The August 2023 Eucalypt: a tanka journal e-Newsletter is now online, featuring the SHOE TANKA by contributing poets.
Please click on the link below to open the PDF file.
https://jthorndyke.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/eucalypt-enews-august-2023-.pdf
Submission window for issue 35: 1st to 30th September 2023.
Julie Thorndyke
Editor, Eucalypt : a tanka journal
editor.eucalypt@gmail.com
Author: Leanne Mumford
President, Australian Haiku Society
Spring Gadigal Ginko in Sydney
Convenor Leanne Mumford invites Sydney haiku poets of all levels of experience to participate in the next Gadigal Ginko from 10am on Wednesday 27th September in Camperdown. Visit Leanne’s Gadigal Ginko webpage for further details, including the registration form. If you’d like to join in, please register by 10am Monday 25th September to receive details of the exact meeting point and alternative arrangements in case of unsuitable weather.
Cloudcatchers’ Winter Ginko (No. 70)
on Thursday 10 August 2023
As this was the seventieth ginko of the Cloudcatchers, we met at the location where John Bird gathered a few poets together to form the group in December 2005. Since then we have assembled once a season at various locations in our vicinity, except for those Covid months, when virtual ginko were undertaken in our own homes or surroundings, on the same day, at the same time, followed by a Round Robin discussion of each others’ haiku written during the one hour silence.
Continue reading “Cloudcatchers’ Winter Ginko (No. 70)”One year to Haiku Down Under 2024
We are excited to announce that the second Haiku Down Under conference will take place online via Zoom from Friday to Sunday August 16-18, 2024. Our theme for 2024 is A Sensory Journey.
Continue reading “One year to Haiku Down Under 2024”Haiku @ The Oaks
Thursday 10 August 2023
This time, we were a full house. After a mid-winter break during July, we re-assembled at The Oaks for lunch, doubly pleased to greet teach other once more—all of us, Glenys Ferguson, Hazel Hall, Kathy Kituai, Marietta McGregor, Gregory Piko, and Jan Dobb. As usual, it was not long before our personal catch-up was morphing into animated haiku talk. How good to be together again!
Continue reading “Haiku @ The Oaks”New tanka print journal
the art of tanka
Pamela A. Babusci is starting a new print tanka journal called the art of tanka, beginning in the fall of 2023. Submissions are open from September 1st to November 1st. If you are interested in submitting and/or subscribing, please email Pamela at: moongate44@gmail.com for details.
News for Members
August 2023
Recent awards for Australian Haiku Poets
There have been a few international competition results come out recently in which Australians have fared well. Lyn Reeves was one of the winners of this year’s Haiku Calendar Competition, and Mark Miller, together with Lyn, was among the runners-up. Mark Miller took out second prize in the 26th Mainichi Haiku Contest, in which Rob Scott also received an honorable mention. Well done Lyn, Mark and Rob!
Australian haiku poets also did well in the recently announced Haiku section results of the New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition. Gavin Austin and Owen Bullock each received ‘Highly commended’, while five poets were ‘Commended’ for their entries: Jan Dobb, Simon Hanson, Ron Moss, Lyn Reeves, Cynthia Rowe. Congratulations to all these fine poets!
Enchanted Garden Haiku
Editor Steliana Voicu has just released the third issue of this new online journal. Submissions for issue four are open from 1st to 15th September, while issue five submissions will be open in November. See the Submissions calendar page for more details, including the theme for upcoming issues.
You can now subscribe by email to Enchanted Garden Haiku via a Subscribe feature in the left side panel of the Enchanted Garden website.
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