#WEP WINNERS - DECEMBER 2022 "THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE" - AND ANNOUNCING 2023 MOVIE POSTER INSPIRATIONS

HAPPY NEW YEAR, FRIENDS!

We're wrapping up the year 2022 with the "THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE" winner's post. As usual, this prompt took our writers in all different directions. Thanks to all the superbly talented writers who took part, the WEP challenges once again were so very hard to judge.

Thank you, everyone, for your outstanding entries:

Thanks to Jemi, here's a round-up of the taglines for all entries posted:

Denise Covey - Your Face, Your Face, Your Face - More than cooking goes on in the kitchen

Nilanjana Bose - Chiaroscuro - A random photo can open up a can of worms

Yolanda Renée - The First Time - Love defined

Beth Camp - When You Say Yes - Saying yes to a simple request can change your life

Olga Godim - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Kidnapped by a pirate, the Finder can’t resist the pull of her magic

NR Williams - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Love, acceptance, compassion

Hilary Melton Butcher - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Glory Be…a Cruel Unmasking…What a stink for Christmas Joy

Jemi Fraser - Harry’s Mission - Harry's on a mission to see a face for the first time

Roland Clarke - Soul Seeds - Slava Ukrayini

Ornery Owl - First and Last Memories - a tribute in the form of Choka poetry

Pat Garcia - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - He turned to talk to the man on his left side and the full extent of the scar, the zigzagged flesh that marred the terrain of his otherwise sculptured face, had me wondering who could have been so angry as to mark him so brutally.

Bernadette Braganza - I Saw You! - A child’s curiosity leads to an unexpected discovery

Roland Clarke - (Act 3) Swords to Ploughshares - Night Witches look to the Peace after the firestorm

Sonia Dogra - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - We choose to be handcuffed by rolling letters

Sally Stackhouse - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - A forbidden meeting

LG Keltner - Seeing You - The line between love and obsession is easily crossed

J Lenni Dorner - ANTiation - A true face is revealed

Jamie - Face Of Fratricide - What did they expect with a name like King?

Carole Stolz - The First and Only! - Love can be deceitful, even fateful

Shortlist

So many great entries. We had such trouble whittling down our choices. This is our full list, but only 3 could win!

Sonia Dogra

Pat Garcia

Roland C. Clarke

Ornery Owl

Beth Camp

J Lenni Dorner

Carole Stolz

Jamie 

         Bernadette Braganza           

Commenting

Thank you to all those who comment widely, especially those who read and comment even when they do not have an entry in the ring or are unwell. Commenting is super important to us both as feedback towards the improvement of writing craft and as a communication channel for community building.

Sadly, this month as in months past we've had commenting issues. No one's quite sure what is going on, but it is not just a WordPress/Blogger issue. Please check the comments on the WEP post or the C-Box where we posted comments that wouldn't take on blogs. 

Please note that due to incessant spamming issues, we have had to keep comment moderation on. So your comment may not show up right away, but we will get to it soonest possible. We value your comments, please keep them coming. 

The December Prize:

 Award-winning writer and artist Olga Godim is offering to help design a book cover, critique a short story, a flash, or a chapter -  up to you.

Visit Olga's Blog: Olga Godim writing!

NOW LET'S CONGRATULATE THE WINNERS! 

THE WINNER OF THE 

DECEMBER 2022 CHALLENGE, 

THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE, 

IS 

CONGRATULATIONS, PAT

THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE is a heartfelt tome of love.

Nick said - "A sweet portrait of love and devotion. Very nicely done."

PAT, please post this badge and link it to your winning entry. Enjoy the critique prize or pass it on if you’d prefer. We look forward to a guest post here on a topic of your choice soon.

THE RUNNER-UP OF THE

DECEMBER 2022 CHALLENGE IS

ROLAND C. CLARKE -

CONGRATULATIONS, ROLAND!

Thank you for the reading pleasure of SWORDS TO PLOUGHSHARES.

Nick said, "A moving exploration of the human side of war and how love finds a way in the direst circumstances."

Roland, Please take this badge and link it to your winning entry on your blog.

AND FINALLY, THE ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD

FOR THE DECEMBER 2022 CHALLENGE

GOES TO -

BERNADETTE BRAGANZA!

CONGRATULATIONS, BERNADETTE!

Thank you for a sweet Christmas tale of I SAW YOU!

Nick said, “Whimsical and fun. A great antidote to the heavier pieces..”

Bernadette,  please take this badge and link it to your entry on your blog.

Thank you to all our amazing participants for your entries. We read so many magnificent and magnificently varied takes on this month’s prompt!  

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ANNOUNCING

 2023 

AS THE YEAR OF

Movie Prompts 

PLEASE JOIN US!

As it was the Movie Poster we found

most inspiring we'll be starting off

in February with

"GONE WITH THE WIND"

Remember, it's all about what inspires you:

GWTW can be the springboard for a million ideas- civil war, love, the definition of beauty (‘Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful but men seldom realized it..’), racism, slavery, strong women, gun violence, plantations, breaking conventions, the bond between fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, the love for a piece of land, a lament for a vanishing society…alternatively, even an essay on the stars or the film director or the author Margaret Mitchell or some aspect of the making of the film...endless opportunities for creativity.

Post-February 15 to the 17th 2023

See you in the 

NEW YEAR 2023!

Here's to YOU!

Yolanda, for

And before we go, I, (Denise) wish to thank my team for helping me get through a very challenging time which is ongoing. Without them, WEP would not be possible. And how sad not to have this refreshing writing challenge to motivate us to dig deep and learn things about ourselves that surprise us! Thank you to a wonderful bunch of writers who inspire us! Your writing is amazing! 

Looking forward with great anticipation to 2023.