Deadline: May 1st, 2024
Entry Fee: US$5 for 1-3 haibun
For full contest details and all submission guidelines for the San Francisco International Haibun Contest for 2024 , scroll to the bottom of the HPNC Contest Guidelines page.
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It has been an honour to serve as president of the Australian Haiku Society over the past 4 years.
Subashini Jayatilake, a Sydney-based Sri Lankan-Australian poet, will launch her bilingual chapbook through the horizon on Saturday 4th May, 2024, at Blacktown’s Max Webber Library, 2-5pm. If you’d like to attend, please use this link to RSVP.
A new six-member executive committee came into effect on 1st April.
Office Bearers:
President: Leanne Mumford
Vice-President: Rob Scott
Secretary: Alison Rogers
Web Manager: Lynette Arden
Committee Members:
Maureen Sexton
Wanda Amos
See the Committee Page for profiles.
In celebration of International Haiku Day, the FRINGE MYRTLES HAIKU GROUP will be the featured readers at CHAMBER POETS, a monthly spoken word event organised by Myron Lysenko since 2013. It takes place on the second Saturday of each month between 1pm- 4pm at the Woodend RSL (32 Anslow Street Woodend). The date for this haiku celebration/reading is 13th April. There will also be an OPEN SECTION and resident band BLACK FOREST SMOKE will perform haiku set to music. All welcome. Entry by donation $10/$5.
The next Gadigal Ginko in Sydney – number 5 – has been organised to mark International Haiku Poetry Day on 17th April. It will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday 16th April, from 2pm, in The Domain, Sydney. Contemporary haiku poets of all levels of experience are invited to join the gathering. To register and receive details of the exact meeting point, please visit the Gadigal Ginko web page.
Leanne Mumford
Convenor, Gadigal Ginko
There was much chuckling, guffawing and general merriment at the first Fringe Myrtles meeting for 2024. The meeting was held on Sunday 17 March at our new home, the beautiful Atheneum Library, Melbourne’s only membership library, which celebrates its 185th birthday this year.
Steve Wigg, Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati, Lynette Arden, Jake Dennis and Ewan Rourke joined the Google Meet meeting, and apologies were received from Subha Goonaratne, Maureen Sexton and Kirsten Johnston. Most people sent their haiku in advance, which made it easier for us to critique them.
We workshopped our haiku and then arranged to have our next meeting on Sunday April 14 at 3pm, before the AHS meeting that takes place on International Haiku Poetry Day on April 17.
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Australian Haiku Society 