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Call for Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 14

A reminder that submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025 will close at the end of September 2024.

The editors look forward to receiving your best haiku to include in the journal.

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 We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.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.

AHS Now has a Facebook Page

The Australian Haiku Society is pleased to announce the launch of our AHS Facebook Page. This will supplement our website and the existing AHS Facebook Group, which is ably administered by Maureen Sexton and Wanda Amos. If you are a Facebook user, please follow our Facebook Page to stay up-to-date with announcements.

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Illawong Haiku Group Autumn Meeting

5th March 2024

Three of our group gathered on a pleasant early Autumn day at Prince Edward Park on the banks of the Woronora River – Margaret Mahony, Rita Potente and Carol Reynolds. Naturally we were disappointed that our other regular members couldn’t attend for various reasons. However, we were delighted to welcome Camille Mock for the first time. Camille’s interest in haiku was ignited by a workshop that Margaret Mahony and I presented last year at the Discovery Writers Group in Hurstville. We hope she will become a permanent member.

Portarlington Haiku Society

22 January 2024

Although having given up on summer, our group risked gathering outdoors for a breakfast meeting near the Portarlington Pier. Twenty degrees and a light but cool breeze were no deterrent as we shared an array of breakfast goodies before we got down to business.

Fringe Myrtles Meeting

The Fringe Myrtles met at our favourite location, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne. It was the day after the referendum on the Voice to Parliament (more on that below).

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Melbourne Launch of the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology

All haiku poets in Melbourne, Victoria and beyond are invited to attend the launch of under the same moon: the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, on Saturday 11 November at the Melbourne Athenaeum Theatre Library from 3.00pm to 5.00pm.

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Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra

Thursday 12 October 2023

Spring sunshine, carolling currawongs and a table for six beneath shady trees. A full house @ The Oaks this month—Kathy Kituai, Hazel Hall, Marietta McGregor, Glenys Ferguson, Gregory Piko and Jan Dobb—all of us ready for this month’s spell of lunch, chat and friendship. With haiku well in the mix, of course.

Illawong Haiku Group Winter Meeting

6th June 2023

It was indeed a wintry day outside with grey skies and the occasional light shower of rain as five of us gathered for our group’s 6^th birthday celebration. Apologies were received from Alison Miller and Joy Bye. While a few folk have come and gone since we began a valued core of enthusiasts remain.