pingbackor once it’s been completed and  published, come here and place your URL in the comments.  Tag your postBastet’s Pixelventures and WeDrinkInspiration.  That’s all there is to it!

Organizer: We Drink Because We’re Poets

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The Big 5 Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Wednesdays, recurring every two weeks

Description:  Who, What, Where, When, Why and sometimes How!

The Big 5 Challenge asks people around the globe to think about the week’s question, sometimes simple, sometimes not, but one that we probably all have an answer to no matter where we are, or how different we may be …

Your answer to the “Big 5” question is exactly that – your point of view on the topic posted – it may take any form that you find most expresses your opinion: a simple sentence in the comment box, a lengthy post extolling your views, a quote, a motto or saying, an essay or article by you or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble. As with most things, the choice is yours…

Organizer: Across the Bored

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Introverts Blog Quietly

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Wednesdays, recurring every two weeks

Description:  Welcome to the Introverts Blog Quietly writing challenge. Every Wednesday I’ll be creating a new writing prompt so that introverts can write about their quiet worlds. IBQ is a way for introverts to share all that goes into living a quiet life. Feel free to be honest, happy, pithy, poignant, cranky, or write a fairy tale if you would like. It all counts.

(Yes, non-introverts are welcome, too.)

Organizer: 61 Musings

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Remember the Time Blog Hop

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description:  Inspired by “Throwback Thursday”, Remember the Time is a monthly romp down memory lane where bloggers write nostalgic posts based on a prompt we announce every third Thursday on our blogs.

We invite you to link to your post on our blogs and check out your fellow participants’ posts. It’s a lot of fun AND a great way to put all your embarrassing photos of you in middle school to good use!

Organizer: The Waiting and Are You Finished Yet

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Dungeon Prompts

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description:  Dungeon Prompts are meant to help with opening the abandoned rooms inside ourselves and dusting them off a bit. Every Thursday morning (PST) I’ll give a prompt that runs for a week, giving you enough time to explore the recesses of your mind and get back with a poem, story, or creative offering.

To participate, all you’ll need to do is:

1. Tag your post with: “DungeonPrompts”

2. Link back to this weekly prompt post in the body of your post

3. Dive deep within and give us a glimpse of your soul!

Organizer: The Seeker’s Dungeon

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Idiot of the Week Blog Hop

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description:  It seems like you can’t swing a purse these days without knocking over four idiots. So let’s all get together and laugh at them with an Idiot of the Week Blog Hop!

You’ll have all week to decide on the biggest idiot in your life, write a hilarious tribute to him or her, and share it through the link up, open Thursdays through Sundays. At the end of the day Monday, I will announce the winner based on the post with the highest number of ‘Likes’.

Organizer: Is everyone an idiot but me?

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Thankful Thursday

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Thursday, recurring weekly

Description:  Promote a spirit of gratitude by posting every Thursday what you are thankful for.

Anyone can participate. You do not have to be a seasoned photographer to join. The post can include one photo or multiple photos. Text-only submissions are accepted as well. Each Thursday, I will post my own “Thankful Thursday” post. Link to my weekly Thursday blog post in the comments section and add the tag “Thankful Thursday” to your post.

When we share what we are thankful for with one another, it’s an opportunity for gratitude to deepen in our heart. It’s also a way to promote the spirit of gratitude in a world of negativity and discontent. It is within a grateful heart that we can find peace, contentment, and an abiding happiness.

Organizer: Momdeavor

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FireFly Weekly Writing Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: The FireFly Weekly Writing Challenge is a way for you to share posts you’re proud of with a wider audience.

To participate, tag your post with FireFlychallenge and include a link to the challenge post on FireFly Dance to generate a pingback. Your posts DO NOT have to specifically written in response to this challenge. We love reading great pieces and any are accepted! We’ll highlight some of our favorites on Friday and in our new Monthly Review.

Want others to critique it? Let us know that too!

Organizer: FireFly Dance

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20/20 Five

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: 20/20 Five is where I pick five questions other bloggers have posted and answer them — and you can answer them too.

To ask a question, fill out the form on the 20/20 Five page. To answer them copy and paste the questions into your own post and link up in that week’s 20/20 Five.

After you’ve linked up (or even if you don’t) take a moment to get to know each other.

Questions post at Noon on Fridays and link up closes at 11:00 pm on Sundays. Be sure to grab the button!

Organizer: 20/20 Hines Sight

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Tipsy Lit Book Club

Event Type: Reading

Start Date: Last Friday of each month at 8:#0PM EST, recurring monthly

Description: Tipsy Lit is an online community of readers, writers and drinkers.  We regularly post book reviews, drink recipes to pair with the perfect book, writing advice and offer our members a place to submit and publish their literary work.

The Tipsy Lit Book Club meets the last Friday of every month at 8:30 PM EST in our discussion forum on our Facebook page. The poll for next month’s book will also be posted Friday evening in the discussion forum and announced on the following Sunday. The new book is always announced on our blog and our social media.

The group is BYOB, so enjoy a glass of your favorite adult beverage while being able to chat about books in the comfort of your own home!

Tipsy Lit loves getting social on Twitter! Come join us for #tipsylitchat every first Friday of the month at 8:#0 PM EST.

Organizer: Tipsy Lit

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Weekend Funny Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description: From Friday Midnight until Sunday Midnight EST Unload and Unwind will host a variety of humourous posts that are anything from a funny story, a classic cartoon or saying even a stand-up clip. Showcase just what makes you laugh and share with all of us the humour that makes you YOU!

All you have to do is respond to at least one of the posts, and when you are ready to load you own post don’t forget to include the URL of the original Weekend Funny Challenge Page.

Organizer: Unload and Unwind

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Hope, Joy, and . . . Chores? A Blog Event

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Ongoing

Description: Surfing around WordPress and the blogging communities, one occasionally stumbles upon a pearl of great price. Pearls that delight the soul, engender camaraderie and inspire creative joy! One of the beauties of blogging is sharing these pearls. In that light, this post is a Blog Event, so that we can share pearls of encouragement with one another.

So, here is your challenge: Write about a time when you needed encouragement and then stumbled upon a pearl of great price. Try to stay within the topics hope, joy and/or expressing love in the mundane (i.e., chores). Your comments should include your story (or a link to your story) and a link to the site that you feel is a pearl. The list will grow and we’ll have a read-a-fest that’s sure to encourage!

Organizer: Joan Warren

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Weekly/Monthly Poetry, Story and Photo Prompts

Event Type: Fiction & Flash FIction, Poetry, Photography, General Blogging

Start Date: Ongoing

Description: Every week We Drink Because We’re Post hosts a poetry prompt (Mondays), Photography/Poetry Prompt (Tuesdays), short story prompt (Wednesdays) as well as hosting a once monthly seven day story challenge. There are no real rules beyond being respectful when critiquing and avoiding trolling at all times. Our expectation: to be able to find your post so we can include you in the results posts each week, whether you pingback to our prompt posts, answer the prompt in the comments section, or use one of our tags (which will be included in the prompt).

Our motivation is simple: we thrive on sharing and casting the spotlight on artists. Why? Because we’re artists, too, and each of us has a healthy respect for how challenging it is to develop one’s skills as an artist as well as make a name for one’s self.

Basically, we’ve been there or we are there, and it never hurts to share and promote artists besides ourselves.

Organizer: We Drink Because We’re Poets

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Weekly Small Pleasures

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Ongoing

Description: Share your happiness!
I find that the small things that make us happy every day are easily forgotten.
This blog event is simply about remembering and sharing those small things that made you happy during the week; things that made you smile, made you laugh, made you do a happy dance…
You can share in any format you like (photo, list, collage, poem, etc).

For people to find your post, tag your post “Weekly Small Pleasures” and link to my most recent post (every Sunday) for a pingback!

Organizer: A New Life Wandering

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Pixel Prose Challenge

Event Type: General Blogging, Photography

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: Capture a shot, use your archives or recycle free public domain images. Then add your Prose.
The Prose must be your own work, and can consist of any form of text – word art, quotes, poetry, haiku, rhyme, short fiction etc.

You have one week the get your entry in, the following week come back and vote for your favourite.

The three entries with the most votes will be featured on Unique Art Chic.

Instructions:

1) Create a new post and title it Pixel Prose Challenge + your post title (one entry only)

2) Tag your post Pixel Prose Challenge

3) If you share to social media sites the hash tag to include is #pixelprosechallenge

4) Link your post URL to the inLinkz grid

5) Display the unique Pixel Prose logo on your post or sidebar

6) Visit the following Sunday. Vote for your favourite post

Organizer: Unique Art Chic

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Confessional

Event Type: General Blogging

Start Date: Ongoing

Description: Confess your secrets, embarrassments, or anything else that could be confessed!
To participate, go to the Confessional page and fill out the form. Most posts will be published on Nonsense & Shenanigans, so you need to decide if you want to remain anonymous or post publicly. Anonymous posts can be emailed. For public posts, you will be added as an author to the blog so you can post under your name. Confessions will be published as they come in, but there will also be a “Short Confessions” weekly feature every Saturday for confessions that are only a few sentences or so, which you can simply email.

Organizer: Nonsense and Shenanigans

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Niche Events

Travel Journey of the Week

Topic: Travel

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description:  Each Sunday morning I will provide a place that will be the inspiration for a blog post. Together, we will go on a journey by sharing experiences and reading posts dedicated to that place. I’m hoping it will be a great resource for anyone visiting that destination or wanting to take a journey in the comfort of their home. Here is the plan:

1. Each Sunday, a place will be set as the theme (it could be a city, landmark, national park, etc.)

2. If you are familiar with the place, and would like to contribute, you will write a post and title it Travel Journey of the Week: (Place).

3. Your post can be any medium that works for you; videos, photos, descriptions, itineraries, personal memories, poems, ticket stubs, etc.

4. Finally, be sure to provide a link back here so everyone can connect and share their own take on the place.

I can’t wait to see what you share!

Organizer: Liberated Traveler

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Run. Blog. Hop.

Topic: Running

Start Date: First day of the month, recurring monthly

Description:  Join our Virtual Running community, a place where runners who blog and bloggers who run can come together to share their experiences and enthusiasm for of all things running!

Register once and then simply RUN your virtual race, BLOG about your experience and HOP over to connect with your fellow runners.

Organizer: Virtual Running UK

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Only a Gardener

Topic: Gardening

Start Date: First day of the month, recurring monthly

Description:  Write a blog with a title starting ‘Only a Gardener…’ detailing one of the crazy things that only a gardener would do. This can be anything from a few words or a picture to a whole blog.

Add a tag of ‘Only a gardener’ so others can search for your blog.

If you don’t have a blog just comment instead to tell us about the crazy things you do in the name of gardening.

Organizer: My Aberdeen Garden

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My Weigh To Lose: Monthly Challenge

Topic: Health / Weight Loss

Start Date: The first day of each month, recurring monthly

Description:  Monthly challenges created to promote health, fitness, weight-loss and everything in between. There are many people out there that need the support and motivation. These challenges are to help those people out and to create a tight group of support from all over the world.

When working on change, we tend to believe that we are alone. You aren’t alone and a lot of us would like to be a better version of ourselves.

Each month, there will be a total of 6 posts initiated. For example:

First month asks the questions:

1.What are your fitness/health/weightloss goals?

2.Why would you like to achieve these goals?

3.Describe your level of fitness activity

4.Describe what types of food you like

5.Write a post about your current stats

6.Why is fitness/health/weightloss important to you?

Each question should be a separate post (I don’t want to see one post with everything thrown in there because I want people to take some actual thought in their answers. Plus it will make the readers keep up and not have too much thrown at us!).

Each Post should have a link (or use the widget) that links to the My Weigh To Lose Challenge page.

Prizes may be handed out once in a while to a few dedicated bloggers (prizes will be raffled based on who posted each month). So make sure to post for each question and link to the page or you wont be placed in the raffle!

All posts should be written within 4 weeks of each other if it’s a monthly challenge. You should not do 2 months of Challenges in 1 month. The challenge is designed to create life style change based on your goals, so don’t rush it all at once!

Organizer: My Weight to Lose

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Soundtrack Sundays

Topic: Music

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description:  Build the Soundtrack of your life-One Week at a time.

Music is personal. Music is powerful. Music is life. Join us, weekly, as we tell the stories of our lives through song.

Every Friday, I will post a prompt on my page. The challenge is to respond to the prompt (on Sunday) with a song, list of songs or song lyrics and then write about it.

There is not length requirement but make sure to tag your post with Soundtrack Sunday. You can create a pingback by including the link to the weekly prompt and then commenting on it with your own link.

Organizer: Indie Ashley

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Manic Mondays

Topic: Parenting

Start Date: Monday, recurring weekly

Description:  This is a link up for any parent that ever feels like some aspect of parenting makes them insane. It can be something as simple as stepping on a lego in the middle of the night, or a serious topic about your teenager. Whatever it is that makes you feel like you are a little bit mad, we want to hear about it! Just link up to the most recent Monday post.

Organizer: Perfection Pending

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Twisted Mix Tape Tuesday

Topic: Music

Start Date: Monday, recurring weekly

Description:  This is a music link-up that goes live on Monday nights at 9pm EST. The rules of Twisted MixTape are as such: Try and create a 5 song mix based on this week’s theme. The theme changes weekly, so check the last post for the list.

Take it easy, make it flow, remember in your mind you are creating your mixtape for a friend, what would he want to hear?

Create your own post and link it up, or put your mix in the comments. If you are going to link-up there must be a song – relating to the theme – in your post. And really, if you’re not ready to link up with us, no worries! We love songs in the comments! So bring it!

Please visit your fellow mix-makers, and if you can, comeback every so often to see if anyone new has arrived. Share this all over the place, the more the merrier!

Organizer: My Skewed View

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Travel Theme of the Week

Topic: Travel

Start Date: Sunday, recurring weekly

Description: Travel is a topic with such great depth. Let’s delve into what makes travel so unique. Each Sunday morning I will provide a travel related theme. All you have to do is share a post about the theme.

Any medium will work because the more diverse the posts, the greater understanding we can have about the topic. Be creative! Include ticket stubs, journal posts, photos, poetry, or whatever your perspective on the subject. Just make sure you share the link on my original post so you can build your audience.

I can’t wait to read what you have to share!

Organizer: Liberated Traveler

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“If We Can Do… So Can You” Blog Challenge

Topic: Travel, Family

Start Date: Tuesday, recurring weekly

Description:  The “We can do it …so can you” is a blog challenge to my fellow RTW (round-the-world) bloggers on the road or recently home. Each week I will choose a different RTW story to highlight.

Submit your entry in any length, style or format you would like. I’m looking for family stories mostly but will consider individuals and couples too. Tell me why, how, where, and be encouraging to others. This is a motivational travel page! New blogs will be chosen on Mondays.

Organizer: The Wayfaring Family

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The Thursday Thrift

Topic: Fashion

Start Date: First and Third Thursday of each month

Description: If you are a fashion blogger, thrifty blogger, lifestyle blogger, or wanna-be any of these, show off your thrifted, fashion finds in an outfit post on the first and third Thursday of the month.

Tag your post with thursdaythrift, and please link back to www.rejoicefortheday.com/thursday-thrift, or grab a badge from my page.

Organizer: Rejoice for the Day

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Monthly Peace Challenge

Topic: Peace

Start Date: First day of each month

Description: Bloggers for Peace is open to anyone who is willing to devote at least one post a month to/for/about peace.

Imagine the impact we could make if everyday the internet would have some new creativity/energy/emotion/positive vibration about peace. Imagine if we linked all these posts together to create a web of peace and positive energy. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one…”

To help inspire the Bloggers for Peace (B4Peace), we will have a Monthly Peace Challenge. To participate, tag your post with B4Peace and make sure you copy your URL to the Linkz collection. Anyone who completes all twelve Monthly Peace Challenges will receive a Free B4Peace T-shirt.

Organizer: Everyday Gurus

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Travel Photo Quiz

Topic: Travel

Start Date: First day of each month

Description: Each month I post a photo of trivial sight somewhere around the globe along with a few clues about its location and ask people to guess where I took that picture. Participants are also asked to post a photo of their own and link it back to my post for me and others to guess.

Organizer: Travelicius

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Vegetarian Recipe Challenge

Topic: Food

Start Date: First day of each month

End Date: Last day of each month

Description: The challenge is simple:

1. Create a new vegetarian recipe without using quorn — any other protein is acceptable;
2. Try to link it to a philosophy or political idea, e.g., feminism, and try to be creative with your naming  — funny or sarcastic or puns all welcome.
3. Post it on the last day of the month;
4. Link to the main event page and repost recipes that inspire you!

Please state how many people the recipe will serve and whether or not you have actually created it yourself, or if it’s an adaptation of someone else’s recipe.

Photos of the final dish optional.

Organizer: The Bouncing Tigger

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Weekly Travel Theme

Topic: Travel, Family

Start Date: Friday, recurring weekly

Description:  Anyone can participate, you don’t need to have a travel or photo blog to join in.

Create a post with your own interpretation of the week’s theme.

Put a link to the travel theme post in your post to create a pingback.

Organizer: Where’s My Backpack?

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One-Time Events

2014 Africa Reading Challenge

Start Date: January 1, 2014

End Date: December 31, 2014

Description: A five-book African Literature Reading Challenge. Eligible books include those which are written by African writers, or take place in Africa, or are concerned with Africans and with historical and contemporary African issues. Note that at least 3 books must be written by African writers. Participants with blogs are encouraged to publish reviews of their selections.

Organizer: Kinna Reads

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Fitness Photo Challenge

Start Date: May 5, 2014

End Date: August 5, 2014

Event Type: Photography

Description: This is a 12-week challenge to help people get moving in any fitness program they choose and to dig out their cameras to document their fitness activities with one photo a week posted on their blog on Mondays with the tagline “FitnessPhotoMondays”

It’s just for fun and to encourage each other as we train for 5-K’s or any summer activities we choose and to have fun exercising, taking pictures and encouraging other bloggers.

Organizer: As My Camera Sees It

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Nothing tickle your fancy? New events are added every day — check back, and you’re sure to find something that gets your creativity flowing!

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