The Haiku Foundation Forums

For this year's contest:

-We accept only African themed haiku i.e. haiku about African sights, sounds and settings. Haiku based on non-African theme will not be accepted, however, haiku with universal themes may be considered.
– Haiku must contain clear images, settings and juxtaposition.
– Haiku must be concise and as brief as possible.
- A 17 syllable haiku accepted but not encouraged.
– One-word or one-liner haiku will not be accepted.
– We will not tolerate plagiarism, profanity, use of vulgar words and politically
motivated verses.
– We encourage the use of African season words as opposed to the Japanese kigo.
– We do not accept haiga.
– Please submit up to five (5) haiku for this contest.

Submission window opens from September 1, 2021, to November 30, 2021, and should be sent to: africahaikunetwork@gmail.com, the official email address of Africa Haiku Network.

Emails should carry subject line "Africa Haiku Prize 2021", followed by name and
country of submitter in the body of mail.

Results will be out between December 2021 and January 2022 and judges or panel announced concurrently.

Judges or panel's decision on winning haiku is final and not subject to negotiation.
There is no restriction on submitter's age, and every person can submit to either the
African Category or Non-African Category with the exception of members of Africa
Haiku Network editorial team.

The overall winners in each category will receive gifts and certificate. While 2nd and
3rd place winners in each category receive certificate only. We will also acknowledge
other distinguished non-winning haiku by way of honorable mention.

We hope to improve upon winners' prizes in the years ahead.

https://www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-award/2021-porad-award-winners?fbclid=IwAR31Z1NZxT0hY8EjBfmuStdbOWEbyjIMgy-CJbqx_pr5ZNnqgRVkWtO7bn8

Announcing The Seventh Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition

Failed Haiku is happy to announce the senryu haiga competition in honor of Jane Reichhold. Jane's passing touched many of us; her love of all the haiku arts was legendary. We especially wanted her love of haiga and of senryu to be remembered and celebrated by artists and poets of both forms.

We have assembled two judges for this competition: Steve Hodge and Hemapriya Chellapan. Their decisions will be final.

Here are the rules of the competition:

Two First Place winners will be chosen from the following categories:

- Traditional Haiga, as in ink, ink wash, watercolor, oils, or tempera.
- Photographic and mixed media-based haiga.

All should contain a 'senryu' as the poem.

Winners in each category will be published in the November 5 issue of Failed Haiku, along with a short write-up by the judges.

The entries can be by a single artist providing both senryu and image, OR any form of collaboration between artists. Please be sure to include complete attribution to both images and poems with your entry.

Only TWO entries per artist, and collaborations will count toward both artists' totals.

All entries can be sent in either JPG or PNG formats and should be of high quality.

In the email containing your entry please tell us 'briefly' about how the image was created AND what category you are entering them in!

Entries should be original work that has not appeared in any edited journal, but work that has been displayed on social media or personal websites is acceptable.

All entries should be sent by email to reichholdhaiga@haikuhut.com ONLY.

Entries will ONLY be accepted from October 15 to October 20th at Midnight Eastern Time. Any entries received earlier or later will NOT be judged.

The judges will render their final decisions by October 30th, and the top three winners will be notified shortly thereafter.

The judges will, at their sole discretion, name ANY number of other entries as Honorable Mentions or Highly Commended.

Jane Reichhold was a poet/artist who worked in every form of haiga, some of which can be found at her site: AHA Poetry. A short memorial for her is posted at Under the Basho, with a link to her own long body of work. Jane inspired many, and we hope she will continue to inspire. Some of her own haiga can be found at her site: AHA Poetry
https://www.ahapoetry.com/

Bryan Rickert, Editor, Failed Haiku

I began reading this issue last night—wow, what powerful writing!

Well done to all involved.

marion

https://www.vcbf.ca/haiku-invitational/winning-haiku/2021-winning-haiku

Closing today

Responding to Ron Moss's images - one verse per person

https://australianhaikusociety.org/2021/09/10/prior-announcement-ahs-spring-haiga-kukai-2021/

https://www.eucalypt.info/E-about.html

Fujisan Taisho (Mt. Fuji Grand Prize) Tanka Festival 2021


Call for Tanka Submissions

Open to everyone
Entry Fee: None
Deadline: September 30, 2021

Theme: Mt. Fuji or any other mountains (It is unnecessary to include the word "Fujisan")
your inspiration or feeling when you climbed Mt. Fuji or any other mountains, or any other tanka concerning mountains.

Rules: Unpublished English tanka only.
Send one best tanka per person.
Entry is via email only.
Send one tanka via email to itseditors@googlegroups.com

with heading, "Fujisan Taisho Tanka".

Place your tanka directly with your name, postal address, and country in the body of the email.

Prize: Fujisan Taisho and so forth

Aya Yuhki,
President of International Tanka Society

https://thehaikufoundation.org/thf-monthly-kukai-september-2021/

https://sablebooks.org/international-womens-haiku-contest/

Entries & Award
The Entry Fee is $15.
Entries will be accepted through the end of September, at which point the contest will close.

The winning poet will receive a prize of $100 plus 20 copies. The winning book will have international distribution points to avoid international postage overseas from the U.S.

Submissions: Guidelines & Requirements
Manuscripts may include up to 65 poems – haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun*, tanka prose* – in any combination.
*Haibun & Tanka Prose – a 300-word limit for prose.

Please submit a 'blind' copy of your manuscript with no identifying text.  Include your name and contact info in the body of your submission email only. All judging is anonymous.

Closing soon

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MahMight haiku journal
"the journal you might not like!"
https://mahmighthaikujournal.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-mahmight-introduction-to-new-haiku.html

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