Category: Competitions and Opportunities

The 2024 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai

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.

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Catchment – Poetry of Place: third edition

Submissions welcome – open 21st September to 21st November, 2024.

Thanks to all AHS members who have offered contributions to the first two issues of Catchment – Poetry of Place: such interest and support is greatly appreciated!

Australian poets are again encouraged to submit work which explores a sense of location, either in tanka or in longer Western forms, or both.

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Submissions are Open for Echidna Tracks Issue 14

Submissions are open for Echidna Tracks Issue 14

Simon Hanson and Marilyn Humbert will be the haiku editors for this issue. We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Summer/Autumn time frame.

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Ginko Haiku Walk – Sydney Royal Botanic Garden, 31st August

Red Room Poetry, in partnership with Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden, is offering a Ginko Walk opportunity next Saturday 31st August 2024 as part of ‘Poetry Month’. There is a cost of $50. The Ginko Walk will be lead by award-winning poets Eileen Chong and Lulu Houdini. Further details and booking at Red Room Poetry.

Registrations Closing Soon for Haiku Down Under 2024

Registrations for Haiku Down Under are free and close on August 11.

The Haiku Down Under weekend, taking place online via Zoom from Friday to Sunday, August 16-18, will provide a unique occasion to explore haiku and related forms in depth, and to connect with fellow haiku poets in Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

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