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NOTE CHANGES IN THE SUBMISSION GUIDES AND EMAILS FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Next Submission Date starts September the 10th!

Please don't forget to make your submission by emailing to us at: editor@failedhaiku.com for Senryu and related forms.

For Haibun and Haiga please send your submissions to: mikerehling@failedhaiku.com

For issue 104 there will be open submissions.

Submission Schedule:

Jan 10-25 – Target publication date: the first day of March

March 10-25 – Target publication date: the first day of May

May 10-25 – Target publication date: the first day of July

July 10-25 – Target publication date: the first day of September

September 10-25 – Target publication date: the first day of November

November 10-25 – Target publication date: the first day of January

What the Poet needs to do:

Include your name in the body of the email as you wish it to appear.
Please send up to 10 senryu-style poems per submission period.
Only TWO haiga or TWO haibun for each submission period.
Submit your work in the body of an email with NO attachments except haiga. GIF, JPEG, or PNG formats for images are allowed. We do not accept Word Docs here since Word contains code that can play with our formatting.
Your submitted work may have been previously published. We do NOT nominate for Best of the Net, Pushcart, and Touchstone contests. If you really feel that is a big deal then you may want to consider submitting elsewhere. You need not identify where they were published either since we do not do attributions.
Give us work you have judged to be a senryu. We promise to be open-minded and look at experimental approaches to all areas of the genre.
Accept that if your poem is not selected it is no big deal and does NOT mean that your work is not good. No single editor is the final arbiter of what is good or bad.
Proof your own work. If we spot something that seems 'off' we will contact you for permission before changing your poem.
Give us your best work, and feel free to be creative and experiment. We are NOT your grandpa's senryu journal!
What Failed Haiku will do:

Read and respond to your work. If we don't get back to you in ten days please feel free to contact us. An email can go astray, and mistakes get made. We don't want to miss seeing your work.
We will reproduce your work as written, BUT we cannot guarantee a particular typeface or perfect formatting due to the limitations of the editing tools and software used. If you ever have a concern, please contact us immediately.
Your submission to Failed Haiku is considered to be your permission for us to promote it on social media, and in any publications we may produce at a future date.
You are free to republish your work in other journals without any attribution to FailedHaiku since it is YOUR WORK but if you do mention FH we will be HAPPY.
Okay, that should do it. PLEASE don't forget to make your submission by email ONLY to:  editor@failedhaiku.com or mikerehling@failedhaiku.com for haiga and haibun.

NOTE: These guidelines affect only the 'full issues'. The 'invitation only' issues will almost all be PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED work, and none of the above applies to those issues. In the invite sent to you will be all the submission guidelines you need.

Kelly Moyer and Mike Rehling – Editors

HIA Haiku Contest

Announcement of the winning works: December 4th, 2024 The judges will comment on the winning works in the HI journal. The winning works will also appear in the HIA homepage.

Up to Two ⑵ haiku per entrant can be accepted for the entry Note: Works already published elsewhere are not accepted.

Please use the Application form which is inserted in HI journals.

Photocopied Application form can be accepted Please PRINT haiku clearly.

Entry forms should be sent to:

The Haiku International Association （HIA）
7th Floor Azuma Building
2-7 Ichigaya-Tamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0843 Japan
TEL: 03（5228）9004

Check HIA Home Page http://www.haiku-hia.com

Closing date: September 20th, 2024

Judges:   Toshio Kimura, David Burleigh

https://www.haiku-hia.com/contest_en/form.html

#87 – Spring 2025 – Haibun

Poetry: Our Spring 2025 issue will feature a Tribute to the Haibun. Basho invented the haibun form in the late 17th century, combining the concise elegance of haiku with more vernacular prose. More recently, the haibun form has become extremely popular within the English language haiku community, where the leaps between styles of writing are able to create profound moments of insight. This issue will explore creative ways contemporary haibun are being used. Please be sure to select the Haibun category and include a contributor's note about why you enjoy writing haibun.

Submissions via Submittable

Link

https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/291259/tribute-to-the-haibun

Overview:

Rattle publishes unsolicited poetry, translations, and book reviews.
General submissions are open year-round, always welcomed, and always free.

Rattle does not accept work that has been previously curated, in print or online—poems may be self-published on social media, blogs, or message boards, but cannot have been published in books, magazines, or similar collections open to the public. We want to be the first publisher to highlight the poems, but never want to discourage anyone from sharing their poems themselves. For more on this, read "Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art."

Rattle does not accept work that has been predominantly generated by artificial intelligence. Poetry is a tool for expanding the human spirit, which means poems should be written by humans. It is possible to use A.I. toward that aim in some cases, so if used A.I. to assist in the writing process, please explain in the notes to your submission.

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged.
Contributors to the print magazine receive $200 and a complimentary one-year subscription. Poems for "Online" categories receive $100.

All submissions are automatically considered for the annual Neil Postman Award for Metaphor, a $2,000 prize judged by the editors.

Separate from general and themed (and always free) submissions, we also offer the annual $15,000 Rattle Poetry Prize and the Rattle Chapbook Prize—for each of those, a submission fee of $25 includes a one-year subscription to the magazine.


VERY IMPORTANT:
Submissions cannot be revised after submission. Note that typos and minor changes never affect our decisions—proofreading is what editors are for. If you've made a significant mistake, use the internal messaging system to send a new file as an attachment.   

To withdraw a single poem from a submission of multiple poems, just log in, click on the submission, and send a message to let us know which you'd like removed. Do not withdraw the entire submission—if you do, the submission will no longer be active and we won't see it.

Don't include any contact information in the file(s) that you submit. Your name and contact info will be included in the Submittable fields, and this will make it easier for us to read fairly.

For more detailed information about rights, rules, privacy, and payments for publication, see our full guidelines.

NOTE: Please don't query to ask if we have a reply to your submission yet. If the status says "received" or "in-progress," then it's received and in-progress. We always go as fast as we can, but we're only human and the submission flow waxes and wanes, so response times vary considerably.

WHO
Anyone in the world, of any age or background, may participate (SCP Membership not required). Among members of the Society of Classical Poets, everyone including Advisory Board members may participate, if not involved in judging the contest. The winner, if not a U.S. resident, must have a PayPal account or a bank that accepts U.S. checks, in order to receive prize money.

IMPORTANT: By submitting haiku to this contest, the contestant declares that the poems are his or her own work, and that they were written after July 2023. Please submit using your first and last name, as we may find it difficult to distinguish between contestants who have similar first names.

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PRIZE
$100

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JUDGES
J. Thomas Rimer, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature, Theatre, and Art at the University of Pittsburgh; former chief of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress.

Margaret Coats, Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University; retired from a career of teaching literature, languages, and writing that included considerable work in homeschooling for her own family and others.

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WHEN
Now until September 15, 2024, 6 pm EST (New York time).  Results to be announced September 29, 2024.

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WHERE
Post your entries in the Comments below.

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WHAT
Each competitor may submit up to three haiku of traditional form: three lines per poem with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second, and 5 in the third. Entrants are recommended to conform to other traditional haiku requirements outlined HERE.

If you want coaching on haiku features, please read the examples and explanation before submitting your entries. Once entries are posted, they can be revised or withdrawn ONLY by making another Comment. This is permitted until the competition closes, but do take reasonable care to complete work to your satisfaction before you enter it. Please do not use the Comment area as your scratch pad. That is discourteous to other competitors, to interested readers, and to the judge and will disqualify you.

Entries that do not meet basic traditional haiku requirements may be deleted. Anyone who submits more than three entries will have ALL his or her entries disqualified, unless excess entries are clearly withdrawn by a later Comment.

https://classicalpoets.org/2024/07/31/haiku-competition-2024/

Celebrating the 21st anniversary of the Porad Award in 2024!

Haiku Northwest is pleased to announce its 21st annual Porad Haiku Award. The contest is named for Francine Porad, founder of Haiku Northwest, former president of the Haiku Society of America, and editor for eight years of Brussels Sprout, an international journal of haiku and art. We welcome your haiku submissions!

Deadline: Submissions through the online form or by email open on July 15, 2024, and must be received by August 31, 2024.

Eligibility: Open to all, members and nonmembers alike, except Haiku Northwest officers, the contest coordinator, and judge.

Prizes: $100 for first prize, $50 for second prize, and $25 for third prize, plus honorable mentions. Poems will also be published on the Haiku Northwest website (see past Porad Award Winners). Winners will be announced at Haiku Northwest's annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway, to be held October 24–27, 2024.

Adjudication: Our 2024 judge is Alan S. Bridges. Alan has been writing haiku since 2008. His poems have been featured in numerous journals and anthologies and have won a variety of contests. He has also judged haiku contests and published several haiku collections.

Entry Fees: $5.00 for one entry (for up to five haiku, one entry per person), in U.S. funds only. Please pay via PayPal (preferred) or by postal mail (contact the contest coordinator, address below, if you need to pay by postal mail).

PayPal Payment (preferred): To pay by PayPal, please use the following PayPal button. The entry fee is $5.00 for up to five haiku per entry (one entry per person). Note that PayPal charges a fee for online payments, which Haiku Northwest is absorbing. If you wish to help offset these fees, please include an extra dollar or more with your payment (choose one of the three payment options below). You should receive a transaction or confirmation number when you make your PayPal payment. Please include that number with your submission, whether using the online submission form or by email (see below). Then submit your poems (see "Submissions" below).

Note: Choose one of the three payment options first by selecting the drop-down arrow and then select Pay Now. On a phone or tablet, you may need to use scroll bars to display parts of the following PayPal button (such as the drop-down arrow).

Postal Payment: Use this option only if you are not able to use PayPal. Please send checks/money orders made payable to "Haiku Northwest" or cash in U.S. dollars (at your own risk). Mail to the contest coordinator at the following address:

Porad Haiku Award
c/o Angela Terry
822 E. Fir Street
Sequim, WA 98382 USA

Submissions: Poems submitted must be previously unpublished. Poems posted on public Facebook pages, blogs, or other websites are not eligible for submission. By submitting, you assert that your entries are previously unpublished and are solely your own original creations. If you submit using the online submission form, please do NOT also email any submissions—use one submission method only (it's okay for payments to come separately, though, if you can't pay via PayPal).

Online Form Submissions (preferred): Before submitting, please pay the entry fee of $5 by PayPal (above) for up to five haiku, and make a note of your transaction/confirmation number. Then go to our online submission form and enter your name, address, email, phone number, PayPal confirmation number (if paying by PayPal), and up to five poems.

Email Submissions: We strongly prefer that you submit using our online submission form, but if it does not work for you, you may submit by email. When submitting by email, please type or paste your previously unpublished haiku in the body of the message (no attached files) and write "Porad Award Entries—[your name]" in the subject line. Include your name, address, email address, phone number, and method/date of payment above your haiku (include your PayPal transaction or confirmation number if PayPal provides one when you made your payment; please also indicate if you included any extra money to offset PayPal charges). If you are concerned about any special formatting characteristics, you may add a brief note after each applicable poem. Please do not number your poems, and leave one blank line between the poems. Send by August 31, 2024 to the contest coordinator, Angela Terry, at amterry9@gmail.com

https://www.haikunorthwest.org/2024-events/2024-porad-award

The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems are bestowed annually on poems that represent noteworthy additions to English-language haiku and senryu in the estimation of a distinguished panel. The Awards are open to any English-language haiku or senryu first published in the current calendar year.

What Is The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Poems?

The Haiku Foundation, as part of its mission to expand possibilities for English-language haiku, created the Touchstone Awards Series in 2010 for individual haiku and senryu (The Touchstone Award for Individual Poems) and books (The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award). In 2022, the Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun was added to recognize individual haibun.

All awards seek to reward excellence and innovation each calendar year. Results are determined through a year-long nomination and selection process and are released the following year on April 17, International Haiku Poetry Day. Award recipients are selected by independent panels comprised of authorities in the field.

How Are Panel Members Chosen?

The panel consists of five members who are chosen by the Touchstone Awards Committee. The Committee chooses panel members who have demonstrated expertise in the haiku and senryu genres.

How Are Haiku Nominated?

Throughout the year, the Coordinator for the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems solicits nominations of haiku and senryu from journal editors and contest organizers. In addition, any individual may nominate two poems (haiku or senryu), one of which may be their own. For this award, publication is constituted by, but not limited to, first appearance in a juried or edited public venue such as a book, journal, online site, or contest. The Awards Committee reserves the right to determine whether a poem meets this criterion.

Nominations for the current year will open shortly after the previous year's awards have been announced. Poems written by the Coordinator of the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems or any of its panelists are ineligible for nomination during their terms of service.

How Are the Winning Haiku Selected?

In the first round, the five panel members consider the entire anonymous roster and nominate ten of the most exceptional poems of their choosing. These become the Long List. In the second round, the panel discusses the merits of the long-listed poems and ranks their top selections, of which the highest-scoring poems become the Short List. In the final round, the panel discusses the merits of the short-listed poems and ranks their top selections from the Short List, of which the 5 highest-scoring poems are recognized with Touchstone Awards. Once the awarded poems have been determined, the panel members write commentaries for each. Authors and citations for winning poems are revealed to the judges along with the public.

How to Submit

The deadline for the latest Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems is December 31st of each calendar year.

You may nominate no more than two poems, only one of which may be (but does not have to be) your own work. Nominated poems must be submitted with our entry form.

Nominated poems must be submitted with our entry form.

Full details and entry form here:

https://thehaikufoundation.org/open-nominate-poems-for-the-2024-touchstone-award/?

Link to submissions page
https://tinywords.com/submit/

https://tricycle.org/haiku/

5-7-5 haiku

Guidelines for submission

https://samidare.jp/basho/box/16th%20y%20basho%20english%20haiku%20contest-guidelines%20for%20submission.pdf

https://morioka-haiku.jp/en/rule/

https://kusamakura-haiku.jp/boshu/index_e.html

Please submit in January for the spring issue and in July for the fall issue.
Thanks very much for your interest. And for writing!
 
We accept publications via a Google Form.

We only publish haiku and senyru. If accepted, we strive to present your work in a way that will make you proud. Our print journal is 5.5 x 6 inches, on heavy gloss paper and with much use of color.  No more than two haiku appear on a page. Our issues present 44 poems. Here is a video by our editor Michael Dylan Welch with samples from our first issue, which will give you an idea of the kind of work we publish. Please have a look before submitting so you will know what we publish. In each issue, we feature a "best of issue" poem which wins the author a free copy of the issue, a 1-year subscription, and publication of 10 of their poems in our "Ten haiku by..." online chapbooks.
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We only consider previously unpublished haiku or senryu. However, We consider haiku posted on your own social media accounts.
We do not adhere to the 5/7/5 rule. At all. We are open to 1, 2, & 3 lines (and other configurations.)
We do not publish poems that include the phrase "first frost."
No titles with poems, please.
Submit up to 3 haiku or senryu during a reading period.
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We accept submissions in January for the Spring issue and July for the Fall issue.
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Our editors intend to notify all submitters of our decision within 6 weeks after the close of a submission period. We apologize in advance for the wait. We routinely get 650-750 poems per submission period.

too long to respond
many haiku in inbox
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We are using Google Forms to collect and work with submissions. You will receive an email copy of your submission. In the copy you receive, formatting (line breaks) will not appear. However formatting is retained in the submission that we have.
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Dale Wisely, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco,
Michael Dylan Welch, Eric Burke

https://www.firstfrostpoetry.com/submit?

NB: Submissions accepted via Submittable only

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Poetry that is accessible, prose that is poetic, and artwork of the natural world that will wow us.

We're looking for work that is nuanced, raw, and imagistic with strong elements of the natural world or hints to the human-nature relationship. We tend to favor work that is unexpected, evocative, yet subtle, with a strong sense of place and strong imagery.

We prefer shorter works that use brevity to its advantage, with simple formatting and uncomplicated language.

Please keep in mind the seasonal nature of the issue you're submitting to.

Poetry & Prose

We prefer free-verse poetry and prose that is accessible to readers, is straightforward, and avoids fancy language.

We opt for the less traditional, Westernized style of haiku and tanka that does not follow strict syllable structures, while honoring the haiku aesthetic and characteristics.

We do not publish experimental work, and very rarely do we publish poems longer than one page.

Please edit your work before submitting. While typos aren't enough to automatically reject your work, it is important to submit your final, edited piece(s). Upon acceptance, we may suggest minor edits to your work.

Visual Art

When it comes to art, we like both the realistic and the abstract—think out-of-focus photography, minimalism, intentional camera movement, and impressionistic smears of colors on a canvas. We love photographs of nature, be it landscapes, animals, or otherwise.

What We're NOT Looking For

We like contemporary, but we shy away from human elements, like work that references technology—like your iPhone or Tinder or TikTok.

We will not publish profanity, discriminatory work of any kind, political pieces, or work that is fantastical in nature or of the horror genre. We steer away from work that is entirely anthropocentric. We don't like personification, unless done subtly and skillfully.

We will not accept works created by robots, such as those created using AI technology like ChatGPT or similar means. Your work must be wholly created by you.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Poetry – Up to 5 poems (or up to 10 haiku, tanka, or micropoetry 5 lines or less). Please include all poems in one document.
Prose – No more than 2 pieces, 500 words maximum per piece.
Artwork & Photos – Up to 8 works, high resolution (300dpi). Be sure that the titles of your artwork are included in the file name.

READING PERIODS

Spring issue – December 1st - February 1st, published in March
Summer issue – March 1st - May 1st, published in June
Fall issue – June 1st - August 1st, published in September
Winter issue – September 1st - November 1st, published in December
Submissions. We only consider submissions sent through our online submission manager (Submittable). Emailed submissions will not be considered. Submissions must be accompanied by a brief 50 to 100 word third-person bio. Poetry and prose submissions should be sent in a single document (.doc or .docx formats preferred). Art must be high resolution (300dpi, .jpg or .jpeg formats preferred). Response time varies depending on where we are in our review cycle, but please allow up to three months for a response. Before submitting, please see our past issues for the type of work we publish.

Simultaneous Submissions & Withdrawals. We accept simultaneous submissions, but we must be immediately notified if a piece is accepted elsewhere. If you wish to withdraw one or several pieces from your submission, please email us directly with the titles of the work(s) you are withdrawing. If you wish to withdraw your entire submission, please use Submittable's "Withdraw" option.

Previously Published Work. We will not accept work previously published in an online or print magazine. We do not consider work posted to a blog, social media account, or personal website as published.

Publishing Rights. We ask for first time worldwide rights for accepted pieces. Following publication, all rights revert back to the contributor. Please note that your work first appeared in Humana Obscura if it is reprinted elsewhere on the web or in print. By submitting to Humana Obscura, you affirm that you are the sole owner of the work and that the work does not infringe upon the copyright or other rights of anyone. By submitting, you grant permission to the publisher to share the published material(s), and in some cases the contributors' name, image, or likeness, in the publication as well as on the publisher's digital platforms, including through digital mail and on its website and social media accounts, for the sole purpose of promoting the work and/or the creator.

Payment. At this time, we are not able to offer payment to our contributors for published works; however, we frequently and vigorously promote our writers/artists and their work (both within Humana Obscura as well as outside our magazine), so be sure to subscribe to our magazine and connect with us on X (@humanaobscura), Instagram (@humanaobscura), and Facebook.

Please do not submit more than once per genre per reading period. You may, however, submit to more than one genre within one reading period. Additional submissions will not be read. Submissions received outside of our reading period will not be read.

INTERVIEW SERIES (Beginning January 1st, 2024)
Starting in January, we will choose 1 to 2 contributors for the interview series through an application process based on several questions. In order to be considered for an interview, you must submit work to the current issue. Only applications sent via Submittable will be considered.

ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY (2024, Theme: "Blue")
Humana Obscura is open to submissions of poetry and art year-round for it's annual anthology, published in January and featuring work received during the previous year. Our first anthology will be released in January of 2025. Our first anthology will focus on a theme of "blue," and however you interpret it—as the sky, the ocean, the shade of a particular flower, or an emotion. In keeping with this theme, a percentage of submission fees will be donated to Ocean Conservancy.

Please send any inquiries to editor[at]humanaobscura[dot]com

https://www.humanaobscura.com/submit?

The Haibun Journal

The Haibun Journal, launched in Ireland April 10th 2019, is a print journal specialising in the haibun literary form. We would appreciate your support with submissions of work and/or purchase of the journal which will appear in April and October each year.

The editors are: Sean O'Connor (Editor), Amanda Bell, Kim Richardson and Paul Bregazzi (Assistant Editors).

To submit haibun:

Submit up to three haibun per issue.

Send work not under consideration elsewhere.

If your submission contains haiku already published please indicate that with the publication details.

Submit work for the April issue during the month of January and during July for the October issue.

Please state in the subject line: THJ, your name, where you live and the date.

Example: THJ, Mary Smith, Cork, Ireland, 01/02/2019.

Please place the work in the body of the email and do not send attachments – they will not be opened.

Email to: thehaibunjournal@gmail.com

Sadly, we are not funded and cannot pay authors and there are no contributor copies.

We are not accepting tanka prose or prose with yongyoshi (four line poems) at this time.

We will consider articles on haibun or haiku (but no submissions of individual haiku). If you would like to submit an article please email the subject of your article and its word count and we will be in touch with you if we wish to consider it.

There will be no restrictions of the length of submissions of haibun.

The Journal has about 60 printed pages, is of a high production standard, printed in Ireland and posted internationally.

The Haibun Journal will have first rights so future publishers are required to credit The Haibun Journal for previously unpublished work it puts into print.

The Haibun Journal retains the right to reprint, electronically or in print, any original work it first publishes with the author being credited accordingly.

Correspondence between the editors and any party are confidential and may not be reproduced without the agreement of the editors.

To buy:

A copy of The Haibun Journal costs Euro 10 each (excluding P & P). To buy a posted copy within Ireland costs Euro 13, anywhere in Europe costs Euro 15 and anywhere else is Euro 19.

Please use Paypal for payments using the email address: mail@seanmusic.com  and ensure you select payment in Euro. Thank you.

It is our mission to promote the haibun form and we look forward to hearing from you.

Warm regards,

Sean O'Connor, Editor of The Haibun Journal.

http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/contests/echapbook_awards/guidelines.htm?

78th Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest

The Deadline　　wednesday, July 31, 2024　 　　
How to Apply
Please apply by e-mail.
Please write your haiku , your name, postal address, and e-mail address .

A maximum of 10 haikus per person are allowed.

We only accept unpublished self-made haikus.

E-mail　　eigo@basho-bp.jp

Judge　　Hidetake Kawaraji

Entry fee　　Free

Announcement of Prizewinners
We will send a certificate to the winners.
Prizewinners will be announced at a ceremony during the Basho festival in

Iga city Mie Japan on October 12, as well as on website of the competition sponsors（https://www.basho-bp.jp/）.

We will properly manage your personal information which you have registered
in your entries.

Secretariat　　Basho Kenshokai
(Ueno Marunouchi 117-13,Iga city, Mie 518-0873 Japan）

Organized by Iga City, Basho Kenshokai

https://www.basho-bp.jp/en/?p=167

 

Call for International Holiday & Food Haiku

Allyson Whipple, creator of The Culinary Saijiki, is seeking haiku and senryu related to food and holidays around the world. Our holidays are grounded in the seasons, and food (or fasting!) is an essential component!

Allyson is seeing haiku/senryu addressing holidays from all over the world. Of course, the haiku/senryu should also connect to food in a clear way. Previously published work is welcome, as well as poems in languages other than English.

You can view the call for submissions and submission form here:
https://forms.gle/Zshm4o6HC5ArsPwv7

Details
Haiku and senryu in one, two, or three lines are welcome.
Haiku and senryu must connect to both a holiday and foods consumed and prepared for that holiday.
I welcome haiku and senryu in languages other than English. If possible, please provide an English translation.
If someone other than you translated your work into English, please credit them in your submission.
Please fill out the form once per haiku/senryu.
There is currently no limit on the number of times you can submit.
Previously published haiku and senryu are welcome; please remember to credit the prior publication.
I have not yet set a publication date for The Culinary Saijiki manuscript. I am currently aiming for late 2025, but this is subject to change.
There is currently no submission deadline; haiku and senryu are accepted on a rolling basis.
Submission does not guarantee publication; I will let you know if your work has been selected for inclusion, and return unselected poems to you.

A call for haiku on the subject of 'Tea'

Denise Fontaine-Pincince is seeking submissions of haiku and senryu for a TEA anthology to be published as a print book. Send up to three of your best published or unpublished TEA related poems, as a Word.doc attachment with name, home address, and email in the upper right corner, to dcfontaine@yahoo.com, with 'TEA ANTHOLOGY' in the Subject line.

Deadline for submission is August 1st with a response time of six to eight weeks.

Closing 30th June

Contest theme: God's creation--nature, people, animals, earth, the heavens and anything God created

What to submit: Up to three of your best, unpublished haiku, any form (1,2,3 or 4 lines, any syllable count, 5-7-5, and concrete)

Where to submit: wotspoems@gmail.com with the subject line "WoTS Haiku Contest"
Include your full name and country of residence in the email.

Prizes: First place, second place, and third place winners will win poetry books ("The Poodle Wears a Pink Tutu" and "Neon Snow" by Susan Beth Furst)

Judge: Blind judging by Christine L. Villa, editor of Frameless Sky

NOTE: All winning haiku will be published on WoTS in a special July issue (July 15)

Thanks to Theresa Cancro for the following information posted on Inkstone Poetry Forum.

Submission guideline details for the three current Tanka Society of America publications/ features: Ribbons (the official print journal of TSA), Tanka Hangout (members-only feature within Ribbons), and Laurels (the online journal of members' work). Note that the submission deadline for the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of all of these is June 30, 2024.

Tanka Society of America

I. Ribbons Submission Guidelines

Submissions to Ribbons, the official Tanka Society of America journal, are open to TSA members and nonmembers alike. Your submissions must not be under consideration elsewhere, submitted to any contest, or previously published anywhere at any time, including online. However, tanka posted to online workshop lists or on Facebook are permissible. All rights revert to authors upon publication, except that the TSA reserves the right to reprint content from its publications on TSA social media sites and its website.

Ribbons seeks fresh material of the highest standard to present to our readers. Any tanka with a sensibility that distinguishes the form will be considered. Therefore, we welcome different syllable counts, varying individual styles and techniques, and are open to diverse yet appropriate subject material. We also welcome essays that offer fresh insights and information. As our space for essays and interviews is limited, please query the editor with a summary before writing your essay in full.

We also publish a twice-yearly members-only online journal, Laurels, which requires separate submissions. (Guidelines for Laurels are provided below.)

Submission Deadlines
Ribbons submission deadlines are in-hand no later than the following dates:

January 31: Spring/Summer issue
June 30: Fall/Winter issue

The Ribbons editors will respond to all submissions within one month of each submission deadline.

Tanka
For each issue, you are welcome to submit either up to ten original, unpublished tanka or two tanka sequences (not more than six tanka per sequence) or one tanka sequence and up to five tanka. From among these, one individual tanka or a sequence may be selected. Email submissions are preferred (please include all text in the body of each email; no attached files, please, unless requested). Please submit to: ribbonseditor@gmail.com with the subject heading "Ribbons Submissions." You can also submit by postal mail:

Susan Weaver
Ribbons Editor
127 N. 10th St.
Allentown, PA 18102 USA

Tanka Prose
Please send one tanka prose piece to Liz Lanigan, our tanka prose editor, at tankaproseeditor@gmail.com. Please put "Ribbons Submission" in the subject line. The prose should not exceed 300 words. The number of tanka is flexible (within reason and when in service to the whole). Please include a creative title.

While submissions by email are preferred, you may also submit tanka prose by postal mail:

Liz Lanigan
Ribbons Tanka Prose Editor
38 McClure Street
EVATT ACT 2617, Australia

Book Reviews
Please query Ribbons editor Susan Weaver (at ribbonseditor@gmail.com or at the following postal address), before sending your book for review:

Susan Weaver
Ribbons Editor
127 N. 10th St.
Allentown, PA 18102 USA

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II. Tanka Hangout - Members-only feature in Ribbons, edited by Ken Slaughter

TSA members are invited to send one original, unpublished tanka on the assigned prompt for each edition of the Tanka Hangout (NOTE: The prompt for the Fall/Winter 2024 issue is "poetry" -- see further info about the prompt below). Restrictions are few, and almost any treatment of the tanka form is acceptable, but please submit your very best effort. The tanka will be read for thematic content, the depth and layering of meaning (often called "dreaming room"), vivid imagery, and suggested emotion. Any comments that accompany your submission may also be considered, in part or in full, for publication, but please be sure your tanka does not rely on these comments.

Send your single tanka submission, in the body of an email, to Ken Slaughter at tsahangout@outlook.com with the subject heading "Tanka Hangout." He will acknowledge receipt of all email submissions, and if your poem is selected for publication in Tanka Hangout, he will notify you within a month after the submission deadline.

We prefer email submissions, but you may also submit by postal mail:

Ken Slaughter, Tanka Hangout Editor
24 Briarwood Circle
Worcester, MA 01606 USA

Please, include your full name as you wish it to appear beneath the poem, followed by your town or city of residence and its location (state/province and country).

In-hand submission deadlines are as follows:

January 31: Spring/Summer issue
June 30: Fall/Winter issue

Member's Choice Tanka
In each issue, the Tanka Hangout honors one poet with the Member's Choice Tanka award of $25, chosen from tanka published in the previous issue. The winner is invited to select the next Member's Choice Tanka and commend another two or three, offering comments on the tanka and the reasons for choosing them.

Prompt
Each edition of Tanka Hangout seeks tanka inspired by a prompt, presented here and in Ribbons.

For the Fall/Winter 2024 issue
(submissions due by June 30, 2024)

Prompt -- Poetry: If you love writing about poetry, and about the process of writing, this prompt is for you. Think about your own creative journey, or about poems written by others. You might write a tanka about a poetic song or even about a songwriter, such as Bob Dylan.


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III. Laurels Submission Guidelines

Laurels is the twice-yearly online publication of the Tanka Society of America, launched in 2024, for members only (nonmembers and members are welcome to submit to our print publication, Ribbons). Each issue of Laurels focuses on an announced theme, with members serving as guest editors. Laurels is for individual tanka only, and does not include sequences, tanka prose, essays, or reviews, and will accept no more than one poem per member per issue. We invite members to submit up to three unpublished tanka for each issue. Please, no simultaneous or multiple submissions (submit only once).


Laurels Submission Deadlines
Laurels submission deadlines are in-hand no later than the following dates:

January 31
June 30

Each Laurels guest editor will typically respond to all submissions within one month of each submission deadline.

Laurels #2 Submission Guidelines for members only
Guest editor: Michael Ketchek

Theme: Kyōka

Don't be upset if you've no idea what kyōka means. I didn't till a short while ago. As I found out, I've been writing them for years. As defined by the website Poem Analysis, "Kyōka is a traditional Japanese poetic form that emerged in the 15th century. It is a playful and humorous variation of the tanka." Kyōka literally means "mad" or "crazy poem." It often parodies, puns, or mixes high language with everyday words and subject matter. Here are two kyōka examples:


the limp windsock
reminds him
of the side effects
of taking prozac
but who cares

Michael Ketchek


Hamlet at the Globe
then dinner at the George
where Shakespeare drank
the only question is
to beer or not to beer

Charles Harmon


Submissions (TSA members only): Please submit by June 30, 2024 using our online submission form. The form should work correctly for nearly everyone, but if it does not work for you, please try accessing it using a different device. If it still does not work correctly for you, please inquire with Michael Ketchek at mketchek@frontier.com.

Link to the online submission form for Laurels #2:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... w/viewform