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Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 12: Open Theme are now open

For Echidna Tracks, Issue 12, we invite your best and previously unpublished haiku and senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.

The submission period for Echidna Tracks Issue 12: Open Theme will be open during the month of September 2023. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form and during the time the link is open.

Anybody can submit work that is relevant to Australia – but as this is a website for the collection of Australian haiku, the work we are looking for will come from an authentic experience of either living in or visiting Australia. Unfortunately, we cannot consider your submission when we cannot verify an Australian connection.

Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks Issue 12: Open Theme

Entries open for the UHTS 2023 Samurai Haibun Contest

During September you are invited to submit your haibun to The United Haiku and Tanka Society (UHTS) 2023 Samurai Haibun Contest. This is a yearly contest celebrating the Autumn Festival traditional procession of Samurai at the Nikko Toshogu shrine every 17th October. Deadline: submissions open from 1 September to 30 September 2023 only.

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Eucalypt: a tanka journal: e-News August 2023

The August 2023 Eucalypt: a tanka journal e-Newsletter is now online, featuring the SHOE TANKA by contributing poets.
Please click on the link below to open the PDF file.
https://jthorndyke.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/eucalypt-enews-august-2023-.pdf

Submission window for issue 35: 1st to 30th September 2023.

Julie Thorndyke
Editor, Eucalypt : a tanka journal
editor.eucalypt@gmail.com

Spring Gadigal Ginko in Sydney

Convenor Leanne Mumford invites Sydney haiku poets of all levels of experience to participate in the next Gadigal Ginko from 10am on Wednesday 27th September in Camperdown. Visit Leanne’s Gadigal Ginko webpage for further details, including the registration form. If you’d like to join in, please register by 10am Monday 25th September to receive details of the exact meeting point and alternative arrangements in case of unsuitable weather.

Cloudcatchers’ Winter Ginko (No. 70)

on Thursday 10 August 2023

As this was the seventieth ginko of the Cloudcatchers, we met at the location where John Bird gathered a few poets together to form the group in December 2005. Since then we have assembled once a season at various locations in our vicinity, except for those Covid months, when virtual ginko were undertaken in our own homes or surroundings, on the same day, at the same time, followed by a Round Robin discussion of each others’ haiku written during the one hour silence.  

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