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The Betty Drevniok Award http://www.haikucanada.org/contests/drevniok.php?page=drevniok&lang=en

Haiku Canada established this annual competition in memory of Betty Drevniok, past president of the society. With the exception of members of the executive of Haiku Canada, the contest is open to everyone, including regional coordinators of Haiku Canada.

The 2024 Annual Betty Drevniok Award
There is no entry fee. Call opens December 15, 2023.

Eligibility
1. The contest is international and open to the public.
2. Haiku must be in English, and not previously published. Publication is defined as an appearance in any printed or electronic book, magazine, or journal (sold or given away) or publicly visible on any website or electronic social media (including but not limited to blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc). If it is discovered that a poem has been published before, it will be disqualified, even after the results have been announced.
3. Haiku must be authored by the poet submitting and not currently submitted elsewhere either for publication or to any other contest.
4. Members of the Haiku Canada executive are not eligible, but regional coordinators may enter.

Submission Procedure
1. Go to • the google form
2. Fill in the your contact information and your name and location as you would want it to appear.
3. Write your haiku, one per field. Maximum 3.
4. Please do not number your haiku and do not use coloured fonts.
5. Do it before the deadline: February 28, 2024.

Results
1. Results will be announced at Haiku Canada Weekend in May 2024, and will be posted on the Haiku Canada website by July 1.
2. The finalist poems will be presented on a broadsheet at Haiku Canada Weekend, with the finalists receiving paper copies.
3. Rights to the poems revert to the poet after the contest results have been announced.
4. Haiku Canada reserves the right to republish selected haiku in print, on the Haiku Canada website, and on other Haiku Canada social media at any time.

If you do not have access to email, snail mail your submission to the contest coordinator:
Pearl Pirie
175 Chemin du Domaine
Alcove, QC J0X 1A0
Submissions to be in hand by the deadline.

http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/2023/10/call-for-entries-bhs-awards-2023/

Call for Entries BHS Awards 2023
 

THE BRITISH HAIKU SOCIETY AWARDS 2023
Comprising three categories: Haiku, Tanka and Haibun

The Competition is OPEN to both members and non-members of the society from all over the world.

Rules of the BHS Haiku, Tanka and Haibun Awards:

1. Submissions must be only in English, unpublished and not concurrently entered for any other competition, and remain unpublished until the results are declared. Submissions should NOT appear in any print or online publication, social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or forums as the competition is anonymous. There is no limit on the number of submissions per competitor.

2. Deadline: in the administrator's e-mail by 31 January 2024.

3. Entry procedures:
Please note that all UK and non UK entries should be sent by e-mail to: bhsawardsadmin@fastmail.co.uk If you don't have an e-mail, please contact the BHS Administrator Iliyana Stoyanova for more details.

For all three categories – send your entry in the body of the e-mail, NO attachments.

Remember to include your name, address and phone number. All appropriate fees to be paid via PayPal (through the BHS website). All PayPal transactions are subject to the PayPal Privacy Policy. Please include the PayPal payment Ref. No. with your submission.

Please note the PayPal payment should be made in £ sterling. Same fees apply for all UK and non-UK entries. See the table below.

4. Fees:
Payments by PayPal. The minimum entry fee for up to 3 haiku is £5.50. The fee for tanka or haibun works the same as for haiku. You will need to make a SEPARATE PAYMENT for each category you wish to enter (i.e. no mixing for one fee).

If you are uncertain about the payment options or have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact the BHS Administrator at the e-mail above.

If you wish to submit haiku, tanka or haibun, please use the form on the website:

Link to site: http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/2023/10/call-for-entries-bhs-awards-2023/

5. No current trustee of the British Haiku Society or any of the current judges is eligible to enter.

6. Adjudication process:
BHS will appoint two judges for haiku, two for tanka and one for haibun. Each judge sees all entries submitted in the category assigned to him/her, and without consulting, makes his/her independent choice of best haiku, tanka or haibun – and also chooses one runner-up and up to 3 'honourable mentions'. Their choices will be final and no correspondence can be entered into about the results. It is possible for an entrant to win more than one prize.

The Judges for the 2023 British Haiku Society Awards are:

Haiku – Caroline Skanne (UK) and Klaus-Dieter Wirth (Germany)
Tanka – David Terelinck (Australia) and Bryan Rickert (USA)
Haibun – Kala Ramesh (India)

7. Prizes:
For haiku, prizes of £125 will be awarded to each of the two best and £50 to each of two runners-up.
For tanka, prizes of £125 will be awarded to each of the two best and £50 to each of two runners-up.
For haibun, prize of £125 will be awarded to one winner and £50 to one runner-up.

8. Publication of results:
As soon as results are known and the winners are notified, the results will be published on the BHS website at www.britishhaikusociety.org.uk. All haiku, tanka and haibun selected for awards, along with the judges' reports, will be published in the May 2024 issue of the BHS journal, Blithe Spirit. All winners, runners-up and 'honourable mentions' will receive BHS Awards certificates.

9. For early notification of results, please provide a valid e-mail.

10. Copyright reverts to authors after publication in the BHS journal, Blithe Spirit, but entry for any category signifies agreement to your work being published digitally by the BHS or copied for archival purposes (for example, by the British Library or the Poetry Library, London).

Iliyana Stoyanova
BHS Awards Administrator

Please note that the Setouchi-Matsuyama Photo Haiku Contest, which normally closes about the middle of January, is taking a break in 2024 to mark the passing of a main judge of one of the Japanese sections.

Thanks to Haiku NewZ for sharing the above information. Haiku NewZ is a web newsletter and resource for haiku poets and enthusiasts based in New Zealand and around the world. https://poetrysociety.org.nz/affiliates/haiku-nz/

https://www.theunitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/2022/11/aha-haiku-contest-annual-hortensia.html?m=1

The 1st "aha" (Annual Hortensia Anderson) Haiku Contest held in 2013 was created to honor the memory of a well-known and respected New York-based haiku poet, Hortensia Anderson.

Deadline: open 1 January 2022 to 31 January 2022; results posted on this website in March 2022.

Sponsor: the United Haiku and Tanka Society.

Coordinator: Marilyn Humbert, Australia.
Adjudication: Terrie Jacks, USA.

Eligibility: Open to everyone worldwide.
Awards: This contest is FREE for up to 10 entries, all rights remain with the haiku poets. Printable Certificates will be emailed to winners for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Place, and one HM.

Submissions: Entries must be the original work of the author, be unpublished and never posted publicly anywhere, and not under consideration elsewhere for the entire time period it takes to complete the judging. This contest is un-themed, open to all age groups worldwide, any season is acceptable, and there is no specific syllable requirement with the exception of a short, long, short rhythm written in 3 lines of text. Entries that do not follow these guidelines will not be considered, read carefully.

Entry Fee: None, it's FREE

Guidelines: Use the subject heading (aha entry), and type each individual haiku only, (no senryu) in the body of your email. Include your name, country, and email contact. Please type in this email:
mhumbert1953 at gmail dot com (no political or inappropriate material will be considered by the staff).

From Marilyn: "all entrants will be advised that I have received their entry, but if you haven't heard from me within 7 days, please re-send."

Notification: ONLY the winners will be notified and ONLY via email, (and if you have no email address available, (please provide a proxy email address.) If you don't hear anything back by 1 March 2022, your entries are automatically free to submit elsewhere.

Publication: Winners' will be posted in March 2022 on the UHTS website with Judge's commentary.

Thank you for your participation to honor the memory of a wonderful person who contributed so much of herself to the haiku community over the years, Rest in Peace Hortensia.

spring thunder –
the newspaper shakes
in my hands

Maya Lyubenova

Submission Guidelines

Rules:
The contest is open to everyone but the members of the Jury, the contest coordinator, and their relatives.
The submitted haiku must be original work of the author, unpublished (online or in a printed edition) and not shared on any social media (including closed/private groups).
Poets may submit in English or in Bulgarian.

Theme:
No theme

Number of haiku:
Each poet may submit no more than 2 haiku.

Submission period:
January 1, 2024 – February 28, 2024

Jury:
Alan Peat
Iliyana Stoyanova
Vessislava Savova

Coordinator:
Tzetzka Ilieva

*Email for submission:
shoshin.contest@gmail.com

Please write your poems, name, and country of origin in the body of the email. Attachments will not be opened.

Results:
The names of the winners, the winning haiku, and their translations in Bulgarian will be announced by April 17, 2024.

Entry fees
The entry fees for The Haiku Calendar Competition are:

£10/US $15 for up to 4 haiku;

£20/US $30 for up to 12 haiku.

Deadline
Entries should be emailed or postmarked by January 31, 2024.

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Awards
£400/US $600 total prize money.

12 haiku will be selected as monthly winners and will be published prominently in The Haiku Calendar 2025. The prize money will be divided equally between the 12 winners. 40 additional haiku will be selected as runners-up and these will also be published in the calendar.

Entrants may win more than one prize.

Your work
Haiku may be free-form or 5-7-5 and must be the original work of the entrant.

Haiku may be published or unpublished, though haiku previously published by Snapshot Press, or accepted for a publication forthcoming from the press, are not eligible.

Any number of haiku may be entered.

Entries may be sent by email or post.

Full details from website: http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/contests/thcc/entry_guidelines.htm

Martin Lucas Haiku Award
Cash prizes totalling £200. Winning and commended poems will be published in Haiku Presence. Judge is Jim Cheesing.
Closes: January 31.
Cost: £5 for up to 5 haiku and £1 per haiku thereafter.

FULL DETAILS COPIED FROM PRESENCE JOURNAL WEBSITE

Martin Lucas Haiku Award 2023

1st prize £100
2nd prize £50
2x 3rd prizes £25

Publication of winning and commended poems in Presence 78.

Judge: Jim Cheesing

Entry fee: £5 for up to 5 haiku. Additional haiku at £1 per haiku.

Paid by: £ cheque made out to "Presence Magazine" or by PayPal using the button below.

The prize will be paid by cheque or by PayPal in pounds sterling with bank or exchange charges to be paid by the prize winner.

Format: For postal entries, please submit all haiku on one sheet of paper, with your name and address included, and also a copy of the same sheet without your name and address. Postal entries should be sent to:

Chris Boultwood, 6 King Street, Chester CH1 2AH, England, UK

Entries by email should be sent to haikupresence@gmail.com with the subject line 'Martin Lucas Haiku Award'. Email entries and name and address details may be included in the body of the email.

All entries should be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.

Deadline (in hand): 31 January 2024

Overseas entrants are encouraged to pay with a credit or debit card via PayPal 

Judge's report for the 2022 award.

Notes on using PayPal
– PayPal will open in a new tab
– You will be prompted to set up a PayPal account if you don't already have one
– You will need to enter the appropriate entry fee (see above)
– PayPal payments will be made to Ian Storr.

Submissions 2024

10th May - 10th June theme 'peace'

10th November - 10th December theme 'open'

Please only submit during these periods via the submission form in the journal; if you have any difficulties please send your submission to katherinewinnick.wk@gmail.com

Send in your bio along with  up to three haiku/senryu/monoku, if you haven't heard back from me within two weeks you are free to send your submission elsewhere.

Best wishes

Katherine
Founding Editor
The Shadow Pond Journal

https://www.dailyhaiga.org/submissions/

Submissions:

Submit up to 5 haiku by email per issue:

brooksbooks@gmail.com

Summer issue deadline is May 15.

Winter issue deadline is November 15.

Be sure to include your postal address with all submissions. We like to include the author's location upon publication.

Writers also need to be selective, so we limit submissions to only five per issue.

While we prefer e-mail submissions, we also consider snail-mail submissions from addresses within the United States. Please submit no more than 5 haiku per issue. Include a SASE with snail mail submissions. Do not submit work under consideration by other magazines or contests. Send your snail mail submission to this address:

MAYFLY
6 Madera Court
Taylorville, IL 62568

We pay authors $20 credit toward Brooks Books publications for all submissions published.

MAYFLY authors retain rights to their work: All rights return to authors upon publication, with proper acknowledgement of previous publication in MAYFLY magazine. We retain the right to re-issue back issues in electronic format.

http://psh.org.pl/13th-pihc-2023-results/


First Prize

return
so much fruit
on the cherry tree

Wiesław Karliński, Poland

The first line of an old song from the Shaker religious community in America is "'Tis the gift to be simple." Simplicity is an essential element of haiku as well, and this verse beautifully illustrates that proposition. We are not told who is returning or to what, but we can assume it is a homecoming, perhaps of a soldier or a student. Whoever it may be is glad to be back and excited to see this dear place prospering, as expressed by the happy discovery that the familiar cherry tree is bearing so well. Even the poet's lineation — lines of 2, 3, and 5 syllables makes this haiku seem to swell with delight.

Second Prize

autumn garden
her loneliness
changes colour

Mohammad Azim Khan, Pakistan

As autumn descends, the landscape loses bright colors and takes on muted shades of orange and brown. Similarly, we're told, the human subject's inscape also changes color, but what seems to be implied in this haiku is that the quality of her loneliness does not change but remains constant.

Third Prize

graduation day
how small the world
through grandma's glasses

Christof Blumentrath, Germany

On first reading this haiku seemed to present an unflattering judgment about an older woman and her inability or disinclination to see the larger picture. Rereading it, however, I began to think that the situation was actually one in which poet was describing the woman's pride in her grandchild's accomplishments; that is, on this auspicious occasion the grandmother's focus was entirely on the graduate. Then again, it could have been the older lady who was graduating, and the poet is admiring her single-mindedness in accomplishing this goal so late in life. In either case, I was pleased by this revealing mini-portrait of the poet's grandmother.

10 Commendations (not ranked)

Although it was not intentional, I see that for honorable mention I selected several haiku that deal with "big picture" social and political issues, for example, climate change:

global warming –
migratory birds
stay home

Aljoša Vuković, Croatia

he resurgence in the 21st century of attrition warfare:

a hundred years on
Christmas again
in the trenches

Marjolein Rotsteeg, The Netherlands

And the various crises over refugees and displaced persons:

at a fence
leaves are piling up –
asylum center

Willy Callens, Belgium

This verse might be taken as an eerily contemporary remake of Buson's Blown from the west, / fallen leaves gather / in the east [trans. Robert Haas, The Essential Haiku].

Other honorable mentions have to do with more traditional haiku topics such as the weather. The first killing frost may well mark an absolute border between two seasons:

the first frost
ending and beginning
at the same time

Andrius Luneckas, Lithuania

Atmospheric changes may sometimes be auditory as well as temporal:

frost
a new sound
of the wind

Sława Sibiga, Poland

Seasonal changes can cause a poet to lose concentration. This happened, for example, to American poet Yu Chang: wildflowers / on both sides of the road / I miss the exit.

first snowfall
finding more reasons
not to write

M. R. Defibaugh, USA

and atmospheric changes may be auditory as well as temporal:

early spring
the garden and I
work on each other

Julie Schwerin, USA


The heart-rending implication of the following verse is amplified by the irony that red roses traditionally symbolize love, passion, and vitality:

Valentine's Day
a bunch of red roses
on the roadside cross

Sue Courtney, New Zealand

The meaning of the next haiku shifts drastically when one considers that "pot" can mean either the trap in which a crab is caught or the vessel in which it is cooked.

low tide...
a crab scuttles across the bottom
of the pot

Greg Schwartz, USA

For the last honorable mention I selected this breezy little haiku with its slightly erotic overtones:

summer dress
all the ways breeze
finds its way in

Vandana Parashar, India

This is a chance for haiku writers, who have not yet published an individual collection, to be included in an exciting new venture.  BHS members, Andrew Shimield and David Jacobs, are seeking to showcase 4 to 5 authors of outstanding merit in a single book, planned for publication in 2024.

Poets, who have not so far published a collection of their own work, are invited to submit 30-40 haiku/senryu (published or unpublished), from which the editors will select up to 30 haiku per successful author.  There will be no submission fees, nor will the editors seek any contribution from the chosen authors towards editorial, printing costs or otherwise.  Those included will each receive around 5–10 complimentary copies of the book (exact number to be determined).

The closing date for submissions is December 31, 2023.  In the first instance, please send your work to David at davidjacobs2011@gmail.com, with BOOK VENTURE as the subject line, or by post to Andrew, at 18, Deepwell Close, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 5EN.  Please use David's email for any enquiries.

For further information, please visit:  https://sites.google.com/view/newwritersproject

Link to issue

https://tsuridoro.org/issue-20-march-april-2024


Contact/submission information https://tsuridoro.org/contact

True to its name, tsuri-dōrō seeks to be "a small journal of haiku and senryū" – not an elitist journal by any means, but one that is readable and accessible without being overwhelming.

 

Entry Rules for The 6th Basho-an International English Haiku Competition

Applicants
This contest is for anyone, regardless of experiences and nationalities.

Deadline
All submissions must be received between August 10 and November 10, 2023. (Japan standard time)

Application guidelines
Entries must be submitted via form, using the entry form available in the website of this contest.
A participant can send one piece of Haiku in each entry form. However, each participant can enter up to 10 Haiku by sending multiple entries. (We will appreciate it if the Japanese translation is attached to the Haiku, though it is not required.) A seasonal word is not required. Each haiku piece should be written in 2 to 3 lines.
The entry must include the participant's name, current address, gender, age, and e-mail address. (Gender and age are optional.)
The haiku must be original and unpublished work.
Errors in spelling English Haiku will be corrected by the office.
The haiku work should not counter public order and morality.
Submitted work cannot be altered nor returned.

Fee
No entry fee is required.

Contest results
Winners will be notified via e-mail at the end of December, 2023.

Publications
Awards will be announced on the contest's website and on Koto-ku Culture and Community Foundation's newsletter "Culture Navi KOTO".
In addition, winning pieces will be published in the "43th Sigureki Haiku Competition's Selected Haiku Anthology" in October 2024.

Personal information
Personal information submitted in application is strictly used for this competition's purpose only.
A prize winner's submitted pen name (or name) and hometown will be made public.
(Information such as age, gender, address details and email address will remain confidential.)

Copyrights
The copyright regarding the announcement and publication of the award-winning works, including the secondary use, remains with the Basho Museum.

Judges
Kai Hasegawa (Haiku poet, Haiku critic)
Naoko Fujita (Haiku poet, Supervisor of haiku circle and journal "Shurei", Councillor of Association of Haiku Poets)
Dhugal J.Lindsay (Haiku poet, Marine biologist)

Prize
Each of the three judges awards a "Basho-an Award".
Each of the three judges will choose ten other winners.

Organizer
Koto-ku Culture and Community Foundation
Basho Museum

Contact
basho-an2018@kcf.or.jp


HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ENTRY FORM THAT YOU MUST USE TO SEND YOUR INFORMATION AND POEMS TO THE CONTEST:
https://www.kcf.or.jp/basho/touku/form.php


NOTE: If you cannot access the form, email the contact (Basho Museum staff) at this email address and they will help you submit your poems:
Contact
basho-an2018@kcf.or.jp

Website: (Note: Scroll down past the Japanese for the English version.)
https://www.kcf.or.jp/basho/touku/

IHS International Haiku Competition 2023 Results

1st Prize

mother of pearl
the silvers and greys
of moonlight

Simon Hanson (Australia)

2nd Prize

martins leaving the dark half of the year

John Barlow (England)

3rd Prizes:

spring wind spoken by a pine

Gregory Longenecker (USA)

sunlit stillness
a pair of mallards
exchange breaths

Ron C. Moss (Australia)


Honourable Mentions

In alphabetical order:

white buddleia
the winding flights
of midnight moths

John Barlow (England)

midnight blue
all the stars in the sky
in the lake

Marion Clarke (Northern Ireland)

coming in waves
darkness and moonlight
lapping the shore

Simon Hanson (Australia)

water's edge...
a night heron
probes the moon

Jo McInerney (Australia)

day moon
one then two spiders
floating on seas

Richard L. Matta (USA)

billabong sunset
eyes among
the waterlilies

Cynthia Rowe (Australia)

Holocaust museum –
the names above bodies
lying in trenches

Dan Salontai (USA)

Many congratulations to the worthy winners, and many thanks to everybody who submitted their work to this contest!

https://irishhaiku.com/haikucompetition.htm#:~:text=The%20IHS%20International%20Haiku%20Competition,win%20more%20than%20one%20prize.

Touchstone Award for individual poems https://thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-poem-awards/

Submissions
Please read carefully before submitting work:

Ardea publishes bilingual haiku/senryu, tanka, haiga/photo-haiku, haibun and individual or collaborative linked verse. All submissions must be in two (or more) languages, and one of these must be English. We will consider articles and reviews that deal with multilingual work in these genres, provided that they are submitted in English.

Please email all submissions and enquiries to kinory(at)appleinter(dot)net, replacing (at) and (dot) with the relevant symbols. The submission should be pasted into the body of the email together with your full contact details, and also be attached as a Word file. We may request a PDF and/or JPG file for certain languages.

Submissions are read on an ongoing basis, and will be considered for the next available issue. Material submitted to Ardea may be previously published or unpublished. If it is chosen for publication, you will be invited to provide a short biographical note.

Translations are reviewed by professional translators working in the relevant language-pairs, and any suggested changes will be discussed with the author.

You must hold appropriate copyright in the original version and in the translation, or be authorised by the translator to submit it to Ardea for possible publication.

Submissions Guidelines page:
http://www.ardea.org.uk/submissions.html

https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/fireflies-light/

https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/submissions/

contemporary haibun online (cho) publishes 3 issues per year, April, August, and December.

cho publishes haibun and tanka prose and articles about those forms. It does not publish haiku or tanka independent of haibun or tanka prose. When submitting, please follow the guidelines below. To better understand the type of material we look for, please read "Advice from the Editors" at the bottom of this page.

When to Send

Previously unpublished articles and book reviews can be submitted at any time. Please send haibun, tanka prose, and haiga only during the following submission periods:

Jan. 1–31 for the April issue.
May 1–31 for the August issue
Sept. 1–30 for the December issue

Where to Send

Submissions should be sent to the content editors. The haibun, tanka prose, and article submissions should be contained in the e-mail and not as an attachment. Please e-mail all haiga as .jpg attachments.

Haibun: Rich Youmans (April 2024 issue), Lorraine Padden (Guest Editor, August 2024 issue), Terri French (December 2024 issue). Submit haibun to chohaibunsubmission@gmail.com.

Tanka Prose: Tish Davis (all issues). Submit tanka prose to chotankaprosesubmission@gmail.com.

Articles & Books for Review: Rich Youmans. Click Here to Submit Articles. Books for review may be sent to Rich Youmans at P.O. Box 527, North Falmouth, MA 02556 USA. You can e-mail digital copies here.

Haiga: Ron C. Moss. Submit haiga to chohaigasubmission@gmail.com.

If you have any questions about your submissions, please contact the appropriate content editor.

In submitting your work, you acknowledge that you've read these guidelines and agree with their contents. It can take approximately two weeks for our editors to respond. However, our editors may be unavailable for short periods, so there could be delays in getting back to you. Time constraints and the voluntary nature of editors' roles restrict editors from corresponding in any depth with writers whose work has not been accepted.

Full submission details at  https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/submissions/

Below are the Guidelines for Kokako #41
(May 2024 to July 2024)
All work should be original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.

Please send only one set of submissions per issue of up to 8 pieces.

We do not accept simultaneous submissions.

For the time being, we are only accepting haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, haiga and reviews.

Haibun: to be no more than 400 words.

Haiga: Normally Haiga should have a small edging or a frame, but exceptions for artistic reasons will be considered.

JPEGs only please.

The filename is to be the artist's surname followed by the identifying name of the work, eg. smith-cherryblossoms

Haiga with a poor literary component will not be acceptable.

Digital photographs, digital art, scanned photographs or scanned artwork are acceptable as haiga images. Be sure it still looks good and is easily read when scaled down to 600 pixels on its longest side.

Some kind of signature on the image is prefered.

Reviews: no more than 600 words including title, publication details and quoted poems.

Notification of acceptance will be made after the closing date of each submission period:

1st of May to 1st of July for the September 2024 issue.

1st of November to 1st of February for the April 2025 issue.

Please include poems in the body of an email, or attach a Word document.

In 2024, during the 1st of May to 1st of July window, email submissions to:

kokako.aotearoa@gmail.com

Until that time (for issue 40) the usual submission guidelines and subscription fee for the print version remain, including the email address:

kokakonz@gmail.com