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A new weekly winner, plus your 2013 Limericks champion
By Peter St. Onge | Associate Editorial Page editor | March 27, 2013

Two-time defending champ Wes Long of Cramerton has been noticeably absent from the winner’s circle in this year’s Observer’s Politics and Public Policy Limericks Contest. No more.

A repeat winner, with a nod to the pope and a First Couple
By Taylor Batten | Editorial Page Editor | March 20, 2013

Charlotte’s Bill McGloughlin is on a roll. The Week 1 winner of the Observer’s Politics and Public Policy Limericks Contest ekes out another victory in Week 3, with our judges giving him a slight nod over two-time defending champ Wes Long.

The secret to Rand Paul’s holding it? Our limericists know
By Taylor Batten | Editorial Page Editor | March 13, 2013

Knives on planes, a filibustering Sen. Rand Paul and the Charlotte-Raleigh airport fight got our limerick writers stirred up this week.

From Mars to the Vatican to Rowan, limerick writers dive in
By Taylor Batten | Editorial Page Editor | March 6, 2013

If you want to win the Observer’s 18th annual limericks contest, I have bad news; if you want to be entertained, I have great news: Father-and-son duo John and Wes Long are as clever as ever, as is Bill McGloughlin. Your work is cut out for you, as is mine.

Limericks on steroids: Your chance to knock off a champ
By Taylor Batten | Editorial Page Editor | February 27, 2013

It’s somehow appropriate that the Observer’s first annual Politics & Public Policy Limerick Contest was in 1992 and the second annual one was in 1997. The participants see the world with different eyes from most of us, so it’s fitting that the contest itself got off to a quirky start as well.

You, too, can write limericks. But first, read this.

To write a good limerick, the first rule is to understand the specific rhyme scheme and the specific meter.
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