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This free-to-enter contest closes to submissions June 1st.

Submit up to 5 haiku as detailed on the Heron's Nest website at http://theheronsnest.com/awards/

I don't think it's still viable, although I don't know for sure.  I tried to visit the site a while ago and it served me a 404.

I missed this first time around, somehow.

How many submissions would you like to receive per poet?

For the first, it's probably just a wait-and-see thing.

I searched again now, and the first result is the hostei site.  All the rest are webs results.

Can you just delete your webs site altogether?  Almost none of the webs links work, mind you, so it might just be a matter of waiting it out here, too. :)

Just as an FYI, your old (webs) site is the first result in Google, and doesn't seem to be totally off-line: https://www.google.com/search?q=shamrock+haiku&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I got a blank screen when I clicked on the main page, but clicking on "submission guidelines" still got me into a working version of your old submission guidelines page.

It might be a good idea (if you haven't already) to just place a redirect notice on every page on the webs site.

Seánan just notified me that all the GTP books are back on the website: http://notesfromthegean.com/books.html

The British Library (that is: THE British Library, and not just a library which is British.) has a web archive of the site, but it's slim pickings.

Actually, though!  I looked again and found that it was archived in July of 2013.  Which isn't so bad...  When I checked before, it was only the main page that had been archived, and that was in 2011.

Here's the link if you want to click around: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130706220136/http://www.geantreepress.com/

Note that this is a "scraped" mirror of the site, so it's literally just a copy of the files.  Not all the content is there, and if it's not there it's gone.

None of the books are downloadable, for instance.

I checked the WayBack machine, which is like the BL thing but bigger, and it has a few different scrapes: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geantreepress.com/

Colin's Camaléo page is still active (this is what he used to build up the flipbooks), but unfortunately the only book still listed under Gean Tree Press is his own haibun: http://en.calameo.com/books/0015253703a8a8c57e97c

However, it does appear that Camaléo generates downloadable PDF files which can be downloaded from the site.  Finding somebody who downloaded the Carley book would probably be the easiest way of restoring it to existence...   I'd suggest asking widely on Facebook.

Edit: I asked on Facebook and it seems Carole MacRury has a copy of the PDF.  So if you can get in touch with her, you may be able to ask her to send you a copy of it. :)    (She commented that she had it on a public Facebook post on my wall, so I don't think I'm violating any sort of privacy by saying so.)

Sadly, it doesn't look like the title existed anywhere other than on the Gean Tree website. 

(I searched the wayback machine on the Internet Archive, and also the UK Web Archive from the British Library, but neither of them had the books page archived.)

Thanks, Scott. :)

Edit: Does Red Lights still exist?  MET Press seems to have gone out of business in December.

What are your favourites?  My tanka reading and submitting list is awfully slim. :)

Thanks, Alan.  I'll give Michael a buzz and see what he has to say on it, and possibly Fay, since I know both those fine poets. :)

Anybody have advice on how to secure the rights to translate Japanese works into English?

e.g.

At what point in the process should I contact the rights-holder?
Are there any form letters online I could use for this sort of thing?  My Japanese is probably not quite at the level where I could write an effective legal request from scratch... :)

Spark: A Creative Anthology is a mixed-genre poetry and prose magazine run by a writer friend of mine that's currently accepting submissions for its fourth issue.

The magazine is now accepting submissions of fiction and poetry for its fourth contest, for which the prompt is a single word: Winter.  The poetry guidelines specifically mention that haiku or tanka are welcome submissions.

QuotePoetry limits: We are looking for evocative imagery that paints a small story in a poem. A haiku or tanka has equal chance against a sonnet or epic. Poetry must be less than 150 lines.

Entry is free, with a top prize of $500 and a second place prize of $100 (among other prizes).

Full details here: http://sparkanthology.org/contests/four/

Nifty!

Pedestal Magazine, a mainstream online journal, will be open to poetry submissions from September 1-November 30.

Interested poets should submit up to 6 poems in a single file.  (No restrictions on length or theme or style; payment is $40 per accepted poem.)

Full information: http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/submitguidelines.php

Haiku will likely be a hard sell to this mainstream magazine, but sequences and exceptional tanka may (I suspect) fit the bill.