Writers Rising Up's Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest, titled "Winter in Variations," is an annual call with a deliberately narrow aperture: six poems, each no longer than twenty lines, each attending to an everyday occurrence in winter. The constraint is not incidental. It asks the poet to work small and to work repeatedly, building a sequence rather than submitting a single polished gesture. The contest takes its name from Bill Holm, the Minnesota poet and essayist whose attention to the ordinary textures of winter—light, labor, silence, the habits of small towns—remains a useful model for what this call appears to seek. The institutional scope is modest and transparent. One winner is selected, awarded $25, and published on the organization's winning writers page. The writer retains all rights. Writers Rising Up reserves the right to declare no winner, a clause that should be read plainly: the jury is not obligated to fill the slot. Submissions may include art and photographs, provided the writing and any included artwork are original and by the submitting artist or photographer. The fee is $5. The curatorial vision is one of restraint and specificity. "Witness" is the operative word. The call does not ask for winter as metaphor, nor for seasonal lyricism in the abstract. It asks for observation—the everyday occurrence, the thing seen—rendered within twenty lines. Poets working in a documentary or observational mode, or those whose short poems carry the weight of a single noticed moment, are the natural constituency here.