Knoxville Twestival haiku winners!

Thanks to everyone who entered the Knoxville Twestival haiku contest. We had a lot of fun reading them. Now, without further adieu ... the winners.

Back2Pennyrile for the Cas Walker shoutout (by the way, excellent use of many Knoxville icons in your haikuing)
Cas Walker, they said,
would bring us miracle salve!
Duck! It's a chicken!

Radioactiveegan for the Twestival-specific haiku
beer at twestival?
boogying with animals?
you can count me in.

Jim Clark for his Vols football haiku
Wear orange sweatshirts.
Ice beers, light grills, shout, "GO VOLS!"
Prepare for heartbreak.

AND

Discordia gets the Twitter tickets as he both haikued AND tweeted about us (and even attempted to Twitter a haiku, though it didn't work out.)

If you're one of these four people, please e-mail your real name and e-mail address and/or phone number ASAP to themoderngal(at)gmail(dot)com so I can pass it along to the event organizers and they can hook you up. Have fun at the Twestival! I am going to try to make it Thursday, but work may get in the way.

Get your Knoxville Twestival tickets here

Brace yourselves Wigshoppians. We're gonna have a giveaway! But first, a word about the sponsor of this giveaway.

The Knoxville Twestival is taking place Sept. 10 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Knoxville Zoo. What's a Twestival? Glad you asked.

The very first Twestival was organized and promoted through Twitter (hence the Tw- bit) about a year ago. In the past year it's grown into a series of local festivals held around the world during a three-day period. Tickets are sold and the funds raised benefit a local charity, which in Knoxville's case is the local branch of the Salvation Army.

A $25 ticket purchased here will get you access to the zoo that night as well as food and beverages (I do not know if they are of the adult nature), music from acts like Todd Steed (he's my fave!) and Randall Brown, giveaways and a silent auction. Plus you get to meet up with your fellow social media aficionados.

Now the bit about the giveaway. The Wigshop has four pairs of free tickets to giveaway to the Knoxville Twestival! Woo hoo! But we're not just going to hand them out.

We want to see your best haiku about Knoxville, funny or serious. Bonus points for mentions of key Knoxville landmarks and your favorite bloggers (ahem). We're giving you until Friday, Sept. 4, to make an entry after which the Wigshoppers will confer and select the three most creative entries to win. You may haiku more than once, but you only have a chance to win one pair of tickets (unless you're the only one to enter, in which, congratulations!)

Wait, didn't you just say you had four pairs of tix to give away, MG?

You're so observant. Since this is a Twitter+Festival, the last pair of tickets will be given away to someone who tweets (positively or funnily) about @wigsphere on Twitter in the next week. Make sure you're tweeting @wigsphere so we see your tweets. Include the hashtag #knoxtwestival so we know you're trying to enter.

Now go forth and haiku and tweet! Check back here after Friday to find out if you've won.