After four glorious years of failure, I’ve won the annual Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku Contest!
Organised by the American Copy Editors Society, the contest is pretty self-explanatory: you tweet a haiku about grammar, and then you tweet half a dozen more, and then maybe one of them turns out to be kind of OK. And apparently it did:
I also took fifth place with this one:
So I guess that means that on average I’m third?
Anyway, I’m thrilled to bits. My thanks to ACES (especially Mark Allen) and the judges (Adriana Cloud, Corrie Loeffler, Laura Poole, Carol Saller and Karen Yin), and my awe to the other entrants (as always, there are some truly brilliant little works of beauty and genius).
These are my efforts from previous years:
Stroppy Editor 
Comments
These are all good, and I agree that the first is awesome, first class haiku.
How did the hyphen haiku not win?????
Brilliant!
I still laugh (out loud, even!) at the “could care fewer” haiku. Congrats!
Are there some missing links and/or content in this post? “I also took fifth place with this one:” and “These are my efforts from previous years:” do seem to imply that they were intended to provide a path to be followed.
There are tweets there. Sorry they’re not showing up for you – that must make the post pointless! I’m afraid I have no idea why they aren’t displaying at your end or how to fix this…
Ah. Probably either the ad-blocker, pop-up blocker, or Flash. Let me tinker a bit.
Ad-blocker was the villain.
Pfffft. I did mean to say “congratulations” too!
Congratulations! Thanks for the smile today. Continue to share.
Congratulations! Thank you for the smile today. Continue to share