THEME: HEA

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
April 25, 1993	8	I AM SPURIOUS (YELLOW)	Write a headline for the Weekly World News (Maximum length, 10 words)	HEA	Text file | Contest image
October 2, 1994	81	HEADS, YOU LOSE	Take any two or more headlines anywhere in today's Washington Post, and combine them to make a funnier headline.	HEA WAS	Text file | Contest image
January 8, 1995	95	HOW'S THAT AGAIN?	Take any headline appearing anywhere in The Post this week and completely rewrite the first lines of the story to put a different, unintended spin on it.	HEA	Text file | Contest image
June 18, 1995	118	WEAK 118	Take any photo caption or headline appearing anywhere in today's Post and alter its meaning by adding, deleting, or changing one letter.	CAP HEA WAS	Text file | Contest image
February 11, 1996	152	WE ARE CURIOUS (YELLOW)	Take any headline in today's Washington Post and rewrite it in tabloid fashion so the story seems a lot more scandalous and/or lurid than it is.	HEA WAS CUL	Text file | Contest image
August 25, 1996	180	WHEN IN DOUBT, PUN	Take any headline in today's Post and improve it by somehow turning it into a pun.	HEA WAS	Text file | Contest image
October 26, 1997	241	CAN YOU BEAT THIS?	Come up with headlines describing the defeat of one pro team by another.	HEA	Text file | Contest image
November 26, 2000	377 (XLIV)	Week MMDCXLIV	Provide a headline (and, if necessary, the first line of the text) for any article that will appear in The Washington Post on this day in the year 2050.	HEA HIS	Text file | Contest image
March 4, 2001	391 (LVIII)	Spinning Out of Control	Take a headline in today's Washington Post and create a subhead that spins the story in an opposite or unexpected direction.	HEA	Text file | Contest image
April 14, 2002	449 (CXVI)	Cut and Pastiche	Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in today's Post. You cannot subdivide words.	HEA	Text file | Contest image
December 8, 2002	483 (CL)	Obitter Fate	Give us an obit headline for some famous person, currently living or dead.	HEA EPI	Text file | Contest image
December 21, 2003	537	The New York Post	Liven up any article appearing in The Washington Post or its Web site over the next eight days by giving it an irresponsibly sensationalistic headline.	WAS HEA	Text file
November 7, 2004	583	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, from the Washington Post or its Web site from today through next Sunday, and reinterpret it by writing either a "bank headline"--or subtitle--or the first sentence of an article that changes the original meaning entirely.	HEA	Text file
October 30, 2005	634	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from today through next Sunday, and change its meaning by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it.	HEA	Text file
January 29, 2006	647	Paste Imperfect	Change a headline or sentence that appears in the Post or on washingtonpost.com through Feb. 6 either by deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it or by adding 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad.	HEA LET	Text file
July 30, 2006	673	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on Washingtonpost.com from July 30 through Aug. 7 and reinterpret it by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it.	HEA	Text file
June 17, 2007	718	Put Our Heads Together	Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in a single day's Washington Post (or on washingtonpost.com)	HEA	Text file
March 15, 2008	756	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from March 15 through 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	HEA	Text file
December 6, 2008	794	Ripped Off From the Headlines	Send us some Onion-type headlines.	HEA	Text file
February 14, 2009	804	Our Type o' Joke	Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com between Feb. 14 and 23, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead) or a brief first sentence of an article that would run under it.	HEA	Text file
August 15, 2009	830	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Aug. 14 through Aug. 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 11, 2010	885	Mess with our heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 10 through Sept. 20 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head."	HEA	Text file
April 24, 2011	916	Bank shots	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from April 22 through May 2 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	HEA	Text file
October 9, 2011	940	Our type o' headline	Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, or change spacing or punctuation, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Oct. 7 through Oct. 17, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead).	HEA LET	Text file
March 4, 2012	961	The end of our rhops	Write a funny passage or headline whose words all have the same number of letters.	LET HEA WOR	Text file | Contest image
September 9, 2012	987	Bank shots	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 6 through Sept. 17 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	HEA	Text file
April 14, 2013	1017	Vowel play	Write a "univocalic" newspaper headline -- one that uses only one vowel throughout.	LET HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 17, 2013	1047	Bank shots	Quote a headline appearing in The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com or another publication, print or online, dated Nov. 14 to Nov. 25, and supply a humorous "bank" headline that either misinterprets it or comments wryly on it.	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 25, 2014	1073	Bank shots: Mess with (y)our heads	Quote a headline appearing in the Washington Post, washington.com or another publication, print or headline, dated May 22 to June 1, and supply a "bank" headline that either misinterprets it, as in the examples above, or comments wryly on it.	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 8, 2015	1114	Awww together now	Write us a humorous headline -- from the past, present, or future -- that puts an optimistic perspective on some otherwise not-so-promising news. (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 15, 2015	1115	Our type o' headline	Change a headline in an article or ad in the Washington Post and then add a "bank head" or subtitle. (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 20, 2015	1141	Mess with our heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in the Post (print or online) Sept. 17-28 by writing a bankhead, or subtitle. (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 14, 2016	1162	An 8-year Re-Onion	Write a fictional Onion-type headline. (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 4, 2016	1191	Mess with our heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in The Post (print or online) and dated Sept. 1-12 by writing a bank head, or subtitle (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 12, 2017	1218	Mess with our -- or anyone else's -- heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in the Post (print or online or another publication dated March 9-20) by writing a bankhead, or subtitle. (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Ellen Ryan	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
April 16, 2017	1223	Post again out to mislead public!	Write a humorously sensationalistic, misleading headline on an otherwise mundane article or ad published in The Post or elsewhere from April 13 to April 24. (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 23, 2017	1237	Our alliteracy campaign	Rewrite an existing headline from any  publication, print or online — about something in the  news from July 20 to 31, by using alliteration.	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 4, 2018	1269	Mess with our (or other) heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in The Post (print or online) or another publication and dated March 1-12 by writing a bank head. (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Elden Carnahan	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 16, 2018	1297	A different type o' headline contest	Change a letter in an article or ad in the Post or another publication dated Sept. 13-24 by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting a letter; transposing two letters; or changing spacing or punctuation; and then add a "bank head." (Conversational text)	HEA LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
April 14, 2019	1327	Mess with our (or anyone's) heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline (or a big part of a headline) by writing a bank head, or subtitle.	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 12, 2019	1331	Paste Imperfect	Choose a headline or sentence from The Post or another publication, print or online, dated May 9-20, 2019. Then change that headline or other text by:      A. Deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it (put brackets around the deleted text);      B. Adding up to 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad (write the additions in capital letters);      or C. Both A and B, as long as the added text goes at the end of your headline or sentence.	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 15, 2020	1375	Mess With Our Heads	Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle. (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Michelle Christophorou	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 14, 2021	1423	Muddled heads: Headline anagrams	Choose a headline (or part of a headline) in any print or online publication dated Feb. 11-22 and rearrange all its letters into an anagram. (Conversational text)	ANA HEA LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 7, 2021	1426	Mess with our (or others') heads	Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle. (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 1, 2021	1447	Give it to us straight	Take any sentence from an article or ad in any publication (print or online) dated July 29 through Aug. 9, 2021, and intepret it in “plain English". (Conversational text)	HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
YEAR 31 BEGINS