Over coming months, the Australian Haiku Society will host online haiku readings by interested poets, from one state or territory at a time. The formal reading segment will be followed by an opportunity for informal discussion with the aim of fostering connections between poets. While poets from a particular state or territory will be reading, there will be no geographic restriction for the audience. Registrations will be required to obtain the Zoom link, however.
Continue reading “Calling all Queensland Haiku Poets”ILLAWONG HAIKU GROUP INVITATION
Illawong Haiku Group would like to extend an invitation to other haiku writers located in Sydney to join them at Hurstville Museum and Gallery on Tuesday, 24th March from 10.30 am to 12.00 midday.
Continue reading “ILLAWONG HAIKU GROUP INVITATION”Eucalypt: a tanka journal – February 2026
The February 2026 Eucalypt: a tanka journal e-Newsletter is now online.
The Distinctive Scribble Awards from issue 39 are announced, with appraisals. Two exciting calls for submission are included, as well as book notes about new publications for your poetry library.
Cloudcatchers Summer Ginko No. 80
DATE: Thursday 22.01.2026
PLACE: Torakina Park, Brunswick Heads NSW
PRESENT: Norma Watts, Richard Watts, Robyn Braithwaite, Quendryth Young, Vivien Royston, Angela Smith.
Summertime, and the Cloudcatchers’ Group celebrated its eightieth gathering of haiku poets at the spot where it all began. It was in the December summer of 2005 that John Bird assembled a group of writers who had indicated a yearning to learn more about haiku. The site was Torakina Park, a picnic spot at the mouth of the Brunswick River, at Brunswick Heads, on the north coast of New South Wales. So this is where we gathered once more to celebrate our eightieth ginko, twenty summers later.
Continue reading “Cloudcatchers Summer Ginko No. 80”Paperbark Haiku Summer 2025 Ginko
AHS sincerely apologises for the delay in posting this report.
The Paperbark Haiku Group’s Summer gathering for 2025 was held on the morning of Wednesday December 10th. Twelve haiku enthusiasts gathered at the Little Rokeby Café in Subiaco to experience the nearby memorial gardens, and to set down lines of haiku in response to the environs.
Continue reading “Paperbark Haiku Summer 2025 Ginko”‘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.
Continue reading “‘Stay Cool’ Writing Workshops Opportunity”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.
Continue reading “Illawong Haiku Group Summer Meeting 2025”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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