A note to poets entering this competition. Please include your name below your haiku. An email address will not be counted as a name. If you make a mistake when entering, please enter your work again, including a note.
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Welcome, haiku poets worldwide, to the Australian Haiku Society Winter Solstice Haiga Competition 2026. The competition starts today, 21 June, in Australia. It will be open for eight days, including today, to allow haiku poets in Australia and abroad to contribute their haiku. The competition will close at 1 am on 29 June ACST (Australian Central Standard Time). To avoid missing out, please ensure you have entered your haiku in good time, as the competition cannot be reopened once it closes automatically. Please read the guidelines carefully.
You are invited to write one haiku in response to the image by Wanda Amos.
Your name should appear on your entry as you want to see it on the website.
Enter one haiku only. Haiku entered should not have been published previously in print or online, including in discussion forums. If you make a mistake in your haiku, please post it again, including a note to disregard your first entry.
To enter, post your haiku in the comment box, together with your name. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the comment box.
The winning haiku will be displayed on the AHS website.
By entering the competition, entrants agree to make their haiku available for display on the AHS website, although the copyright will remain with the author.
No correspondence will be entered into regarding winning entries.
Good luck and enjoy!
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My first submission was unsuccessful for some reason that I don’t know. I’m trying again.
winter solstice night –
counting empty wine bottles
amid friends laughters
Maria Tosti, Italy
estate sale—
a child’s height marks
behind the wardrobe
Nalini Shetty
waiting for the dawn
the chill of your absence
still sucks at my bones
after her death
medicine bottles lined up
on the bed stand
—Rehn Kovacic
My previous submission got messed up in formatting for some reason and I couldn’t edit it afterwards. Here is a resubmission of the same haiku:
sparkling
with the solstice dawn . . .
a shattered beer bottle
Nicholas Klacsanzky
sparklingwith the solstice dawn . . .a shattered beer bottleNicholas Klacsanzky
funfair –
all the darts miss
their target
Francoise Maurice
Identity-parade
still, raven black silhouettes
bottle with top hat
Tony Gapper, Ireland
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one green bottle the heat fizzing bubbles away
Alan Summers (UK)
still life
the paints in Poppa’s garage studio
all dried up
Louise Hopewell