As of August 27, 2010

CALENDAR OF conference dates

Contest entry, publication SUBMITTAL, AND OTHER deadlines

*        Please send corrections and additions to the appropriate address listed on The Haiku Foundation Web site.

 

 

Date or Deadline

(In-hand unless noted

otherwise at official source for event)

EVENT

(Always verify items of interest with the official source as dates/events/publications do change, and last year's information may no longer apply. We make every effort to keep this calendar current and correct, and hope you will help us do that.)

 

No deadline indicated

Submissions: Ashai Haikuists Network (Japan), online

 

 

Submissions (members only): Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society, online

 

 

Submissions (British Haiku Society members only): Blithe Spirit (UK), quarterly print

 

 

Submissions: bottle rockets print

 

 

Submissions: Contemporary haibun online quarterly online with annual print version

 

 

Submissions: The Electronic Poetry Network, poem-a-day online

 

 

Submissions: Ginyu, print (Japan)

 

 

Submissions: Haibun Today, online [Switching from blog to quarterly online journal]

 

 

Submissions: Haiku Canada Newsletter and Sheets

 

 

Submissions: Haiku News, online

 

 

Submissions: Haiku Reality, online (Serbia)

 

 

Submissions: Haiku Spirit, online (Ireland)

 

 

Submissions: Ink Sweat & Tears (Britain), online

 

Published end of 2010

Submissions: First issue - Journal of Renga & Renku

 

 

Online interlingual journal Lishanu is being revived. Send submissions to the new editor John Kinory at kinory(AT)appleinter(DOT)net. Submission rules are at www.lishanu.com/01/sub.htm

 

 

Submissions: January issue of Magnapoets print

 

 

Submissions: Mainichi Daily News (Japan) – Best of 2009 – Annual Selections

 

 

Submissions: (pen name only): Masks – near future online [haikumasks (at) gmail (dot) com]

 

 

Submissions: Issue #2, Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, online and print

 

 

Submissions: Modern Haiga, digital and print

 

 

Submissions: paper wasp (Australia), print

 

 

Submissions: Presence, print (UK)

 

 

Submissions: Roadrunner Haiku Journal – quarterly online

 

 

Submissions: Rusty Tea Kettle (tanka quarterly, online

 

 

Submissions: Shamrock Haiku Journal, online

 

 

Submissions: South by Southeast, print [saddiss (at) richmond (dot) edu]

 

 

Submissions: (three previously published haiku): Tobacco Road blog

 

 

Submissions: Whirligig [new Dutch/English haiku journal publishes May and November]

 

 

Submissions: Wisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka print 

 

 

Submissions: World Haiku Review online

 

Some dates may have changed; always verify dates of interest with the official source

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January 1

Submission period begins for spring issue: Acorn print

 

 

Submission period begins for summer issue: Concise Delight print

 

 

Submissions for winter issue: Ambrosia, digital and print

 

 

Membership renewals due: Haiku Society of America

 

 

Membership renewals due: Haiku Poets of Northern California (HPNC) 

 

 

A Little Haiku Contest: 2010 the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures.

Results

 

January 11, 2011

Attend: Winter Meeting – Haiku Poets of Northern California

 

January 15

Submission period begins for spring issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

January 20

Entries: 12th Annual Apokalipsa Haiku Contest (limit 6 haiku in English; poets from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina may send haiku in their mother tongue)

 

January 31

Submissions: Haiku Canada Annual Members' Anthology

 

 

Membership renewals due: Haiku Canada

 

January 31, 2011

Entries:  The British Haiku Awards – click on "Competitions" [haiku and haibun]

 

 

Submissions for spring Issue: Atlas Poetica (tanka) print and digital

 

 

Entries: Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Awards

Results: 2008 - 2010

 

 

Entries: Kikakuza Haibun Contest, guidelines from nyuasa88s (at) regalia (dot) nir (dot) jp

 

 

Entries: Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition

Results: 2010

 

February 1

Submissions for spring issue: Ribbons (tanka) print

 

February 14

Entries: The Betty Drevniok Award for 2010

Results: 2006 | 2009

 

February 15

Submission period begins for spring/summer issue: Frogpond print

 

February 15

Submissions for spring issue: Modern English Tanka print and online

 

 

Submissions spring/summer issue (Tanka Canada members only): Gusts, print

 

February 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

February 26

Entries: ukiaHaiku Festival Annual Haiku Contest

Results: 2010

 

February 28

Submission period ends for spring issue: Acorn print

 

 

Submissions for spring issue: Chrysanthemum online English/German. For more info, e-mail: chrysanthemum (at) gmx (dot) at

 

February 28, 2011

Entries: Haiku Society of America Lionel Einbond Renku Competition

Results: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

[results 2010 – scroll to bottom]

 

March 1

Submissions (HPNC members only): spring/summer issue Mariposa print

 

 

Submissions: 3Lights: Quarterly Journal of Haiku, Senryu & Tanka

 

 

Submission period begins (one month only): Daily Haiku (Canada), online with print version

 

 

Entries:  Annual Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Award

Results: 2007

 

March 12

Entries: Robert Frost International Poetry Contest (Haiku section included)

 

March 13

Entries:  Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award Competition

Results: 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

 

March 15

Submissions:  Modern Haiku print

 

 

Submissions for June issue: The Heron's Nest online with annual print version

 

 

Submission period ends for spring issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

March 25

Entries: Annual Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition

Results: Previous years

 

March 30

Submissions for June issue: Notes from the Gean quarterly online

 

March 31

Entries:  Haiku Magazine Contest

 

 

Entries:  Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards

Results: Previous years

 

 

Submissions: Presence, print  (UK)

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, digital and print

 

 

Submission period ends: Daily Haiku (Canada), online with print version

 

 

Submissions for May issue: Eucalypt Tanka Journal (Australia), print

 

 

Entries: Romanian Haiku Contest – for details: valentin (dot) nicolitov (at) yahoo (dot) fr (French), and vasilemoldovan (at) yahoo (dot) com (English)

Results: 2009

 

 

Entries: Haiku Now! Contest

Results: 2010

 

April 1

Join: New Zealand Poetry Society [see info re dues change if joining mid-way in membership year]

 

 

Submissions for spring issue: Ambrosia, digital and print

 

 

Submission period begins: Catzilla! Cat Tanka & Kyoka* an anthology on the theme of cats

 

 

Entries: International bilingual Calico Cat haiku contest. Contact origahaiku (at) yahoo (dot) com

Results: 2009

 

April 9

Attend: 2010 World Haiku Festival - Nagasaki

 

April 15

Submission period ends for spring/summer issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submission: red lights (tanka) print

 

 

Submission period begins for summer issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

 

Entries:  Kaji Aso Studio Annual Haiku Contest

Results: 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005  | 2004  | 2003

 

April 16

Entries: Katikati Haiku Contest

Results: 2010

 

April 18

Attend: Ukiah Haiku Festival, Ukiah, California

 

 

Entries: Japan-EU English Haiku Contest

 

 

Attend: HPNC Spring Meeting 2010 from 1-5 PM at Fort Mason, Room C-235. San Francisco, CA

 

April 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

 

Submission period ends for summer issue: Concise Delight print

 

April 24, 2010

Attend: 31st annual Haiku Holiday with the North Carolina Haiku Society  in Chapel Hill, NC

 

April 26 – May 7, 2010

Participate: Online Full Bloom Renga

 

April 29, 2010

Celebrate: Poem In Your Pocket Day!

 

April 29

Submissions: Famous Reporter (Australia), online and print (note restrictions)

 

May 1

Submissions for summer issue: Ribbons (tanka) print

 

 

Submissions for July issue: Stylus Poetry Journal (Australia), online

 

 

Submissions for spring/summer issue: Moonbathing: A Journal of Women's Tanka (women only)

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka

 

 

Submissions for Lynx

 

May 5

Submissions for June issue: Taj Mahal Review (India), print

 

May 7, 2010

Last day to participate: Online Full Bloom Renga

 

 

Entries: Tanka Society of America contest

Results: Previous years

 

May 12-23, 2010

Attend: 2010 Bath Japanese Festival in Bath, United Kingdom  AND Participate in the Online International Haiku Spring Festival 2010 [a partnership with the Bath Festival]

 

May 15

Submissions for summer issue:  Mayfly print

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Modern English Tanka print and online

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Riverbed, online with annual print anthology

 

 

Entries: Francine Porad Haiku Award Contest

Results: Previous years

 

 

Attend: Spring 2010 Oregon HSA Regional Meeting, Westfir, Oregon

 

May 21

Submissions: Haigaonline online (haiga e-zine)

 

May 21-23

Attend: Haiku Canada Conference in Montreal

 

May 23

Entries: Kids Count for Earthday Haiku Contest

Results: 2010

 

May 25

Entries: Genkissu! Spirits Up! World Wide Hekinan Haiku Contest

 

 

Entries: Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial haiku Contest

Results: 2000|2009

 

 

Entries: Klostar Ivanić Haiku Contest, Croatia [dvrozic (at)optinet (dot) hr]

Results: 2009|2008|2007

 

 

Submissions for July issue of Magnapoets print

 

 

Entries: International Poetry Competition, New Zealand Poetry Society

 

 

Entries: Haiku Junior International Poetry Compeition, New Zealand Poetry Society – for poets 17 years or younger

 

 

Entries: International Haiku Poetry Contest in Italian Language

 

 

Entries: Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2010

Results:  2009|2008|2007|2006    

 

 

Submissions for summer Issue: Atlas Poetica (tanka) print and digital

 

June 1

EXTENSION: Submissions: haijinx quarterly

 

 

Submission period begins for fall issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions: 3Lights: Journal of Micropoetry

 

 

Entries:  Annual Tanka Splendor Award

Results: Previous years

 

 

Submissions: 6th Haiku Comic or Comic Haiku - Apokalipsa magazine

 

June 5

Attend: Haiku Circle – Greenfield, MA

 

June 6

Entries: ITO EN Haiku Project 2009 Contest (winning haiku will appear on tea products)

Results: 2010

 

 

Attend: Katikati Haiku Pathway 10th birthday celebration

 

June 10-12, 2010

Attend: Poetry in Motion [scroll down]

 

June 12 [postmarked]

Entries: Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest

Results: 2010

 

June 15

Submissions for September issue: The Heron's Nest online with annual print version

 

 

Entries: 2010 Haiku Pen Contest

Results: 2009

 

 

Submission period ends for summer issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

June 17, 2010

Attend: 7th annual Wabi Sabi celebration–Haiku Workshop led by David Grayson – Mill Valley, CA

 

June 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

June 25

Attend: HSA Quarterly Meeting – Seattle, WA

 

June 30

Submissions: Haiku Society of America annual members' anthology THEME: Biodiversity

 

 

Submissions for September issue: Notes from the Gean quarterly online

 

 

Submissions: Catzilla! Cat Tanka & Kyoka* an anthology on the theme of cats

 

June 30, 2011

Submissions: Annual Seasons Greetings Letter. Haiku/Tanka, published/unpublished. 2011 theme, dusk/sunset/twilight. To Mohammed H. Siddiqui, 8339 Kendale Rd, Baltimore, MD 21234-5013

 

July 1

Submission period begins for fall issue: Acorn print

 

 

Submission period begins for winter issue: Concise Delight print

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Ambrosia, digital and print

 

 

Entries: The Haiku Dreaming Australia Awards

Results: 2009

 

July 15

Submissions:  Modern Haiku print

 

 

Submission period begins for autumn issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

July 18, 2010

Attend: Summer meeting: Haiku Poets of Northern California

 

July 25

Submissions: (Using a pen name/haigyo) for masks, a new section of Roadrunner [guidelines: haikumasks (at) gmail (dot) com]

 

July 31

Submissions: for Basho Festival on October 12

 

August 1

Submission period ends for fall issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions for autumn issue: Ribbons (tanka) print

 

 

Submissions: American Tanka print

 

 

Entries: The Saigyo Awards for Tanka 2010

 

August 15

Submissions for autumn issue: Modern English Tanka print and online

 

 

Submissions for fall issue: Riverbed, online with annual print anthology

 

 

Submissions fall/winter issue (Tanka Canada members only): Gusts, print

 

 

Entries: 2010 Haiku Pen Contest

Results: 2009 Haiku Contest [scroll down]

 

August 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

 

Submissions: haijinx quarterly

 

August 22, 2010

Attend: Two Autumns Poetry Reading: Haiku Poets of Northern California

 

August 31

Submission period ends for fall issue: Acorn print

 

 

Submissions for fall issue: Chrysanthemum online English/German. For more info, e-mail: chrysanthemum (at) gmx (dot) at

 

 

Submissions for Tanka Society of America’s Members’ Anthology

 

 

Entries: Annual Mainichi Daily News Haiku Contest

Results: 2005 - 2009

 

August 31

Entries:  Harold G. Henderson Awards for Haiku

Results: Previous years

 

 

Entries:  Gerald Brady Memorial Awards for Senyru

Results: Previous years

 

 

Entries: 2010 Think Tanka Contest

Results: 2009 Tanka Contest

 

Fall 2010 – TBA

Walking Meditation and Haiku Retreat with Sachiyo Ito  [scroll down]

 

September 1

Submissions (HPNC members only): fall/winter issue Mariposa print

 

 

Submission period begins (one month only): Daily Haiku(Canada), online with print version

 

 

Submissions to Lynx

 

 

Submissions: 3Lights: Journal of Micropoetry

 

September 10

Entries: Kusamakura Haiku Competition

Results: Previous years

 

Sept. 10-12, 2010

Attend: HSA Quarterly Meeting AND Cradle of American Haiku Festival #2 – Mineral Point, Wisconsin

 

 

Submissions for Asahi Weekly Haiku Column. One unpublished haiku to: aw1 (at) asahi (dot) com

 

September 15

Submission period begins for winter issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions for December issue: The Heron's Nest online with annual print version

 

 

Submission period ends for autumn issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

 

Entries: Haiku International Association

Results: Click on "Previous Prize Winners"

 

September 30

Submissions for winter issue: Modern Haibun and Tanka Prose, digital and print

 

 

Submissions for November issue: Eucalypt Tanka Journal (Australia), print

 

 

Submission period ends (one month only): Daily Haiku (Canada), online with print version

 

 

Submissions for December issue: Notes from the Gean quarterly online

 

October 1

Entries: Penumbra Haiku Contest (winners published in chapbook)

 

 

Entries: The Jerry Kilbride Memorial English-Language Haibun Contest

 

 

Entries: International bilingual Calico Cat haiku contest. Contact origahaiku (at) yahoo (dot) com

Results: 9th|8th|7th|6th|5th|4th|3rd|2nd|1st

 

 

Submissions for autumn issue: Ambrosia, digital and print

 

 

Submissions for Asahi Weekly Haiku Column. One unpublished haiku to: aw1 (at) asahi (dot) com

 

October 10, 2010

Attend: Fall Meeting – Haiku Poets of Northern California

 

October 12, 2010

Attend: Basho Festival in Iga City, Japan

 

October 15

Submissions for winter issue: Riverbed, online with annual print anthology

 

 

Submissions for Masks

 

 

Entries: Charles Dickson Chapbook Contest

 

 

Entries: Single Island Press Haiku Contest

 

 

Entries: The Shoreless River Haiku Contest

 

 

Submission period begins for winter issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

October 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

October 31

Entries:  Haiku Poets of Northern California - Haiku, Senryu, Tanka

Results: 2009 | 20082007 | 2006 |2005 | 2004

 

 

Entries:  Haiku Presence Award

Results: 2009, 2008

 

 

Entries: Irish Haiku Society International Competition

Results: 2008 and 2009 [scroll down]

 

 

Submissions for autumn Issue: Atlas Poetica (tanka) print and digital

 

 

Entries: The 3rd Kokako Tanka Competition

 

 

Submission period ends for winter issue: Concise Delight print

 

November 1

Submissions for winter issue: Ribbons (tanka) print

 

 

Submissions for fall/winter issue: Moonbathing: A Journal of Women's Tanka (women only)

 

 

Submissions for December issue: Haigaonline (haiga e-zine)

 

 

Submissions for January issue: Stylus Poetry Journal (Australia), online

 

 

Entries: Moonbathing Tanka Contest (Women Only). Email moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com for info

 

November 4-7, 2010

Attend: Seabeck (Washington) Haiku Getaway: Registration – Sept. 1 – Oct. 29 – Discount if by Sept. 30 (sponsored by Haiku Northwest)

 

November 10

Submissions for Asahi Weekly Haiku Column. One unpublished haiku to: aw1 (at) asahi (dot) com

 

 

November 15

Entries: The Heron's Nest Illustration Contest [for guidelines, write Ithacan (at) earthlink (dot) net]

Results: 2009 | 2008

 

 

Submission period ends for winter issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions for winter issue:  Mayfly print

 

 

Submissions:  Modern Haiku print      (Note: New mailing address)

 

 

Submission: red lights (tanka) print

 

 

Submissions for winter issue: Modern English Tanka print and online

 

 

Submissions for December issue: Taj Mahal Review (India), print

 

November 20

Submissions: haijinx quarterly

 

November 21

Entries:  With Words International Online Haiku Competition

Results: Previous Years

 

November 24

Submissions for tinywords Issue #1 (online – one poem per day)

 

November 26

Attend: 12th Lecture Meeting: Haiku International Assn. - Tokyo

 

 

November 30

Entries:  Haiku Poets of Northern California - Rengay

Results: 2009 | 20082007 | 2006 |2005 | 2004

 

December 1

Entries: The Winter Moon Awards for Haiku 2009 (see HSA newsletter for details)

 

 

Submissions: 3Lights: Journal of Micropoetry

 

 

Submissions for winter issue: Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka

 

December 1, 2011

Entries: 2012 Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Competition

Results: 2008  2010

 

December 4

Attend: HSA Quarterly Meeting – Boston, MA

 

December 10

Submissions for Asahi Weekly Haiku Column. One unpublished haiku to: aw1 (at) asahi (dot) com

 

December 15

Submissions for March issue: The Heron's Nest online with annual print version

 

 

Submission period ends for winter issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

December 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

December 27

Entries: Sketchbook Winter Solstice Haiku Thread

 

December 30

Submissions for March issue: Notes from the Gean quarterly online

 

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