Welcome, haiku poets worldwide, to the Australian Haiku Society Spring Equinox Haiga Kukai 2024 Non-Seasonal. The competition starts today, 22 September, in Australia. It will be open for eight days, including today, to allow haiku poets in Australia and abroad to contribute their haiku.
Continue reading “AHS Spring Equinox Haiga Kukai 2024: Non-Seasonal”Tuesday 3rd September
The Illawong Haiku Group took advantage of an opportunity to experience something a little different for our Spring meeting. Hurstville Museum and Gallery (HM&G; part of Georges River Council) invited writing groups to use the current travelling exhibition 1 x 4 as inspiration. Museum space, writing supplies and morning tea were provided.
Continue reading “Illawong Haiku Group – Spring meeting”Submissions welcome – open 21st September to 21st November, 2024.
Thanks to all AHS members who have offered contributions to the first two issues of Catchment – Poetry of Place: such interest and support is greatly appreciated!
Australian poets are again encouraged to submit work which explores a sense of location, either in tanka or in longer Western forms, or both.
Continue reading “Catchment – Poetry of Place: third edition”12 September, 2024
Warm greetings once again as four of us met up, settled in and ordered lunch—Kathy Kituai, Hazel Hall, Glenys Ferguson and Jan Dobb. We thought of our other two haiku buddies who are away on travels—Greg Piko and Marietta McGregor.
Continue reading “Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra”The Australian Haiku Society will hold a Haiga Kukai on 22nd September to mark the Spring Equinox, which occurs this year in Australia. Poets from Australia and internationally are invited to participate.
Melbourne artist, Olivia Ark, has generously provided two images (Seasonal and Non-seasonal), which will be displayed on the AHS website starting on 22nd September. The competition will be open for eight days, to allow haiku poets in Australia and abroad to contribute their haiku.
Please enter your haiku well before the opportunity finishes to avoid missing out.
For each competition, poets will be invited to submit one previously unpublished haiku inspired by the image. Someone will then select the winning haiku, which will be displayed on the AHS website.
Continue reading “Prior Announcement: AHS Spring Haiga Kukai 2024”This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne-based poet, Earl Livings.
Continue reading “Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon (Australian Haiku Anthology)”
A reminder that submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025 will close at the end of September 2024.
The editors look forward to receiving your best haiku to include in the journal.
Simon Hanson and Marilyn Humbert will be the haiku editors for this issue. We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Summer/Autumn time frame.
Continue reading “Call for Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 14”Julia Wakefield, Maeve Archibald, Steve Wigg, Stella Damarjati, Kirsten Johnston, and Lynette Arden met on Saturday, July 27, at 3pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton, Ewan Rourke and Subha Goonaratne. Maureen and Ewan sent their haiku for critique, but we sent them individual feedback afterwards.
Continue reading “Report on the Bindii Meeting August 31 2024”
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