Echidna Tracks will now become an international publication, and we welcome submissions from haiku poets worldwide.
We hope to publish a diversity of haiku and senryu. Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert will be the haiku editors for this issue. We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic.
The submission window for the Haiku Society of America Rengay Award competition will be from April 1, 2026, to May 31, 2026. The contest is open to the public. First Prize is $200; Second Prize, $150; Third Prize, $100. The winning rengay will be published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. All rights revert to authors on publication. Rengay is a shorter, more accessible version of renku and an easy and fun opportunity for two or three poets to collaborate. Find more information at
https://www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-contests.htm#rengay
Submitted by Sarah Paris, HSA 2nd Vice President
What does it mean to die? To accompany another being as their life ends? Or to face your own death? Poets across the ages have responded with grief, rage, wonder, acceptance, and beauty. We want to read what death and dying mean to you.
confluence invites you to submit one haiku, tanka, or other Japanese short-form poem on the theme of death and dying. The best poems will share in $500 in prize money and be published in confluence. Submissions are open now through May 1, 2026. There is no fee to submit.
Learn more and submit your poem at www.confluencehaiku.com/prize
Submitted by Rowan Beckett Minor, Associate Editor, confluence
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.
Continue reading “Calling all Queensland Haiku Poets”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.
Continue reading “ILLAWONG HAIKU GROUP INVITATION”Red Earth Ecology, based in the NSW Riverina, is offering a series of haiku-related workshops in early 2026. Full details are available on the Stay Cool website – read on for workshop dates and leader information.
Continue reading “‘Stay Cool’ Writing Workshops Opportunity”Catchment- Poetry of Place will remain open for contributions until 21st November, towards release of the journal’s 5th issue on 21st December 2025.
Continue reading “Catchment – Poetry of Place 5; submissions open until 21st November”Submissions close at the end of October for Echidna Tracks.
We invite your best previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. We hope to publish a vibrant collection of haiku and senryu.
Australian Haiku Society 