Category: Competitions and Opportunities

Call for Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 16

Echidna Tracks Australian Haiku Issue 16

Simon Hanson and Jennifer Sutherland will be the haiku editors for Echidna Tracks Australian Haiku Issue 16.

We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.

Australia, in the twenty-first century, is a vibrant multicultural society. We hope to celebrate, through the haiku/senryu collected on this website, the diversity of lifestyles, values, characters, customs, cultures, and historical experiences of the people inhabiting Australia, as well as the diversity of our landscapes, flora, and fauna. Please explore our categories for inspiration. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Summer or Autumn timeframe.

This is primarily a website for the collection of the best work of Australian haiku poets. We also accept haiku from those who have visited Australia and wish to share their experiences.

Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 16 Summer/Autumn 2026

‘My Haiku Pond’ 10th Anniversary Contest open for submissions until 30th September

My Haiku Pond is excited to announce its 10th Anniversary Haikai MHP Contest (2025), judged by Sherry & Zoe Grant with Michael Smeer. Each poet is invited to submit up to 3 haiku or senryu during 15th – 30th of September, 2025. The Event & contest is open to members and non-members. https://tinyurl.com/MHP10HaikaiContest

Catchment – Poetry of Place : fifth edition, submissions open

The Spring-time submission period for Catchment – Poetry of Place will remain open between 21st September and 21st November, towards release of the journal’s 5th issue online on 21st December, 2025.

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Applications Now Open for Three AHS Mentorships

The Australian Haiku Society (AHS) is excited to be offering three mentorships as a trial programme from September this year. This is a new initiative of the AHS and the trial will help us to develop an even more substantial mentorship programme in the future.

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Haiku Poetry Workshop Opportunity, Central Coast, NSW, 23/08/2025

Vanessa Proctor will be facilitating a Haiku Poetry Workshop for Wyong Writers Group this coming Saturday, 23rd August.

  • Time: 1:15 for 1:30pm start  
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Venue: Woodbury Park off Woodbury Park Drive, Mardi, NSW 2259
  • Cost Members $10.00  Visitors  $12.00 prepaid before 18/08/2025
  • Includes afternoon tea/coffee
  • Please bring writing paper and pen
  • For more details and to confirm attendance (limited spaces) email glenndc@ozemail.com.au

For more information about the club visit www.wyongwriters.org

Applications closing soon for Sydney Introduction to Ginko workshop

There are still some places available for the Introduction to Ginko for Writing Haiku, being held in Sydney on 6th August. This workshop is designed for novice haiku poets. It includes some pre-work to help prepare for the ginko and ensuing discussion. Participation is free, but you must apply by 5pm AEST Monday 28th July, using the application form in the original post.