The AHS Haiku String on ‘Place’ for the Winter Solstice 2017 will appear on this website at 14.24 on 21 June (Australian Eastern Standard Time) and contributions will be allowed for the following 48 hours.
Contributions are welcomed from haiku poets in Australia and internationally.
Further details here
Entries for the 22nd International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto are open until September 11th 2017. Applicants may submit 2 previously unpublished haiku by mail or via the online submission page. For further details please visit the website. Awarded haiku from previous years may also be read here.
The Australian Haiku Society will be holding a Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice, which occurs in Sydney NSW on Wednesday, 21 June 2017 at 2:24 pm AEST. We will keep the string open for contributions until Friday, 23 June at 2.24 pm AEST to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part. Continue reading “Prior Notification of AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String on ‘Place’.”
Nathan Sidney and Garry Eaton both have interesting and highly recommended commentaries on a haiku by Michelle Tennison on this week’s re:Virals 88 hosted by The Haiku Foundation. As this week’s winner Garry Eaton selected one of Lorin Ford’s haiku for reflection and comment in next week’s upcoming re:Virals.
fish story
the cormorant spreads its wings
wider
Lorin Ford (Stylus Poetry Journal, April 2006)
Poets are invited to enter this year’s Setouchi Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest with an original photo-haiku on the theme of the sea. Applications are free and open until November 30th 2017. Further contest information and a link to the online entry form can be found here.
A new US based journal, Nourish-poetry & haiku is seeking submissions of previously unpublished work for publication. The current submission window is open until June 30, 2017. For further details follow the link.
https://nourish.submittable.com/submit/78820/haiku
Thanks to Gavin Austin for alerting us to this opportunity.
Entries are invited for the 9th Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum Haiku Contest. The entry period will commence from April 3rd and close on June 3rd, 2017. Poets may submit either one or two haiku, previously unpublished. Click here for submission details.
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Message from Sandra Simpson:
Haiku NewZ, and its parent the New Zealand Poetry Society, have moved to a new website which has a fresh look.
Find Haiku Happenings here: https://poetrysociety.org.nz/affiliates/haiku-nz/haiku-happenings/
To access and navigate the rest of the pages, hover your mouse over Affiliates in the top menu. A drop-down tab will appear that says Haiku New Zealand. Point your mouse at this tab and a drop-down menu with all the page names appears to the right.
Continue reading “New website for Haiku NewZ & NZPS”
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