2025 Official NaPoWriMo Registration Thread
Team Napo'25 Welcomes you to DUP's Official Glo/NaPoWriMo 2025, those who finish this challenge will receive honorable mentions on Facebook and Instagram along with a TROPHEEE! custom designed by Webmiss!
FOUNDERS: Ahavati & JohnnyBlaze
HOSTS: Team NaPo'25
TEAM NAPO'25: Ahavati, DaisyGrace, cabcool, SummerRain75, wallyroo92, LunaGreyhawk, wafflenose, Fiftysevenhours, Mel44, Webmiss, JohnnyBlaze (Director emeritus) Eerie (in memoriam, Director emeritus)
As most are aware, we typically have a promo video and yearly theme; however, this year we felt that such amusement wouldn't be appropriate due to the recent death of a NaPo Team member and former Director, Eerie. This challenge is dedicated to her, and you'll see posts highlighting such throughout the challenge.
This challenge will begin in the "Competition Forum" on April 1st. In order to participate, you must register FIRSTLY by reading the Rules & Guidelines and SECONDLY by posting the following here in this thread:
Having read the NaPo 2025 Rules & Guidelines, I'm in!
My location is ________ located in Time Zone ________.
Location must be your City & State ( or City & Country if not the U.S. ) Substitute a nearby City if you don't want to reveal your true location.
Ask for clarification if you don't understand a rule BEFORE committing to the challenge. You have until Midnight of March 30th in your time zone to commit.
THE RULES!
An accumulation of 3 Strikes will result in your Disqualification. You will receive 1 Strike for failing to correct certain Rule Violations in an entry within 24 hours of its posting. We will not warn you to correct anything. You are monitoring yourself. Pay attention to our Daily updates to know If you have any Strikes or were Disqualified.
Our advice? Partner up with others who can check your entries for Guideline violations and immediately notify you of such. If you follow these rules, you won't earn a single Strike.
Only one poem per day can only be posted from 12:01 AM and 11:59 PM in your time zone starting April 1st --- before or after will earn you 1 Strike. You will create 30 posts numbered #1 through #30 regardless of when and if any late postings occur.
Your entries must have its number on top corresponding to the date of its posting, then a title in bold text, and lastly the body of your poem. Example:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/474411/gotopost/
After 24 hours of posting, if there is:
No number ( or the incorrect number ) = 1 Strike
No title in bold text ( or no title ) = 1 Strike
Number, title, & poem out of order = 1 Strike
Notes other than the "unique word count" ( which is optional ) or the copyright symbol ® posted after the poem = 1 Strike
Theoretically, you could earn more than 3 Strikes from one poorly executed Entry and be Disqualified.
Entries cannot be edited after 24 hours of posting. Forum Time Stamps tell us if and when you have edited. An edit occurring after 24 hours can result in a Disqualification.
• Entries Must Be Pasted Into The Forum Direct Linking is prohibited.
• Poetry, Not Prose Entries must be in the format of lines and stanzas, not sentences and paragraphs. How "poetic" your entry is IS A NON-ISSUE.
• No Erotica Allowed Simply do not attempt to post erotica and you will be safe! Do not use language prompting the reader to imagine a sexual encounter. Do not make references or allusions to human body parts with intent to sexually arouse the reader.
• Entries Must Be In English
• No Images or Videos can accompany your entries.
Double Posting When Late We encourage you to complete poems ahead of schedule in the event you are prevented from writing and posting by an unexpected event such as a personal crisis, power or Internet failure, etc.
Follow this protocol upon your return: post a maximum of 2 poems per date until you are caught up. At the very bottom of each late post, attach a brief explanation stating why you are posting late whatever reason it may be. Example:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/9560/840/#392950
• Strike if your late post(s) do not include an excuse.
50 Unique Word Rule
The body of each poem must contain a minimum of 50 "unique" words. You can repeat any word as many times as you wish, but it only counts as 1 unique word. You are allowed to make up your own words. Titles and quotes of other writers are not included in your unique word count. If you provide the number of unique words in your entry, please type it AFTER the poem is finished.
What counts as 1 unique word: Contractions | Ampersands | One letter words such as "a" or "I" | Numbers such as "4" | Hyphenated words such as "sugar-free" | Power words such as "Freedom"
If you don't have a minimum of 50 unique words after 24 hours of posting, this will result in 1 Strike.
Errors & Inconsistencies ( Typos, Grammar, Punctuation, etc ): This is not a competition to see who can write a technically accurate poem. You may submit more polished versions of your entries to your personal DUP portfolios or other comps at any time.
Multiple Accounts: If you are actively posting at DUP with multiple accounts not publicly disclosed in ALL of your profiles + forum signatures per site guidelines, you will be notified AFTER the competition that you were Disqualified. We do not reward individuals who secretly use additional memberships at DUP to exploit others.
Using Previously Written Ideas For Poems: You may convert any written idea into a poem for entry if you wrote it down digitally or old school in a notebook and did not perform any further work on it. In essence, you may use any poem you "started" and it is only during April 1st - 30th that you may "finish" said poems.
Off Topic & Drama Posts will be removed from the Registration / Discussion thread. Only poem entries are to be posted to the NaPo challenge thread and NaPo Prompt Comp thread.
Acceptable Entries & Writing Prompts We provide prompts available in the NaPo Stomp the Prompt Sister Comp competition likewise beginning on April 1st.
Otherwise, you do have complete freedom to write about anything you want! You will not be disqualified based on content or quality - with the exceptions of Erotica, which is not allowed, Plagiarism, and attacking any DU member; if we discover that you are swapping words in pre-existing poems or copying partial to entire poems, you will be notified AFTER the competition that you were Disqualified.
PLEASE use common sense. Your poetry, unpolished or otherwise, is a reflection of the overall talent being fostered by DUP. We would hate to see outside readers, potential members, or even publishers turned away by material meant to garner attention purely from shock value. Don't be a shock jock.
Final Award Check After the FINAL entry is submitted on April 30th: Team NaPo will double check entries to ensure viability. It only takes 1 ineligible entry to negate your acquisition of the trophy, so be certain your work adheres to the Rules!
A special THANK YOU! to all braving this challenge! Particularly to our Team members for donating their valuable time to assist us in making this the most SPECTACULAR NaPo ever!
Good writing to all!
Team NaPo'25
Last Year's Participants
These will be the number of years previous participants will complete if they finish this year. Specially designed trophies for the 5th & 10th year participants. Looks like Honoria will be the only 5-Year recipient this year!
Nine Years:
Ahavati
Viddax
Eight Years:
DaisyGrace
Josh
Cloven_Tongue34
TheTravelingFairy
Seven Years
PoetsRevenge
Summerrain75
Wallyroo92
Satinugal
GahdessWorship
Six Years
BrokenTitanium
Tallen
Fiftysevenhours
Cabcool
LunaGreyHawk
Aspergerpoet56
Five Years
Honoria
Four Years
Wafflenose
Cipher_O
LjDynamic
Willowswhimsies
Mel44
TheBlackBird ( formerly the_positively_dark )
Three Years
DCLXVI_1989
Razzerleaf
Two Year
Kinkwizard_95
dimpy
Josiah
Isgyppie
NightBirdBlue
As you can see - the rules may appear overwhelming on the initial read, but they're really not, as evidenced by the above participants. Team NaPo'25 is ready to assist you so don't hesitate to reach out to any DU Member donning the tribute avatar to Eerie.
These will be the number of years previous participants will complete if they finish this year. Specially designed trophies for the 5th & 10th year participants. Looks like Honoria will be the only 5-Year recipient this year!
Nine Years:
Ahavati
Viddax
Eight Years:
DaisyGrace
Josh
Cloven_Tongue34
TheTravelingFairy
Seven Years
PoetsRevenge
Summerrain75
Wallyroo92
Satinugal
GahdessWorship
Six Years
BrokenTitanium
Tallen
Fiftysevenhours
Cabcool
LunaGreyHawk
Aspergerpoet56
Five Years
Honoria
Four Years
Wafflenose
Cipher_O
LjDynamic
Willowswhimsies
Mel44
TheBlackBird ( formerly the_positively_dark )
Three Years
DCLXVI_1989
Razzerleaf
Two Year
Kinkwizard_95
dimpy
Josiah
Isgyppie
NightBirdBlue
As you can see - the rules may appear overwhelming on the initial read, but they're really not, as evidenced by the above participants. Team NaPo'25 is ready to assist you so don't hesitate to reach out to any DU Member donning the tribute avatar to Eerie.
Ahavati said:Having read the NaPo 2025 Rules & Guidelines, I'm in!
My location is North Carolina located in Time Zone Eastern Standard Time ( soon to switch to Daylight Savings time).
LunaGreyhawk said:Having read the NaPo 2025 Rules & Guidelines, I'm in! My location is North Carolina located in Time Zone Eastern Standard Time.
WillowsWhimsies said:Having read the NaPo 2025 Rules & Guidelines, I'm in! My location is Nebraska located in Time Zone Central Standard Time.
Honoria said:Having read the NaPo 2025 Rules & Guidelines, I'm in!
My location is New York located in Time Zone Eastern Standard Time ( soon to switch to Daylight Savings time).
