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The Pan Haiku Review issue 3 (Summer 2024) is now out:
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/

"I think Pan Haiku Review is really energising the haiku/haibun scene" - Sheila Barksdale

Packed with multiple genres as well as haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, tanka prose etc...
An art gallery plus two book reviews!

Also enjoy the haibun challenge for the next issue!

Alan Summers
editor-in-chief, Pan Haiku Review

Haiku Summer School 2024
Monday 29th July 2024 to Friday 2nd August 2024

We are delighted to announce that we will be holding an online Haiku Summer School this year.
 
 
Bookings now open and preliminary details!
https://www.callofthepage.org/summer-school-2024/

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Open Season!
 
Pan Haiku Review issue 3 Summer 2024
Open for submission throughout April/May 2024

Publication date: July 2024

Any genre but 10 lines maximum for entire submission:
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/


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Delighted to announce I am one of the winners in the Flash Fiction category for a haibun:
https://www.bournemouthwritingfestival.co.uk/writing-competition

It was great to see both of my haibun long-listed too!

As 'Call of the Page' tutor, I've been encouraging our two haibun groups for 'The Shape of Haibun' to explore further into the publishing world. Both classes are fully booked, but a waiting list is available to sign onto.

Zoom workshop in association with the Nick Virgilio Association.

Beginner/Intermediate Haiku with Alan Summers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiQ2yPwqKvI

PHR New Year's Eve 2023 issue
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/


Next issue: Open Season issue details

Pan Haiku Review issue 3 Summer 2024
Open for submission throughout April/May 2024
Publication date: July 2024

This will be an Open House issue with two particular rules: 

First Rule: Maximum is ten lines of text. 

Example:
A free verse poem of ten lines could be 9 lines of poem plus title. A haibun could be 9 lines of text (prose and poem) plus title 

You could choose to send three 3-line haiku individually, or as a sequence (plus title)or nine 1-line haiku with a title or ten single-line standalone haiku etc...

Depending on which genre you choose, it can be one poem or several. 

Second rule: 
No mention of words such as: silence, silent, silently, still, stillness, reflection, reflected, old, young, alone, lonely, lone or other variations of the above.

This Open Season is open to a wide choice:

haiku 
tanka
haibun 

cherita
dua
gembun
duabun

sequences

free verse
formal poems 
prose poetry 

microfiction/nanofiction
short creative nonfiction


No more than ten lines of text for the whole submission.

Submission email address: panhaikureview@gmail.com

Alan Summers, PHR editor-in-chief
Karen Hoy, PHR Planet of Tanka guest editor

ISSUE 4 WINTER 2024
Issue 4 (Winter 2024) will be a haibun only issue (maximum 1,500 words)
The submission window will also be two months long.

The Pan Haiku Review
Issue two is all about 3-line haiku only, which must contain a seasonal word or phrase,
loosely based on the spirit of Japanese kigo, whether classic/traditional, modern, experimental, or speculative.

Deadline Tuesday 7th November 2023
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/

The GPS Haiku competition 2023 is open for entries!
1st September to 30th November 2023 (midnight UK time).

There is also an ACCESSIBILITY MENU (green button)
https://www.thegloucestershirepoetrysociety.co.uk/2023-haiku-competition

The Pan Haiku Review inaugural issue is now out:
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/

Contents

Introduction
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Essay: Articulation of the Single Line Haiku (expanded version)
Poems
Article: The Long Red Thread: an investigation by Michael Lindenhofer, with Alan Summers
Poems
Book Review:  Miles Deep In A Drum Solo by Cherie Hunter Day (unabridged version)
Poems
The blue key haiku feature: Headhunting Jo Balistreri
Poems
The blue key haiku feature: The Arc of Orrin PreJean
Poems
The blue key haiku feature: The Vertical One Line Haiku of John Wisdom
Poems
Article: Duostich: Navigating Unicorns by Alan Summers, with Michael Lindenhofer
Poems
Feature: Curating Area 17: Travelling the single line of haiku incl. Presence: A core part of haiku poetry (traverse, delivery/haitatsu)
Poems
Blo͞o Outpost: What's Next?

And of course an amazing array of 1-line and 2-line haiku as well as 1-line and 2-line haiku, plus artwork!


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Just out!

Slip-Realism across the single line of haiku by Alan Summers
https://www.whiptailjournal.com/lizard-lounge-visiting-contributors/slip-realism-across-the-single-line-of-haiku-by-alan-summers#/

The Pan Haiku Review:
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/

The Wise Owl literary magazine has produced this reading
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"Haiku with Alan Summers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tObqnUREDY


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Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue 5 (2023)

Details

This next issue of Blo͞o Outlier Journal will look at the tactics of the 'single line haiku'; the 'double line haiku'; and 'single or double line sequences'.

For the purpose of this issue, it can be senryu or haiku or that often occurring 'overlap' between the two.

max. Two 1-line haiku
max. Two 2-line haiku

max.
One haiku sequence no more than 8 one-line or 2-line haiku.
The first one acts/doubles as the title.

You can submit across all three 'sub-genres'

Sending work window opens
Saturday 25th February 2023
closes on Friday 31st March 2023.

CURRENTLY NO SUBMISSION EMAIL!

WHY?
The new and dedicated submission email will be revealed:
Friday 24th February 2023.

It's a lot to think about, so this is why the advance warning on all counts!

The subject line needs to have the correct spelling of Blo͞o in Blo͞o Outlier Journal,
plus how you wish your name to be published.

e.g.

Blo͞o Outlier Journal - Alan Summers

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Blo͞o Outlier Journal senryu special
New Year's Eve (Winter) 2022 issue
editors Alan Summers & Pippa Phillips

https://haikubasecamp.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/blo͞o-outlier-journal-senryu-special/

Babylon Sidedoor December 2022
ed. Alan Summers
https://haikubasecamp.wordpress.com

Contents

the parts that thou shouldst bear            Lorraine A Padden
dinner on the ground                     Lorraine Pester      
Patterns                           Deryn Pittar
Clarion Call                        Caroline Giles Banks
Wall St                           Caroline Giles Banks   
Blink                              Marilyn Humbert
Disappointment                        David Josephsohn 
Silence                           Lakshmi Iyer

artwork/photo©Alan Summers

A safe and friendly winter season.
Babylon Sidedoor is now on hiatus

Alan Summers
Christmas Eve, December 2022
https://haikubasecamp.wordpress.com

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Blo͞o Outlier Journal email for sending senryū
for the December 2022 issue! 
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https://tinyurl.com/blooutliersenryu

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Writing Aussie and Kiwi!
with Alan Summers

A friendly workshop for those from Australia, and New Zealand, who wish to embrace local names, terms, and roots a little further via haiku and related genres.

Alan will draw upon his years living in Australia and participation in the opening of the Katikati Haiku Pathway in New Zealand.

Alan will provide feedback on words, phrases, new poems and questions submitted by participants.

You can either submit your pieces for feedback to Alan beforehand, in advance of the event via this email address:

AussieKiwihaiku@gmail.com

Or . . .
live via the Zoom chat function in real time.

How to register for the conference:
https://sites.google.com/view/haikudownunder/register?authuser=0

Programme:
https://sites.google.com/view/haikudownunder/programme?authuser=0


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SHAHAI The art of three –
photography; haiku; typography RPS Royal Photographic Society 2022 PDF download:

https://haikubasecamp.wordpress.com/2022/09/08/shahai-the-art-of-three-photography-haiku-typography-rps-royal-photographic-society-2022-pdf-download/

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Now out!

Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue 3 
the natural history haiku edition 
Summer 2022
ed. Alan Summers   

dedicated to Gene Murtha

https://tinyurl.com/BlooOutlier3


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An Avon Ginko

A "ginko" is a traditional activity in Japan, and is the term for going on a walk, in a group, specifically to write poetry.

Come and write short poems with us, on a walk along the Chippenham Avon and its environs. There'll be plenty of time to stop, stare, and take notes along a maximum of 2.5 miles distance.

We'll then sit down outside (under outside cover according to weather) to finish three-line Japanese-style "haiku", or other short poems.

A hot or cold drink will be included in the ticket price. At all points there will be plenty of one-to-one guidance,  from published poets and experienced tutors Alan Summers and Karen Hoy of Call of the Page.

Seasons are important in Japanese poetry. We will be leading a summer, autumn, winter, and spring walking writing workshop.

You can book for the first one, a summer ginko, below. Anticipate dragonflies, swans, lily pads, and willow trees.

We have a free bursary place and a half-price place on each ginko. Please contact us for details of qualifying for these.

As well as affordability and income level we take into consideration social benefit, for instance if you are bereaved, or are requiring "social prescribing".

https://www.callofthepage.org/events/avon-ginko-workshops/