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.
Entries have now closed.
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!
Discover more from Australian Haiku Society
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
emptied nights
patches of light through-
warrior’s mind
Marjan Sabouri – Iran
bedridden
precious memories
casting shadows
a frozen bath
like between friends
icicles’s jazz
Mircea Moldovan
standing in line
“Waiting for Godot”
Margaret Mahony
Australia
standing in line
“Waiting for Godot”
Margaret Mahony
Australia
days grow short
necks grow long
warms the blues
Dan McGowan
war veteran
appartion of lost mates
in the misty bar
— Milan Rajkumar
recurring nightmare
the details that darkness
can hold
Kat Lehmann
(thank you!)
all shapes and sizes
of women—beauty
contained
—
Fiona H Evans, Australia
Quiet misty day
Bottles like tombstones watching
See and hear it all
Karen Bradley
UK