Deadline: May 1st, 2024
Entry Fee: US$5 for 1-3 haibun
For full contest details and all submission guidelines for the San Francisco International Haibun Contest for 2024 , scroll to the bottom of the HPNC Contest Guidelines page.
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Subashini Jayatilake, a Sydney-based Sri Lankan-Australian poet, will launch her bilingual chapbook through the horizon on Saturday 4th May, 2024, at Blacktown’s Max Webber Library, 2-5pm. If you’d like to attend, please use this link to RSVP.
A new six-member executive committee came into effect on 1st April.
Office Bearers:
President: Leanne Mumford
Vice-President: Rob Scott
Secretary: Alison Rogers
Web Manager: Lynette Arden
Committee Members:
Maureen Sexton
Wanda Amos
See the Committee Page for profiles.
In celebration of International Haiku Day, the FRINGE MYRTLES HAIKU GROUP will be the featured readers at CHAMBER POETS, a monthly spoken word event organised by Myron Lysenko since 2013. It takes place on the second Saturday of each month between 1pm- 4pm at the Woodend RSL (32 Anslow Street Woodend). The date for this haiku celebration/reading is 13th April. There will also be an OPEN SECTION and resident band BLACK FOREST SMOKE will perform haiku set to music. All welcome. Entry by donation $10/$5.
The next Gadigal Ginko in Sydney – number 5 – has been organised to mark International Haiku Poetry Day on 17th April. It will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday 16th April, from 2pm, in The Domain, Sydney. Contemporary haiku poets of all levels of experience are invited to join the gathering. To register and receive details of the exact meeting point, please visit the Gadigal Ginko web page.
Leanne Mumford
Convenor, Gadigal Ginko
The submission period for the second edition of Catchment – Poetry of Place will span from 21 March till 21 May 2024.
Poets resident in Australia are again most welcome to submit work showing a sense of location, either in tanka or longer forms, or both.
We are delighted to invite you to begin the week of celebrations for International Haiku Day by coming to the Sydney launch of under the same moon on Sunday 14th April at 2.30pm. The launch will take place in the Gallery, a heritage room with views across Sydney Harbour. Refreshments will be provided.
Please RVSP using this linked form.
Thanks to everyone who contacted AHS to let us know the good news about various poets in our community. Please keep sending in news items for sharing.
In this issue:
* competition wins and other awards and recognition
* International Haiku Poetry Day
* Haiku Down Under 2024 update
Australian Haiku Society 