Limit: 3 haiku – while the theme for this competition is “pumpkins”, no explicit mention of pumpkins needs to be made in the haiku entered.
Closing date: July 31.
Entry fee: free.
Email entries to Djurda Rozic at dvrozic@gmail.com – entrants must include the word “pumpkins” in the subject line.
Poets from the region of the former Yugoslavia are welcome to submit their haiku in their language; their work will be translated into English and judged in the international section.
With results to be published in Iris haiku journal, this competition is organised by the tourist board of the town of Ivanić Grad in Croatia and the Three Rivers Haiku Association.
Author: Rodney Williams
Basho Festival Haiku Contest
Limit for number of entries: 10 haiku.
Entry by email: eigo@basho-bp.jp
Closing: July 31.
Fee: entry is free.
Winning haiku will be published in book form – with results to be announced on October 12, so as to mark the anniversary of Basho’s death – but copyright will remain with the competition’s sponsors.
Judge: Koko Kato.
Full guidelines can be accessed through this link:
http://www.basho-bp.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Matsuo-Basho-Poetry-Offerings27.pdf
World Haiku Competition
Entries close: July 20.
Guidelines: haiku must be previously unpublished, and not submitted or entered elsewhere.
You must type the “World” in the subject-line of your submission email.
Enter by email only: lpezinesubmissions@gmail.com
Winning haiku (including honourable mentions) will be posted on the Lyrical Passion website.
Entry fee: $US3 per haiku or $US10 for 5 haiku, with other options (see the website for full details about making payment).
Grand prize – $200 (USD) & certificate; 2nd prize – $70; 3rd prize – $30.
Full entry details can be accessed through this link:
http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/2016-world-haiku-contest-open.php
Simon Hanson wins Shiki Monthly Kukai – April 2016
Congratulations to Australian haiku poet Simon Hanson for gaining First Place in the Shiki Monthly Kukai for April 2016, with the following one-liner:
both sides of the border autumn moon
- Simon Hanson
Polling twenty-eight points – two more than the second-place winner – Simon was a clear winner in the Kigo section (where the set theme was migration), in a competition which attracted entries from over a hundred poets, across a range of countries and continents.
One voter’s comment about Simon’s winning haiku read as follows: “Definitely topical in 2016, but also universal in its implications. And certainly about migration, all the more powerfully for its stillness. A very strong haiku.”
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International Haiku Poetry Day Ginko – Hobart
The following report comes from Lyn Reeves, on behalf of Ron C. Moss and the Watersmeet haiku group in Tasmania: this piece – accompanied by photographs – can also be accessed through this link:
https://fortyspot.com/2016/04/26/watersmeet-ginko/
To mark International Haiku Poetry Day in Hobart, Ron Moss and I held a ginko in the Royal Botanical Gardens. We chose to meet at the site of the Japanese Gardens, where the haiku group Watersmeet had its beginnings. This was an opportunity, not only to celebrate the day, but also to bring together poets who may be interested in continuing to share haiku activities.
Fourteen people turned out to take part, some of them old hands at haiku, some relative beginners and some entirely new to the form but with a keen desire to learn more about it. We were honoured to also have the company of Lee Bentley, co-coordinator of the Bindii Japanese Poetry Genre Group, who was visiting from South Australia.
After a brief introduction where Ron and I read some mood-setting haiku and thoughts about haiku, Ron led the way along paths that wound through autumn-coloured foliage, across wooden paths and bridges spanning shimmering ponds.
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Further success for Marietta McGregor
Along with four of her poems being recently chosen among the best haiku in “The Mainichi” in Japan for 2015, Australian haiku poet Marietta McGregor has also gained two top-ten placings in the Fourth Annual Haiku Contest run by an American literary magazine called “The Lincoln Underground” – this competition requires that entries comply with a 5-7-5 format:
racing the ebb tide
children dash to write their names
in water color
– Second place
tumbled steambed rocks
playing deep arpeggios…
rivers in spring thaw
– Tenth place
Details can be viewed at this website:
Success for Marietta McGregor
Congratulations to Australian haiku poet Marietta McGregor for her recent success in having four poems chosen among the best haiku included in “The Mainichi” in Japan during 2015:
lighthouse
the black around us
sliced
– July 1
a flash of white wings
in the corner of my eye
gone in one blink
– August 13
our measure
of summer days
inchworm
– September 10
aircraft landing
a sparrow hops
aside
– December 16
Full details can be accessed through the following link:
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160419/p2a/00m/0na/023000d
Results – Wild Plum Haiku Contest 2016
Congratulations to Australian haiku poet Jan Dobb for gaining second place in the 2016 Wild Plum Haiku Contest:
drifts of leaves
we listen to the colours
of grandma’s tales
– Jan Dobb
Another Australian haiku poet – Jayashree Maniyil – gained the First Honourable Mention in the same competition:
crackle of twigs
everywhere the smoke
gathering the sky
– Jayashree Maniyil
Full results – with comments from the judge an’ya – can be viewed through this link:
Australian Haiku Society 