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Catchment – Poetry of Place : release of second edition

The Baw Baw Arts Alliance, in West Gippsland, Victoria, is proud to announce the online release of the second issue of Catchment – Poetry of Place, made accessible through this link on the southern winter solstice.

Register now for Haiku Down Under 2024

It’s now only two months until Haiku Down Under 2024, which will take place online via Zoom from Friday to Sunday, August 16-18, 2024. Register for free for Haiku Down Under 2024 via the form on the website’s Register page. You will receive an initial confirmation email. Zoom links will be sent in August. Registrations will close on August 11. A haiku contest to be run in conjunction with HDU 2024 will only be open to registered participants.

Visit the Programme page for current information on the mix of presentations, interactive workshops and other activities planned for the weekend. Visit the Presenters page for details of our exciting line-up of poet presenters.

For any queries or messages for the Haiku Down Under team, please use the link on the Contact Us page.

confluence haiku journal : call for submissions

submissions open 15 June to 15 July 2024.

confluence offers haiku poets a unique opportunity to showcase a representative selection of their work and to collaborate with other poets. Each issue of the journal will feature 1 to 2 poets and publish a representative sample (at least 15 poems) of the selected poet’s work along with critical commentary by other poets. Selected poets are also invited to participate in collaborative writing activities and be published in an year-end anthology. The editors intend to promote confluence widely in non-haiku poetry circles, so that selected poets may have their work read and appreciated by a more general readership.

Submissions open 15 June, 2024 and will be accepted through 15 July, 2024. confluence is edited by Ryland Shengzhi Li, Antoinette Cheung, and Aidan Castle. To learn more about the journal and to submit, please visit our website.

Urasenke Sydney Haiku Collaboration

Lilly Sievers is once again collecting haiku for her ongoing column in the Urasenke Sydney quarterly magazine. She would like to express her gratitude to the many Australian Haiku Society members who have contributed to prior columns and would love to continue featuring contemporary haiku.

Fleeting Words Tanka Contest 2024

You’re invited to submit your tanka in May to The United Haiku and Tanka Society (UHTS) 2024 Fleeting Words Tanka Contest. Submissions are open from 1 May to 31 May 2024. Entry is free for up to ten tanka.
The winning tanka will be featured in late June 2024 on the UHTS website along with the judges’ commentary.

For guidelines and submission details, please visit the UHTS webpage.

A reminder that submissions close at the end of April for Issue 13 of Echidna Tracks Australian Haiku

Submissions for Issue 13 of Echidna Tracks are open until the end of April. Please send us your best haiku. This collection is important because we aim at our regional group of haiku writers and present haiku that reflect our identity. Although we publish haiku with our distinctive flora and fauna, it is not about Australian animals. It is about our experience of living in Australia and our experience of life from our point of view. Australia is a vibrant, cosmopolitan and multicultural nation, and we strive to reflect that.

Please make submissions via our website. Submissions

Seeking ‘rhubarb’ poems for public display

Jenny Macaulay, of the Portarlington Haiku Society, is offering a unique opportunity. The Bellarine Historical Society (Victoria) is holding a fundraising day (expected to be 6th July) called ‘Rhubarb Rhubarb.’ It involves a baking competition, including relish/chutney, etc and an art competition for local artists. In amongst the exhibits Jenny would like to display haiku related to rhubarb and is calling for contributions. The haiku will be displayed along with the author’s name. It is purely for fun, and to promote haiku awareness.

If you have rhubarb haiku you’d like to contribute, please use the AHS Contact Secretary form to be put in touch with Jenny by email.

San Francisco International Haibun Contest 2024

Haiku Poets of Northern California

Deadline: May 1st, 2024
Entry Fee: US$5 for 1-3 haibun

For full contest details and all submission guidelines for the San Francisco International Haibun Contest for 2024 , scroll to the bottom of the HPNC Contest Guidelines page.