In 2012 The Haiku Foundation created the Touchstone Awards — the highest awards in the field — to reward excellence and innovation in the genre. Award categories are best individual haiku/senryu, best individual haibun, and best haiku publications. Overview: THF Touchstone Awards | Host: Bruce Feingold.
In the closing months of last year, we had a terrific response to our call for submissions to the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. The Awards recognize excellence and innovation in English-language haiku and senryu published in juried public venues during…
In 2010, The Haiku Foundation launched the Touchstone Awards with the aim of expanding possibilities for English-language haiku by encouraging excellence and innovation. Each year since, we've received a large number of inspired books. How to do justice to them?…
The Haiku Foundation annually awards a small selection of English-language haiku published during the previous year. We put a lot of effort into building a process that will work and be fair. The name of the Awards reflects our aspirations. We…
Best wishes for a fulfilling New Year, everyone! Nominations for the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems are welcome until midnight tonight, December 31. Send in one of your own haiku, if you like, and one by someone else; this…
Can you believe it's almost November? Time to get this year's Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems up and running... Please take a close look at the English-language haiku published during 2013, and send us two of your favorites. These are awards, not…