Leanne Mumford

Paperbark Winter Ginko, Boorloo Perth

25 August 2023

It was a perfect day for a winter ginko in Boorloo Perth: sunny and cloudless, a balmy 24 degrees. How lucky we are to have such glorious winter days! Some of us gathered at the ferry terminal on Elizabeth Quay at ten o’clock to catch the ferry across the Derbal Yirrigan Swan River to South Perth, where others were waiting. We totalled seven, which made us very pleased, as we have been promoting ginko. Our usual event advertising via Facebook has now been augmented with an email list for those who don’t use this social media platform.

International Katherine Mansfield 100 Contest closing 15th September

The deadline for entries in the international haiku contest being held to celebrate the Centenary of New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is midnight of 15 September 2023, NZ time. The contest is divided into two sections, one for adults aged 21 years and over, and the other for junior poets aged 20 years and younger. There is no submission fee. Prize winners will be invited to read their haiku at the International Katherine Mansfield 100 Festival, to be held online 17-19 November 2023. The judges are Alan Peat (UK) for Adult Division and Zoe Grant (NZ) for Junior Division. For detailed submission guidelines, please visit the contest webpage.

Entries open for the UHTS 2023 Samurai Haibun Contest

During September you are invited to submit your haibun to The United Haiku and Tanka Society (UHTS) 2023 Samurai Haibun Contest. This is a yearly contest celebrating the Autumn Festival traditional procession of Samurai at the Nikko Toshogu shrine every 17th October. Deadline: submissions open from 1 September to 30 September 2023 only.

Eucalypt: a tanka journal: e-News August 2023

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

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.

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.

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!