Category: Members’ News

Success for Jan Dobb – With Words Haiku Contest

Australian haiku poet Jan Dobb has recently been named as joint first prize winner of the 2014 With Words Summer Haiku Contest, for the following poem:

dry thunder
a freight train crosses
the drought

The work of another Australian haiku poet – Carole Harrison – is listed as Highly Commended (although the text of Carole’s poem has not been posted online).|

Results of the 2015 With Words competition can be viewed through this link:
http://area17.blogspot.com.au

Readers accessing this blog will find – at the top – the names of poets whose haiku have been rated as Highly Commended and Commended.

The prize-winning poems appear further down the page (beneath other visual material).

Competition rules allowed poets to offer pieces which had been previously published – Jan’s winning haiku first appeared in “Windfall 3”.

Jan Dobb’s success here goes hand-in-hand with another haiku of hers having been short-listed recently in the Touchstone Awards.

Touchstone Distinguished Book Award to Ron C. Moss

Further congratulations go to leading Australian haiku poet, Ron C. Moss.

Having recently won the Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Award for 2014, Ron has just become one of three recipients of a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award for 2014, for “The Bone Carver” (published by Snapshot Press) – his new haiku collection that features a wide range of prize-winning poems.

Ron C. Moss also had a haiku shortlisted in the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems.

Details regarding this set of awards can be viewed at this link: http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-awards-for-2014

Another Australian haiku poet – Jan Dobb – likewise received recognition in this same set of awards.

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FreeXpresSion Haiku Competition 2015 results

Congratulations to Sandra Simpson for taking out First Prize in the Haiku Section of the FreeXpresSion 2015 Literary Competition. Rodney Williams was awarded Second Prize. Nathalie Buckland received Third Prize.

First Place – Sandra Simpson, NZ

planning her eulogy jars of carefully labelled seeds

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Successes in Kusamakura Haiku Competition

Australian haiku poets Simon Hanson and Jennifer Sutherland both deserve congratulations for winning prizes in the 19th Kusamakura Haiku Competition.

The following haiku by Simon was one of the entries sharing second prize:

left behind
skimming stones
moonlit ripples

The following haiku by Jennifer was one of the entries sharing third prize:

dandelion a wish lingers on the breeze

Ron C. Moss wins Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Award 2014

Leading Australian haiku poet Ron C. Moss has won the prestigious Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Award for 2014 for the following haiku (included in the December issue):

old horses
endless days of rain
in their eyes

This haiku received 25 nominations, totalling 188 points.

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Launching Ron C. Moss’ The Bone Carver & Windfall 3

Ron C. Moss’ collection of prize-winning haiku The Bone Carver will be launched by Beverley George (former President of the Australian Haiku Society) on Friday, February 20.

To commence at 5.30 p.m., the launch will take place at Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts (Ground Floor, 91 Murray Street, Hobart).

RSVP to Ron C. Moss, ronmoss8@gmail.com

Signed copies of The Bone Carver are available by mail by contacting this address.

Following the launch of Ron’s book, Robyn Mathison will also launch Windfall: Australian Haiku, Issue 3, edited by Beverley George and published by Peter Macrow through Blue Giraffe Press.

Supporters of Australian haiku in a position to do so are strongly encouraged to attend

February 08, 2015

Result from Golden Triangle Haiku Contest

Australian haiku poet Simon Hanson has won second place in the Golden Triangle Haiku Contest in the United States with the following haiku:

midnight snow
whispers of light
in the darkness

The competition was winter-themed. Sixty poems were chosen for display in flower beds along the streets of Washington DC during the American winter.

Simon was also awarded an honourable mention and given runner-up for three other haiku in this contest.

IHS International Haiku Competition Results 2014

Winners of the 7th Irish Haiku Society International Competition 2014 include the following Australian haiku poets:

Cynthia Rowe (Third Prize), Jan Dobb and Jan O’Loughlin (both Highly Commended).

Please feel free to visit the IHS site through this link:

http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm

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