Limerick Contest

Once there was a boy who wrote books

He would do whatever it took

To please all his fans

Except guys named Dan

To give them an excellent look!

Our last limerick contest was a few years ago and we’ve decided to run another!

This time, the top five winners will each receive their choice of a brand new dust jacket for the hardcover edition of The Black Prism or a signed trade paperback of The Broken Eye.

Guidelines:

The last word in lines 1, 2, and 5 must rhyme and contain 8-9 syllables each.

The last word in lines 3 and 4 must rhyme and contain 5-6 syllables each.

All submissions must be sent to elisa@brentweeks.com by Monday, October 12 at 5pm Pacific Standard Time.

The subject line of your email should read “Limerick Contest”.

The BEST limericks have some kind of turn in the last line. (Not like Brent’s above.)

It must be about an event, character, or object in either the Night Angel Trilogy or The Lightbringer Series.

Famous limericks:

1. There once was a man from Nantucket

Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

But his daughter, named Nan,

Ran away with a man,

And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

3. There was an Old Man of Peru

Who watched his wife making a stew.

But once, by mistake,

In a stove she did bake

That unfortunate Man of Peru.

– Edward Lear

4. There was a young lady of Niger

who smiled as she rode on a tiger;

They returned from the ride

with the lady inside,

and the smile on the face of the tiger.

— Edward Lear

5. A wonderful bird is the pelican,

His bill can hold more than his beli-can.

He can take in his beak

Food enough for a week

But I’m damned if I see how the heli-can.

– Dixon Lanier Merritt