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Deadline Extended


Submissions for the October 2023 issue of cattails have been extended until 15th August 2023.

cattails Editorial team

   
Submissions:

Submissions for Spring/April issue open: 1st February (midnight) GMT and close: 28th February (midnight) GMT.

Submissions for Autumn/ October issue open: 1st July (midnight) GMT and close: 31st July (midnight) GMT.

1. Send your work, including images for haiga, in the body of an email only – attachments will not be opened. You must include your country, full name, and email address in the body of the email to be considered. For haiga, images should have a resolution of at least 200 dpi and the image must be at least 1200 px in size.

2. We consider only works that have never been previously published elsewhere, either online or in print, (this includes on social media sites, blogs, and websites).

3. We do not consider works submitted elsewhere simultaneously, including to journals or competitions.

4. The work presented must be yours exclusively or if it's a collaboration, all persons involved in the collaboration must be included in the submission. The names of the authors (poet and photographer/artist) must be included in the haiga photograph/artwork.

5. We encourage, but do not require you to submit your works in your native language, along with the English version.

6. You may make one submission per reading period of:

Not more than 10 tanka
Not more than 12 haiku
Not more than 12 senryu
Not more than 3 haibun
Not more than 3 tanka prose
Not more than 3 haiga/tankart
7. What we do not accept:

mainstream short form poetry
sequences of any type
linked verse
rhymed work
books for review
Response Time:
Members of the editorial team will acknowledge your submission within a week of receipt. Final acceptances or rejections will be sent once the final selections are complete. If you happen to experience a delay, please contact the principal editor, Sonam, at allthingshaibun@gmail.com

REMINDER: Please send any/all other submissions (within the "body" of an email), with the Subject heading for the appropriate form you are submitting to, in all CAPITAL LETTERS.

Submit your work according to the following genre editors:

Tanka Editor: Jenny Fraser, New Zealand
submittocattails+TANKA@gmail.com with the subject heading: TANKA

Haiku Editor: Geethanjali Rajan, India
submittocattails+HAIKU@gmail.com with the subject heading: HAIKU

Senryu Editor: David J Kelly, Ireland
submittocattails+SENRYU@gmail.com with the subject heading: SENRYU

Haibun Editor: Sonam Chhoki, Bhutan
submittocattails+HAIBUN@gmail.com with the subject heading: HAIBUN

Tanka Prose Editor: Mike Montreuil, Canada
submittocattails+TANKAPROSE@gmail.com with the subject heading: TANKAPROSE

Haiga/Tankart Editor: Lavana Kray, Romania
submittocattails+HAIGA@gmail.com with the subject heading HAIGA

Associate Editor - Newsletter and Social Media : Shobhana Kumar, India

Managing Editor: Mike Montreuil, Canada
submittocattails+TECH@gmail.com with the subject heading: TECH

Copyright Policy:
All rights revert back to authors upon publication, although credits for having been first-published in cattails (both online and in print), are required, as are credits for any collaboration of any submission. We reserve the right to reprint accepted work in electronic or hardcopy form.

Copyright © 2017-2023, cattailsjournal.com
All rights reserved by the respective authors & artists.

Hello everyone,

We are very happy to announce that the October issue of cattails is now live! You can read it here:
http://cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails222.pdf

This issue is 193 pages  featuring 236 poets from around the globe.

Please follow us on our Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/cattails-109242101664238

We also urge you to follow our Twitter handle, @cattailsnews

These pages will offer information on submissions and general news. If there is anything specific you would like to query about, please write to us at cattailsnews@gmail.com.

In the meantime, happy reading and writing!

Warm Regards,

Shobhana Kumar
Associate Editor, cattails Newsletter,
on behalf  of the cattails team

Our submission window for the October 2022 issue, 1- 31 July, 2022, closes on 31 July, 2022. We hope this month has given you enough time to send in work to our team of committed editors.

If you're not on the cattails Mail Chimp and would like to be sent future notifications, please email me at cattailsnews@gmail.com. Should you have any queries regarding news from our end, please write to us at this address as well. 

Please follow us on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/cattails-109242101664238
We also urge you to follow our Twitter handle, @cattailsnews
For all queries regarding submissions and the cattails journal, please follow the guidelines on http://www.cattailsjournal.com/submissions.html

Happy reading and writing!

Shobhana Kumar
Associate Editor, Newsletter
and Social Media
on behalf of the cattails team

cattails submissions for October issue


The submissions for the October 2022 issue, open 1 July 2022 until 31 July 2022. Do make note of it in your calendars.

Further details on how to submit are right here:
http://www.cattailsjournal.com/submissions.html

As always, we look forward to reading work from both established and new writers from all over the world. We hope to continue our mission of being a home for different genres of Japanese short forms of poetry and we thank all of you for sending us your work. With respect to our social media handles, please follow us in order to stay abreast of the latest happenings at cattails. Please follow us on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/cattails-109242101664238

We also urge you to follow our Twitter handle, @cattailsnews. These pages will offer information on submissions and general news.

If there is anything specific you would like to query about, please write to us at cattailsnews@gmail.com.

In the meantime, happy writing! Get ready to submit!

Warm Regards,

Shobhana Kumar
Associate Editor, cattails Newsletter & Social Media
on behalf  of the cattails team

Hello, everyone!

Team cattails is delighted to announce that the April, 2022 issue is now live!  Here is the link for you to check right away: http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails221.pdf

This time, the issue showcases 199 poets from around the globe and we thank all the poets who have written in with their submissions. As mentioned in our earlier news, cattails now includes Tanka Prose, which will be part of the journal from this issue.

Also starting with this issue, Dhaatri Vengunad Menon debuts as the resident cartoonist. We feature Marion Clarke's vibrant landscape paintings of Northern Ireland.

Our next submission window for the October 2022 issue is 1- 31 July, 2022. Please block your calendars accordingly. http://cattailsjournal.com/submissions.html

If you're not on the cattails Mail Chimp and would like to be sent future notifications, please email me at cattailsnews@gmail.com.



Happy reading and writing, everyone!

Shobhana Kumar
Associate Editor,
cattails newsletter and social media 

Dear All,


The submission call for the April 2022 issue of cattails open on 1 February, 2022 and will close on 28 February, 2022.

Further details on how to submit are here:

https://cattailsjournal.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ddc660255249e8197774efe15&id=b5f26d7d93&e=5cb7770a5f

David Kelly, Ireland is Senryu Editor for this issue and we will also be accepting Tanka Prose with Mike Montreuil as Editor.

Shobhana Kumar, Associate Editor
on behalf of the cattails team

CATTAILS NOW POSTED


Greeting to all our contributors and readers!

The October 2021 issue of cattails has now been posted on the cattails website at   http://www.cattailsjournal.com/currentissue.html

We hope you enjoy reading the issue.

Sonam Chhoki and Mike Montreuil

UHTS SAMURAI HAIBUN CONTEST 2021


Dear all,

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ANNUAL UHTS SAMURAI HAIBUN CONTEST OPEN: 1st -30th September 2021


Please note this new email for your submissions: haibuncontest2021@gmail.com

Do "not" use the cattails submissions guidelines for contests.

RESULTS: The names of winners (only) will be notified by email and the winning poems will be published with the Judge's commentary in an upcoming issue of Seedpods, our e-newsletter.



Marianna Monaco

UHTS CONTEST COORDINATOR

email: haibuncontest2021@gmail.com

UHTS Fleeting Words 2021 RESULTS



There were 419 tanka, from the following 17 countries:

Australia
Belarus
Canada
Croatia
Finland
Germany
India
Ireland
Italy
Pakistan
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
The Netherlands
The Philippines
UK
USA

The contest was judged by Marilyn Humbert, the well-known Australian tanka poet, who leads the Bottlebrush tanka group in Sydney.


First Place: an'ya, USA
Second Place  - Daniela Misso, Italy
Third Place  -  Barbara A. Taylor, Australia


Honourable Mention - Debbie Strange, Canada


The full results with the judge's commentary and UHTS President, Alan Summers's statement can be found in the e-newsletter, Seedpods, which will be sent out to all UHTS poets by Erin Castaldi, Editor of Seedpods and UHTS Secretary.

Marianna Monaco, the Contest Coordinator has been inspirational and brilliant!



Sonam Chhoki
on behalf of the UHTS team

Hi All,

This is not a new issue but nonetheless, I imagine it still affects many poets. In haikai poetry there is a long tradition of recognizable allusion to previous poets as in the "Wanderer's Willow" haiku where Basho and Buson clearly refer to Saigyo's poem. Basho's haiku alludes to Saigyo's poem which describes Saigyo pausing before a stream beneath the willow by the roadside. In Buson's poem, he describes a scene where leaves fall from the willow and the stream has dried up, exposing the stones at the location.


In the current haikai scene here are two poets, two poems. Is this an instance of reference to an earlier poem or a coincidence of images and scenes or a deja-vu as in Michael Welch's article, Some Thoughts on Déjà-ku



throbbing headache
blinds drawn against the dawn
I picture
in the rise and fall of notes
birds flitting in the cold light

Published AHG September 2012

http://ahundredgourds.com/ahg14/tanka07.html


headache -
the shadow of a feeding bird
on the wooden blind

Published Notes From the Gean 17: March 2013

https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/09d979313e6264f39a146357fca25df7.pdf

Do share your thoughts.

light pilgrim

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/submissions.html

The Lure of the Threshold

Haibun

Sonam Chhoki

Copyright © 2021 Sonam Chhoki


Éditions de petits nuages
Ottawa, Canada
editionspetitsnuages@gmail.com


"The thread that runs through this cycle of poems is rich in faith, in dream, myth, magic, and the music of words. I know that each haibun rises with questions and ends with a haiku planted squarely in the here and now—here on Earth.

sirens through the night moth in a jar"

Glenn G Coats

Presenting her haibun as 'poems,' Chhoki recounts snippets of supernatural stories, confidential visions. All invite us in. Yet all usher us out at the end with a haiku spell – pine branches rise / like lammergeier wings; a blue thrush whistles in the rain; rope bridge to the shrine / Orion at dawn.

Stephen Henry Gill, Lecturer Kyoto University, Leader of Hailstone Haiku Circle, Japan

APRIL 2021  cattails


Dear All,

THE APRIL 2021 ISSUE OF CATTAILS, the bi-annual journal of the United Haiku and Tanka Society is now online : http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/CattailsApril2021.pdf

It showcases haiku, tanka, senryu, haiga and haibun by over 200 poets from around the globe. Its dedicated Youth Corner has poems and critical appreciation by undergraduates of the Symbiosis International University, Pune. This issue features black and white photographs by Lavana Kray and cartoon by Gautam Nadkarni.

The next issue is October 2021.  Submissions open: 1st1st July (midnight) GMT and close: 31st July (midnight) GMT. ) For further details please check submission guidelines: http://www.cattailsjournal.com/submissions.html

 
Erin Castaldi

UHTS Secretary

FLEETING WORDS TANKA CONTEST 2021

Dear all,

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ANNUAL UHTS FLEETING WORDS TANKA CONTEST open 1st May and close 31st May 2021. Please note that we have a new, shorter submission window.

Send your submissions directly to me at  marianna.monaco@gmail.com

Please do "not" use the cattails submissions guidelines for contests.



RESULTS: The names of winners (only) will be notified by email and the winning poems will be published with the Judge's commentary in an upcoming issue of Seedpods, our e-newsletter. To receive a copy of Seedpods, please join UHTS by contacting our Secretary, Erin Castaldi at peakaboo0013@yahoo.com with the subject heading "UHTS MEMBERSHIP"


Marianna Monaco

UHTS CONTEST COORDINATOR

RESULTS of the 2021 UHTS AHA HAIKU/ SENRYU CONTEST

Judged by Cynthia Rowe

President: Australian Haiku Society [2011-2016]
President: Bondi Writers Group FAW [2007-2010]
Editor: Haiku Xpressions [2010- ]


There were 1278 submissions from 35 countries.

First Place: Daniela Misso, Italy
Second Place: Joshua Gage, USA
Third Place: Jeaunice Tribue Burnette, USA

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):

Jay Friedenberg, USA
Julie Bloss Kelsey, USA
Cezar Ciobica, Romania
Joanne Morcom, Canada

The full results with the Judge's comments and the UHTS President, Alan Summers's report are available in the UHTS e-newsletter, Seedpods. To receive a copy of Seedpods, please join UHTS by contacting our Secretary, Erin Castaldi: peakaboo0013@yahoo.com with the subject heading "UHTS MEMBERSHIP".


Marianna Monaco.
UHTS Contest Coordinator

CLOSE OF 2021 UHTS
CONTEST DEADLINE


Dear all,

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2021 UHTS "AHA" HAIKU/ SENRYU CONTEST CLOSES ON 31 January Midnight GMT.

Please do not submit after the deadline to avoid confusion and disappointment.


RESULTS: The names of winners (only) will be notified by email and the winning poems will be published with the Judge's commentary in an upcoming issue of Seedpods, our e-newsletter. To receive a copy of Seedpods, please join UHTS by contacting our Secretary, Erin Castaldi at peakaboo0013@yahoo.com with the subject heading "UHTS MEMBERSHIP".


Marianna Monaco,
UHTS CONTEST COORDINATOR

Submission Call for APRIL 2021 cattails

Submissions for Spring/April issue open: 1st February (midnight) GMT and close: 28th February (midnight) GMT.


Please note our new shorter submission window.

Make sure you submit your work to the correct editor. N.B. Susan Constable is our new the tanka editor. Sonam Chhoki is the haibun editor for April and Mike Montreuil for the October issue.

1. Send your submissions, including images for haiga, in the body of an email only – attachments will not be opened. You must include your country, full name, and email address in the body of the email to be considered. For haiga, images should have a resolution of at least 200 dpi and the image must be at least 1200 px in size.

2. We consider only works that have never been previously published elsewhere, either online or in print, (this includes on social media sites, blogs, and websites).

3. We do not consider works submitted elsewhere simultaneously, including to journals or competitions.

4. The work presented must be yours exclusively or if it's a collaboration, all persons involved in the collaboration must be included in the submission. The names of the authors (poet and photographer/artist) must be included in the haiga photograph/artwork.

5. We encourage, but do not require you to submit your works in your native language, along with the English version.

6. You may make one submission per reading period of:
• Not more than 10 tanka
• Not more than 12 haiku
• Not more than 12 Senryu
• Not more than 3 haibun
• Not more than 3 Haiga/Tankart

7. What we do not accept:
• mainstream short form poetry
• tanka prose
• sequences of any type
• linked verse
• rhymed work
• books for review

Response Time:
Members of the editorial team will acknowledge your submission within a week of receipt. Final acceptances or rejections will be sent once the final selections are complete. If you happen to experience a delay, please contact the principal editor, Sonam, at allthingshaibun@gmail.com

REMINDER: Please send any/all other submissions (within the "body" of an email), with the Subject heading for the appropriate form you are submitting to, in all CAPITAL LETTERS.
Submit your work according to the following genre editors: (see definitions page if you're unclear about these distinctions)

Tanka Editor: Susan Constable, Canada
submittocattails+tanka@gmail.com with the subject heading: TANKA

Haiku Editor: Geethanjali Rajan, India
submittocattails+HAIKU@gmail.com with the subject heading: HAIKU

Senryu Editor: Gautam Nadkarni, India
submittocattails+SENRYU@gmail.com with the subject heading: SENRYU

Haibun Editor: April Issue : Sonam Chhoki, Bhutan
submittocattails+HAIBUN@gmail.com with the subject heading: HAIBUN

Haibun Editor: October Issue : Mike Montreuil, Canada
submittocattails+HAIBUN@gmail.com with the subject heading: HAIBUN

Haiga/Tankart Editor: Lavana Kray, Romania
submittocattails+HAIGA@gmail.com with the subject heading HAIGA

Youth Corner Editor: Kala Ramesh, India
submittocattails+YOUTH@gmail.com with the subject heading: YOUTH

Managing Editor: Mike Montreuil, Canada
submittocattails+TECH@gmail.com with the subject heading: TECH

UHTS Secretary: Erin Castaldi
submittocattails+JOIN@gmail.com with the subject heading: JOIN
Copyright Policy:

All rights revert back to authors upon publication, although credits for having been first-published in cattails (both online and in print), are required, as are credits for any collaboration of any submission. We reserve the right to reprint accepted work in electronic or hardcopy form.

Erin Castaldi
UHTS Secretary

SUBMISSION CALL for 2021 UHTS AHA CONTEST

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2021 UHTS AHA HAIKU/SENRYU CONTEST OPEN 1st January UNTIL 31st January 2021

Please note our shorter submission window.

For further details on how to submit please check the contest guidelines
here: http://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/contest-submission-guidelines

Send your submissions to my email below:

Marianna Monaco
UHTS Contest Coordinator
marianna.monaco@gmail.com

OCTOBER 2020 cattails


Dear All,

THE OCTOBER 2020 ISSUE OF CATTAILS, the bi-annual journal of the United Haiku and Tanka Society is now online on the UHTS website:

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattailsOCTOBER2020.pdf


This issue features haiga, haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun by 203 poets from around the world. It also contains photographs of butterflies by Debbie Strange.

The next issue is April 2021. Submissions open: 1st February (midnight) GMT and close: 28th February (midnight) GMT.) For further details please check the submission guidelines:

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/submissions.html

This issue is a testimony of your indomitable spirit in these difficult times. Thank you for entrusting us with your work.


Erin Castaldi
Secretary UHTS