Pamela A. Babusci is starting a new print tanka journal called the art of tanka, beginning in the fall of 2023. Submissions are open from September 1st to November 1st. If you are interested in submitting and/or subscribing, please email Pamela at: moongate44@gmail.com for details.
There have been a few international competition results come out recently in which Australians have fared well. Lyn Reeves was one of the winners of this year’s Haiku Calendar Competition, and Mark Miller, together with Lyn, was among the runners-up. Mark Miller took out second prize in the 26th Mainichi Haiku Contest, in which Rob Scott also received an honorable mention. Well done Lyn, Mark and Rob!
Australian haiku poets also did well in the recently announced Haiku section results of the New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition. Gavin Austin and Owen Bullock each received ‘Highly commended’, while five poets were ‘Commended’ for their entries: Jan Dobb, Simon Hanson, Ron Moss, Lyn Reeves, Cynthia Rowe. Congratulations to all these fine poets!
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.
Catchment – Poetry of Place offers a new opportunity for poets resident in Australia, both in tanka and longer verse forms. Catchment is a literary journal within the website for the Bawbaw Arts Alliance, based in West Gippsland, Victoria.
Continue reading “News for Australian tanka poets”With half of our group holidaying up north to escape the Victorian winter, our gathering was rather small this time round. Four of us donned jackets and scarves and enjoyed a beach walk close to home before gathering around a table in a cafe for coffee, chat and later, lunch.
Continue reading “Portarlington Haiku Society Winter Gathering”
Australian Haiku Society 