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A dibber or dibble or dibbler is a pointed wooden stick for making holes in the ground so that seeds, seedlings or small bulbs can be planted. Dibbers come in a variety of designs including the straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped dibber.
On Dec. 7 at North Henderson High School, 11th grader Citlally Diaz, 17, was honored for winning one of just four $3,000 scholarship grand prize awards out of thousands of entries across the country.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Lambda Literary Award - for works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes; Lannan Literary Award for Poetry – comes with $150,000; Letter Review Prize for Poetry - $1000 USD + Publication First Prize. All entries considered for publication. Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry
The International Imitation Hemingway Competition, also known as the Bad Hemingway Contest, was an annual writing competition begun in Century City, California.Started in 1977 as a "promotional gag", [1] and held for nearly thirty years, the contest pays mock homage to Ernest Hemingway by encouraging authors to submit a 'really good page of really bad Hemingway' in a Hemingway-esque style.
The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest was formed in 1982. The contest, sponsored by the English Department at San Jose State University, recognizes the worst examples of "dark and stormy night" writing. It challenges entrants to compose "the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels."
The Southeast Review continues the contest but has increased the maximum to 500 words. [10] In 1996 Stern published Micro Fiction: an anthology of really short stories drawn, in part, from the contest. [11] It was not until 1992, however, that the term "flash fiction" came into use as a category/genre of fiction.
Bulb Energy, a British-based energy supplier (2013–2023) The Better Use of Light Bulbs Act (BULB Act), an unenacted U.S. federal legislative proposal; Bulbs, a slang term for testicles. Bulbus glandis