Contests

Summer Contest Winner: Noelani McGadden, Bedford, NH

Summer Contest Winning Submission:

I love to garden. I’m not the best, but I love it: I feel like I’m creating something and the activity brings back childhood memories of when my father used share this hobby with me. Every year I grow sunflowers in a square to create a “fairy house” for my daughters with a little opening for a door. It is a shady reprieve during the hot summer months and they spend hours there pretending to be fairies and whispering magic spells to each other.

This summer the old apple tree finally fell down and my husband took a chainsaw and “created” a table and 4 chairs from the stump and large branches. We placed them in the sunflower house and my daughters put on their favorite princess dresses and fairy wings. We made fairy sandwiches (fluff), picked fresh blackberries, and held a tea party (apple juice for kids – blackberry tea for mom) under the gentle swaying of the large sunflower heads on our table and chairs made of apple wood. It doesn’t get any better than this.

June/July/August Contest Theme: Cooling Off with Tea and My Family/Friends

Seasonal Category: Written submission

Deadline: August 31, 2007

Prize: A free 4oz. tin of the tea you used in your story

Contest: Share a unique experience of how tea was a part of an enjoyable moment this summer with your friends or family. This could be while on vacation or at a special party or event. It must be written in one-two paragraphs, and not more than six lines each. Your submission will be published in our September, 2007 newsletter. The October and November 2007 newsletters will have a link to your story on our web site. All submissions should be emailed to info@TheCozyTeaCart.com before August 31, 2007. Or send a hard copy to The Cozy Tea Cart, 40 Mountain Rd., Brookline, NH 03033. Your submission will be judged according to our Seasonal Contest Rules. Now’s the time to take a break, pour yourself a glass of iced cold tea and start the creative writing juices going!

Entry Form:

You’ve probably had a lot of cups of tea over writing this, and you think you’ve written your best story yet. Now is the time to submit it! Here’s what we’ll need:

First and Last Name
Complete Mailing Address (street, city, state, zip)
E-mail Address
Story Title
Two Written Paragraphs
Photo (if any)

Rules:

Winners must be 18 years of age or older.
Only one entry per person for each contest (all additional entries will be removed from consideration).
The contest is open to residents of the USA and Canada only.
The Cozy Tea Cart's tea must be used in all entries.
We will draw ONE winner per contest. Winners are chosen at random from all properly completed entries. Decision of the judges is final.
Entry forms MUST be filled in completely in order to be considered for the contest, and in order to receive your prize.
No substitutions of the prizes are offered. The winner agrees to accept responsibility of their tea prize.

Disclaimer

Material submitted for these contests will be reviewed following normal review protocol. All items presented will be reviewed without author identification by the members of the judging panel. The monthly selection will be based on the uniqueness of the idea, the quality of the writing or artwork, and suitability to the theme. All materials must be submitted by the last date of the seasonal contest month.

The winner will be notified at the end of the contest to tell you how to claim your prize. The winner must sign a waiver allowing The Cozy Tea Cart to publish their writing piece, recipe, or post a picture of their artwork on our web site, and be announced in our monthly newsletter. Full credit will be given to the owner.