‘Stay Cool’ Writing Workshops Opportunity

Make a New Year’s resolution to develop your creative writing

 Red Earth Ecology, based in the NSW Riverina, is offering a series of haiku-related workshops in early 2026. Full details are available on the Stay Cool website – read on for workshop dates and leader information.

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Illawong Haiku Group Summer Meeting 2025

AHS sincerely apologises for the late posting of this report, which was provided prior to Christmas 2025. 

Our final meeting for the year was held on Tuesday, 2nd December, at Carol Reynolds’s home in Bangor. As is often the case in the weeks leading up to Christmas, it is difficult to juggle the many and various events that arise. Ros Pitt, Margaret Mahony, Carol Reynolds and Alison Miller attended, but unfortunately Patricia Meredith, Kathleen Ann and Rita Potente were unable to join us.

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White Pebbles Summer Meeting

13th December 2025

On the last meeting for the year, the White Pebbles Haiku Group gathered as usual at the Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Garden on a vibrant summer morning. In its eighth year, Beverley George (founder and convener) was joined by all the group’s members: Colleen Keating, Gwen Bitti, Kent Robinson, Maire Glacken, Marilyn Humbert, Michael Thorley, Pip Griffin and Samantha Sirimanne Hyde.

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Summer Solstice 2025 Selections

The summer solstice – when the sun reaches the highest point in the sky creating the longest day and shortest night of the year – has been important to many cultures throughout human history. With the observance of seasons a significant aspect of haiku practice, the Australian Haiku Society chooses to mark the solstices and equinoxes each year. This year for the Southern hemisphere summer solstice we are sharing a few favourite poems submitted to Haiku Strings in previous summers. You can find PDF booklets of most of the Haiku Strings we have held to date on our Resources page .

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Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday November 30, 2025

Julia Wakefield, Lynette Arden, Ewan Rourke and Maeve Archibald met on Sunday, September 28, at 4 pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton, Subha Goonaratne, Stella Damarjati and Radhika de Silva. The attendees brought some haiku for review, and Subha sent her haiku in spite of her absence.

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Members’ News – December 2025

  1. President’s Message – Reflecting on Haiku Musings
  2. Publications
    1. Dr Grant Caldwell has contributed a 20-page chapter on haiku for the De Gruyter Handbook of Poetic Forms.
    2. Soft, a book of haiku by Robyn Cairns, launched in Footscray.
  3. New group forming in Brisbane
  4. Latest Haiku String books
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Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday September 28, 2025

Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday September 28, 2025

Julia Wakefield, Subha Goonaratne, Stella Damarjati, Maeve Archibald, Ewan Rourke and Lynette Arden met on Sunday September 28 at 4.30pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton. The attendees all brought some haiku for review, some of which were on the theme of spring, as suggested previously.

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