Call for Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 16

Echidna Tracks Australian Haiku Issue 16

Simon Hanson and Jennifer Sutherland will be the haiku editors for Echidna Tracks Australian Haiku Issue 16.

We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.

Australia, in the twenty-first century, is a vibrant multicultural society. We hope to celebrate, through the haiku/senryu collected on this website, the diversity of lifestyles, values, characters, customs, cultures, and historical experiences of the people inhabiting Australia, as well as the diversity of our landscapes, flora, and fauna. Please explore our categories for inspiration. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Summer or Autumn timeframe.

This is primarily a website for the collection of the best work of Australian haiku poets. We also accept haiku from those who have visited Australia and wish to share their experiences.

Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 16 Summer/Autumn 2026

The 2025 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai

Welcome to the annual celebration of Australian footy and haiku!

Calling haiku poets from all over the planet to participate in the Annual AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai for 2025. Over the past decade this has become a much-loved event – the one day of the year when haiku poets (expert and novice), footy fans and misanthropes turn their Zen or otherwise addled minds to producing a live haiku call of the AFL Grand Final. Sounds bonkers, doesn’t it? Come along and find out!

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‘My Haiku Pond’ 10th Anniversary Contest open for submissions until 30th September

My Haiku Pond is excited to announce its 10th Anniversary Haikai MHP Contest (2025), judged by Sherry & Zoe Grant with Michael Smeer. Each poet is invited to submit up to 3 haiku or senryu during 15th – 30th of September, 2025. The Event & contest is open to members and non-members. https://tinyurl.com/MHP10HaikaiContest

Spring Equinox 2025 – Haiku Musings Event

To mark the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox in 2025, we offer a new interactive opportunity – a chance to contribute a Haiku Musing and to respond to other poets’ musings. The prompt question for you to muse on is:

What do you find most helpful when writing haiku?

Writing a haiku can involve many considerations, such as where you find inspiration, the kinds of experiences you like to write about, your aims and approach, the haiku craft and techniques you employ, and how you go about editing your compositions. You are invited to share your thoughts on aspects important to your haiku compositional process. 

Please keep your Musing to no more than 250 words.

You may also respond to other poets’ musings with succinct comments.

This Haiku Musing event opens on Saturday, 20th September 2025, Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), and closes on Sunday, 28th September. 

We look forward to contributions from haiku poets worldwide.

Please enter your musing in the comments section below, and reply to a poet’s musing by using the ‘reply’ option below the comment.

Catchment – Poetry of Place : fifth edition, submissions open

The Spring-time submission period for Catchment – Poetry of Place will remain open between 21st September and 21st November, towards release of the journal’s 5th issue online on 21st December, 2025.

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