Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 12: Open Theme are now open

For Echidna Tracks, Issue 12, we invite your best and previously unpublished haiku and senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.

The submission period for Echidna Tracks Issue 12: Open Theme will be open during the month of September 2023. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form and during the time the link is open.

Anybody can submit work that is relevant to Australia – but as this is a website for the collection of Australian haiku, the work we are looking for will come from an authentic experience of either living in or visiting Australia. Unfortunately, we cannot consider your submission when we cannot verify an Australian connection.

Entries open for the UHTS 2023 Samurai Haibun Contest

During September you are invited to submit your haibun to The United Haiku and Tanka Society (UHTS) 2023 Samurai Haibun Contest. This is a yearly contest celebrating the Autumn Festival traditional procession of Samurai at the Nikko Toshogu shrine every 17th October. Deadline: submissions open from 1 September to 30 September 2023 only.

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Enchanted Garden Haiku

Editor Steliana Voicu has just released the third issue of this new online journal. Submissions for issue four are open from 1st to 15th September, while issue five submissions will be open in November. See the Submissions calendar page for more details, including the theme for upcoming issues.

You can now subscribe by email to Enchanted Garden Haiku via a Subscribe feature in the left side panel of the Enchanted Garden website.

Results of the 2022 John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku

Dear Members,

I am delighted to be able to announce the winners of the 2022 John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku. The response to the competition was fantastic once again, and I would like to extend a huge thanks to all poets for contributing their poems.

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2023 New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition

The 2023 New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition is open for four categories:
• Open Adult (18+ years)
• Open Haiku (18+ years)
• Open Junior (17 years and younger)
• Haiku Junior (17 years and younger)
The competition closes on May 31st, 2023, at midnight New Zealand time.

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Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal

Calling for submissions – deadline 2nd April

Steliana Cristina Voicu from Romania is currently seeking submissions for her Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal.

Submission Rules :
Send one unpublished haiku to haikuenchanted@gmail.com in the body of the e-mail; no attachments please. Please do not send haiku that are under consideration elsewhere.
Place your name and country after your haiku.
Put “submission April” in the subject line.
Theme: Traditions
Deadline: 2 April 2023
Publication: mid April.