Welcome to the Australian Haiku Society 2025 Autumn Equinox Kukai. This is a new participation-based event open to haiku poets. It will open on the Autumn Equinox, 20th March 2025, and results will be announced to coincide with International Haiku Poetry Day on 17th April 2025. The window for entries has now closed. Thanks to all participants. Check below for what happens next!
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Catchment – Poetry of Place : fourth edition
Submissions welcome for Catchment 4.
Thanks to all AHS members who have offered contributions to the first three issues of Catchment – Poetry of Place.
The next submission period will span between 21 st March and 21st May 2025, with the fourth edition due to go live online on 21st June, via the Baw Baw Arts Alliance website
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Eucalypt: a tanka journal eNews February 2025 is now online, including the distinctive Scribble Award winners from issue 37.
Read Eucalypt eNews February 2025 online
Catchment – Poetry of Place : third edition
Now available online, December 2024
Readers are welcome to enjoy the third edition of Catchment – Poetry of Place, available now on the Baw Baw Arts Alliance website via Latest Edition.
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SUBMISSIONS FOR CATCHMENT closing on 21st November
A reminder: Australian poets are welcome to contribute tanka and/ or longer poems to Catchment – Poetry of Place – the submission period closes on 21st November. Focussing on a sense of locality, tanka poets may offer up to five (5) stand-alone poems, or a four-piece string/ sequence, using the submission portal found online here.
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Submissions for the United Haiku and Tanka Society’s 3rd edition of Songbirds Online anthology are open from 1st November through to 1st December 2024 (midnight) GMT.
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The Australian Haiku Society is proud to announce the 3rd running of the John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku. This award is a biannual international haiku competition open to poets from all over the world.
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Grand Final day—
the clear blue sky
is part of the scent
Welcome to the annual celebration of Australian footy and haiku!
Calling all haiku poets from every nook and cranny on the planet to participate in the Annual AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai for 2024. This has become a much loved event, now running for over a decade! The one day of the year when haiku poets, expert and novice, footy fan or critic, turn their Zen minds to the rip-roaring, white-knuckle ride of a footy match to produce a live haiku call of the AFL Grand Final.
Australian Haiku Society 