Name that Christmas Movie Contest
What is your favorite Christmas movie? I checked four websites and found four quite different lists.
The challenge of this contest: Write a story or a poem based on the words listed below. All the words are found in the top 10-11 best Christmas movies of all time from Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, Esquire, and/or Good Housekeeping.
The rules:
1. You must use AT LEAST ten of the listed words. There's a good variety of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
2. Either fiction, nonfiction, or poetry is acceptable.
3. Prose must be a minimum of 500 words.
4. Poetry should be 40 lines maximum.
5. Highlight the chosen words in the text and include them in your author notes.
6. Your entry doesn't have to be about Christmas.
Words, in alphabetical order:
1. alone (from Home Alone)
2. babes (from Babes in Toyland)
3. bad (from Bad Santa)
4. before (from Nightmare Before Christmas)
5. brown (from Charlie Brown's Christmas)
6. carol (A Christmas Carol)
7. corner (The Shop Around the Corner)
8. Die (Die Hard)
9. express (Polar Express)
10. inn (Holiday Inn)
11. invented (The Man Who Invented Christmas)
12. meet (Meet Me in St. Louis)
13. plane (Planes, Trains and Automobiles)
15. red-nosed (Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer)
17. stole (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
18. story (A Christmas Story)
19. street (Miracle on 34th Street)
20. vacation (National Lampoon's A Christmas Vacation)
21. white (White Christmas)
22. wonderful (It's a Wonderful Life)
The contest winner will win half of the prize pool which is based on the number of entries. The second and third place winners will each share the remaining prize pool. The prize pool is currently 55.00 member dollars. There are 7 spots still open. If all open spots are used the prize pool will be 90.00 member dollars. In this contest at least 5 submissions must be made for the vote to begin.
Deadline: Contest is closed. Deadline was Thursday, December 26, 2019.
Full Contest Listing
The challenge of this contest: Write a story or a poem based on the words listed below. All the words are found in the top 10-11 best Christmas movies of all time from Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, Esquire, and/or Good Housekeeping.
The rules:
1. You must use AT LEAST ten of the listed words. There's a good variety of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
2. Either fiction, nonfiction, or poetry is acceptable.
3. Prose must be a minimum of 500 words.
4. Poetry should be 40 lines maximum.
5. Highlight the chosen words in the text and include them in your author notes.
6. Your entry doesn't have to be about Christmas.
Words, in alphabetical order:
1. alone (from Home Alone)
2. babes (from Babes in Toyland)
3. bad (from Bad Santa)
4. before (from Nightmare Before Christmas)
5. brown (from Charlie Brown's Christmas)
6. carol (A Christmas Carol)
7. corner (The Shop Around the Corner)
8. Die (Die Hard)
9. express (Polar Express)
10. inn (Holiday Inn)
11. invented (The Man Who Invented Christmas)
12. meet (Meet Me in St. Louis)
13. plane (Planes, Trains and Automobiles)
15. red-nosed (Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer)
17. stole (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
18. story (A Christmas Story)
19. street (Miracle on 34th Street)
20. vacation (National Lampoon's A Christmas Vacation)
21. white (White Christmas)
22. wonderful (It's a Wonderful Life)
The contest winner will win half of the prize pool which is based on the number of entries. The second and third place winners will each share the remaining prize pool. The prize pool is currently 55.00 member dollars. There are 7 spots still open. If all open spots are used the prize pool will be 90.00 member dollars. In this contest at least 5 submissions must be made for the vote to begin.
Deadline: Contest is closed. Deadline was Thursday, December 26, 2019.
