Category: Competitions and Opportunities

World Haiku Competition

Entries close: July 20.
Guidelines: haiku must be previously unpublished, and not submitted or entered elsewhere.
You must type the “World” in the subject-line of your submission email.
Enter by email only: lpezinesubmissions@gmail.com
Winning haiku (including honourable mentions) will be posted on the Lyrical Passion website.
Entry fee: $US3 per haiku or $US10 for 5 haiku, with other options (see the website for full details about making payment).
Grand prize – $200 (USD) & certificate; 2nd prize – $70; 3rd prize – $30.
Full entry details can be accessed through this link:

http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/2016-world-haiku-contest-open.php

Entries welcome – 8th Yamadera Bashō Haiku Contest

Entries are invited for the 8th Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum Haiku Contest.
The entry period will commence on April 1 – entries will close on Saturday, 4 June 2016.
Poets may submit either one or two haiku, previously unpublished.
In making an entry to Division Four, non-Japanese entrants are not required to provide a translation.
No entry fee is payable.
Entries can be submitted by email to this address:
bashoenglish-haiku@amail.plala.or.jp
Submissions can also be sent by post to this address instead:
Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum
4223 Nanin Yamadera, Yamagata-shi, Yamagata-ken, 999-3301 JAPAN
Entries may even be faxed to this number: (0)23-695-2552
In each division, one grand prize and two distinguished work prizes will be awarded.

Prize winners will be notified by post or email.
Recipients will receive a certificate printed in English and Japanese, as well as an additional prize.
Prize-winning haiku poems and the haiku submission collection will be displayed on the Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum website.
Haiku submissions and applicant names may be printed in the Haiku Submission Collection, displayed on the museum website, and otherwise made public.

Noboru Oba
Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum

Changes at Paper Wasp

The Autumn 2016 edition of ‘paper wasp: a journal of haiku’, featuring more than 40 poets, is now available for $8 within Australia and $US9 overseas (posting & handling included).

‘paper wasp’ will cease publication as a quarterly print journal in June.

‘paper wasp’ will re-emerge in a new form online and produce occasional haiku anthologies in hard copy.

The last Winter issue is intended as a collector’s edition.

In keeping with the beginnings of ‘paper wasp’ more than 20 years ago, it will publish haiku only.

Submissions are restricted to a maximum of six haiku.

The deadline is 1 May.

The Winter edition will be sent free of charge to existing subscribers.

It will be available for $A10 within Australia and $US10 overseas, postage and handling included.

Enquiries/submissions: jacquimurray@bigpond.com

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A Hundred Gourds 5.2 released

The 18th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry, is now available for your reading pleasure.

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

Please note:

1. AHG will cease publication with our next issue, AHG 5.3, in June 2016.

AHG 5.3, our 19th issue, will be published in June. It will be our final issue, so be sure to send all submissions by the deadline of March 15th. Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.

2. There will be no renku section in AHG 5.3

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‘Otata’ – an e-zine of haiku and other short poems

Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku

Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains

— Santoka, as translated by Burton Watson

As Watson notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”

An e-zine of haiku and other short poems, ‘Otata’ appears on the last day of the month.

The ‘Otata’ e-zine can be accessed through this link:

https://otatablog.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/otata/

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‘Notes from the Gean’, Resurrected – Message from Lorin Ford

I’m very happy to be able to announce that the nine complete issues 1.1 through to 3.1 of the quarterly journal, ‘Notes from the Gean’, for which I was haiku editor, have been recovered and are now archived on Don Baird’s website, ‘The Living Anthology’.

You’ll find them in TLA’s ‘Library Shelf’ under the heading ‘Journals’:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/library-shelf.html

The work published in the first issue, ‘Notes from the Gean’1.1, June 2009, includes haiku by these Australians:

Lynette Arden, John Bird, Neil Bramson, Dawn Bruce, Nathalie Buckland, Ashley Capes, Beverley George, Gina, Matt Hetherington, Michelle Leber, Jo McInerney, Mark Miller, Graham Nunn, Rhonda Poholke, Jack Prewitt, Harry Rout, Barbara A. Taylor, Rodney Williams and Quendryth Young.

More can be found in the further issues of ‘Notes from the Gean’ archived on ‘The Living Anthology’ website.

– Lorin Ford, haiku editor & etc., ‘A Hundred Gourds’

Submissions open to the Living Haiku Anthology

Australian haiku poets are strongly encouraged to submit work towards the Living Haiku Anthology.

This is being compiled by Don Baird, Richard Gilbert and Hansha Teki.

It could become the largest international online repository of haiku.

The editors are seeking to include haiku from poets worldwide.

Representation is open to any poet who has a group of previously published haiku.

Full submission details can be found at this website:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/