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.
Continue reading “Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday September 28, 2025”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We invite your best previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.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.
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We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.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.
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.
To mark the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox in 2025, we will be offering 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, haiku craft and techniques you employ, and how you go about editing your compositions. You will be invited to share your thoughts on aspects important to your haiku compositional process.
Please keep your Musing succinct, to no more than 250 words.
During the event you will also be invited to respond to other poets’ musings with succinct comments.
This Haiku Musing event will open on Saturday 20th September 2025, Australian time, and close on Sunday 28th September.
Why not start thinking now about what you might like to share with fellow poets? If you’d like to read some more substantial invited musings from our archives, please visit the dedicated category Haiku Musings. We look forward to contributions from haiku poets worldwide.
On behalf of the Australian Haiku Society, I would like to thank you for your entries from Australia and other countries.
Many of the entries described the image. As Ron Moss (well-known poet and haiga judge) has stated …
“Ideally, a ‘link and shift’ will occur between the written word and the image: the two separate elements brought together to make something that resonates on a level higher than when they were separate. It’s a challenge to bring two disciplines together to make all the elements sing and best portray the haiku moment, but I strive to capture that ideal.”
The awarded images achieved this with exceptional skill and a profound understanding of haiga.
Continue reading “Results of the AHS 2025 Winter Solstice Haiga Kukai”
Julia Wakefield, Subha Goonaratne, Radhika DeSilva, Udara Thambapanni, Stella Damarjati, and Lynette Arden met on Saturday, July 12 at 3.30pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maeve Archibald, Ewan Rourke and Maureen Sexton. The attendees all brought some haiku on the two themes of winter and water, as arranged previously.
Continue reading “Report on the Bindii Zoom meeting July 2025”Haiku Northwest’s 22nd annual Porad Award opens for haiku submissions on July 14.
The contest is named for Francine Porad, founder of Haiku Northwest, former president of the Haiku Society of America, and editor of Brussels Sprout. The annual award is open to all, members and non-member alike.
Continue reading “Haiku Northwest’s 22nd annual Porad Award”
