Rosehips Kween Contest
Talent, jokes, recipes, and royal mediocrity. This is your chance for glory!
RoseHips Kween
The Rosehips Kween Contest is a satirical pageant where anyone can step into the spotlight and compete for the crown.
How to Enter
Criteria: Entrants must be human and at least 21 years old, or we can’t let you into the dance. Anyone can be a Kween. Even you!
Fill out the Rosehips Kween Contest Form online.
Attend the Rosehips Ball, Saturday, October 3, at the American Legion Hall. Doors open at 7:30 pm, dancing at 8:00 pm. Costumes highly encouraged.
The contest begins at 9:30 pm.
During the Pageant You Must
Tell One Joke
Make the crowd laugh. Keep it short and keep it kinetic.
Share a “Recipe”
Whether it’s your grandma’s secret cookie recipe or your recipe for eternal glory, tell us your finest concoction. Taste is optional; spirit is mandatory.
Demonstrate a Talent
Show a skill, a stunt, or sheer lunacy. Reflect the Kinetic Spirit.
How a Kween Is Crowned
Be prepared! Reflect the Kinetic Spirit and keep it short! Bribes are essential. Lunacy is helpful. Remember, mediocrity rules. The judges choose three finalists, then THE CROWD’S volume of cheering will decide the winner.
Your Royal Reign
Show up for the race on Sunday and act regal at all times. Please also be available for various parades, functions, and festivities such as the Port Townsend Rhody Parade (in May), the Uptown Street Fair (in August), and next year’s Rosehip Ball (in October), plus any other event you feel inspired to appear at.
YES, your “reign” extends until the next Rosehip Ball. Your Kweenly benefits include a crown, a throne, and a new reputation. Your costume and attitude will become the new outrage! Hundreds of weird people will bow to you with the Kinetic Chicken salute. There will be an “un-chickenly” number of photo-ops in strange places, so comb your hair and afix your crown.
THIS IS YOUR CHANCE FOR GLORY!
Rosehips Kweens in Hysterical Order
2025 – Anne Marie
2024 – Anne Marie
2023 – Sillly Goose! – Mary Tully
2022 Kween Pheanamix – Anami Cloud
2019, 2020, 2021 Kween Pearlificient – Rachel Cervantes
2018 Kween Rudiculious – Carmen Bitzer
2017 Kween Quaser – Mallory Langer
2016 Kween Funster – Lisa Doray
2015 Anami Kwee Honey Bee
2014 Xoe Goddess of the Night
2013 Kween Veronica Park-in-the-way
2012 Kween Winter Solstice – Seleena Espinosa
2011 Kween Peashooter – Cleare Shields
2010 Kween Bozette – Amber Bartle
2009 Glitter Bug – Suzanne
2008 Bubblicious – Rikki Bedford
2007 Sparkle – Kris Nelson
2006 Norma Jean – Willow Wood
2005 – Kelly Bell
2004 Hoola Loola – Suzy Ohlson
2003 – Summer
2002 Ivy and Green Goddess – Seleena Espinosa
2001 Kweenie Jeanie – Jeanne Moore
2000 Isabella Du Chevalier – Valerie Bleu
1999 Velveeta – Brook Anderson
1998 Muffy Lewdinsky – Phil Speser
1997 Arty Miss – Katy Morse
1996 2 Lou la Touch’e me – Marlys Violette
1995 Priscilla Kween of Denial – Vanessa McGrady
1994 Purple Goddess of Love – Janet Emery
1993 Kween Mother – Joan from Salt Springs Island, Canada
1992 – Heidi
1991 Dia Fram – Cathy Burrows
1990 Manressa Mama – Lynn Hersey
1989 Ms. Energy – Wendy Stemshein
1988 True Blue – Trudie
1987 – PT Mary
1986 Walter Ego III – Ruth McCreery
1985 Spike – Colleen Freemen
1984 – Lynn Morrow
1983 Gunhilda – Tora Hutchinson