Welcome to the first issue of Members’ News for 2026. We wish all readers a creatively satisfying year of haiku and related forms.
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Calling all Queensland Haiku Poets
Over coming months, the Australian Haiku Society will host online haiku readings by interested poets, from one state or territory at a time. The formal reading segment will be followed by an opportunity for informal discussion with the aim of fostering connections between poets. While poets from a particular state or territory will be reading, there will be no geographic restriction for the audience. Registrations will be required to obtain the Zoom link, however.
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3 March 2026
Due to an unfavourable weather forecast, Ros Pitt, Pat Meredith, Rita Potente, Kathleen Ann, Alison Miller and Margaret Mahony met at Margaret’s home in Sutherland, with apologies from Carol Reynolds, who was unwell.
Continue reading “Illawong Haiku Group Summer Meeting”Rare Opportunity
Have ever you benefitted from the support and encouragement of other haiku poets, perhaps when you were new to haiku? Would you like to pay some of that kindness forward while connecting with many other poets and helping to shape the future of the Australian Haiku Society offers? What is this rare opportunity?
Continue reading “Rare Opportunity”Thank you, Alison
The Australian Haiku Society Executive Committee would like to thank Alison Rogers for her hard work as Secretary from April 2024 until recently. Unfortunately, for personal reasons she had to relinquish this role before the end of her term. No doubt many haiku group leaders and others in the Australian and broader haiku communities are similarly grateful for her volunteer service and would join us in wishing Alison all the best for the future.
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.
Continue reading “Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday February 8, 2026”ILLAWONG HAIKU GROUP INVITATION
Illawong Haiku Group would like to extend an invitation to other haiku writers located in Sydney to join them at Hurstville Museum and Gallery on Tuesday, 24th March from 10.30 am to 12.00 midday.
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The February 2026 Eucalypt: a tanka journal e-Newsletter is now online.
The Distinctive Scribble Awards from issue 39 are announced, with appraisals. Two exciting calls for submission are included, as well as book notes about new publications for your poetry library.
