Lynette Arden

International Haiku Poetry Day 17 April 2026– Haiku String

Today, 17th April 2026, we are celebrating International Haiku Poetry Day by holding a String on the theme of ‘Connections’. Connecting and sharing seem especially important these days, when peace often feels like a distant dream. By sharing our haiku, we can connect with each other, even in these days of international disruption, warfare and all the consequent turmoil that extends far beyond the zones of conflict. May harmony and peace reign internationally, and hatreds be displaced by cooperation and love.

Connections is a broad theme. Connection can take many forms and be between or to different kinds of entities. Connections might be between people or other living things, to nature or spirit, to place, history or culture. The Australian Haiku Society invites you to share your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Connections. We invite you to explore varied connections in your own life and the wider world we all inhabit, without necessarily using the word ‘connections’.

We welcome contributions from haiku poets worldwide. The String will remain open for a week, starting in the early hours of 17th April 2026 and finishing in the early hours of 24th April 2026 AEST. Please post your work in good time so you are included.

The haiku should be linked by the subject of Connections. It is not necessary for each haiku to relate to the one before it.

Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 17 Winter/Spring 2026

Echidna Tracks will now become an international publication, and we welcome submissions from haiku poets worldwide.

We hope to publish a diversity of haiku and senryu. Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert will be the haiku editors for this issue. We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic.

Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 17 Winter/Spring 2026

Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday February 8, 2026

Julia Wakefield, Maureen Sexton, Ewan Rourke and Maeve Archibald met on Sunday September 28 at 4 pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Lynette Arden, Stella Damarjati and Radhika de Silva. The attendees brought some haiku for review and Radhika sent her haiku in spite of her absence.

Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday November 30, 2025

Julia Wakefield, Lynette Arden, Ewan Rourke and Maeve Archibald met on Sunday, September 28, at 4 pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton, Subha Goonaratne, Stella Damarjati and Radhika de Silva. The attendees brought some haiku for review, and Subha sent her haiku in spite of her absence.

Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday September 28, 2025

Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday September 28, 2025

Julia Wakefield, Subha Goonaratne, Stella Damarjati, Maeve Archibald, Ewan Rourke and Lynette Arden met on Sunday September 28 at 4.30pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton. The attendees all brought some haiku for review, some of which were on the theme of spring, as suggested previously.

Reminder for Submissions to Echidna Tracks

Submissions close at the end of October for Echidna Tracks.

We invite your best previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. We hope to publish a vibrant collection of haiku and senryu.

Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 16 Summer/Autumn 2026

Call for Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 16

Echidna Tracks Australian Haiku Issue 16

Simon Hanson and Jennifer Sutherland will be the haiku editors for Echidna Tracks Australian Haiku Issue 16.

We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.

Australia, in the twenty-first century, is a vibrant multicultural society. We hope to celebrate, through the haiku/senryu collected on this website, the diversity of lifestyles, values, characters, customs, cultures, and historical experiences of the people inhabiting Australia, as well as the diversity of our landscapes, flora, and fauna. Please explore our categories for inspiration. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Summer or Autumn timeframe.

This is primarily a website for the collection of the best work of Australian haiku poets. We also accept haiku from those who have visited Australia and wish to share their experiences.

Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 16 Summer/Autumn 2026

Spring Equinox 2025 – Haiku Musings Event

To mark the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox in 2025, we offer a new interactive opportunity – a chance to contribute a Haiku Musing and to respond to other poets’ musings. The prompt question for you to muse on is:

What do you find most helpful when writing haiku?

Writing a haiku can involve many considerations, such as where you find inspiration, the kinds of experiences you like to write about, your aims and approach, the haiku craft and techniques you employ, and how you go about editing your compositions. You are invited to share your thoughts on aspects important to your haiku compositional process.

Please keep your Musing to no more than 250 words.

You may also respond to other poets’ musings with succinct comments.

This Haiku Musing event opens on Saturday, 20th September 2025, Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), and closes on Sunday, 28th September.

We look forward to contributions from haiku poets worldwide.

Please enter your musing in the comments section below, and reply to a poet’s musing by using the ‘reply’ option below the comment.