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HAIKU 2049

Greetings poetry lovers! I humbly offer my HAIKU 2049 poetry collection for your consideration and criticism.

From Wednesday 6/12 through Sunday 6/16 the Kindle eBook is FREE!

I love the simple 5-7-5 of haiku. I love videogames. I also love that I was able to publish this collection through Kindle Direct Publishing and hold the paperback and hardcover copies of my book in my hands. If I can do it, so can you!

Do we know if they accept haiku from non-members and those not using Facebook?

Edit: Non-members and social media Luddites are welcome. Responses are lightning fast!

This seems like a really great journal.

Contest Results

https://failedhaiku.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-gene-murtha-contest-results.pdf

Contest Rules

1. Only TWO UNPUBLISHED submissions per poet.

2. Poems that have been workshopped or appeared on social media are suitable.

3. Short submission time of 10 days. Submissions begin on June 1st beginning at 12:01 AM EDT and must be in our email box by midnight EDT on June 10th. Any emails received either before or after will NOT be judged.

4. All email submissions MUST be sent to:  failedhaikucontests@gmail.com with MURTHA CONTEST in the Subject field.

5. The top three Winners will be notified by July 1st but I will not rush the judges so extra time will be given if necessary.

I'd like to thank our judges who will remain anonymous during the course of the contest and for all of the wonderful participants that make this contest so great every year.

-Bryan

https://failedhaiku.com/

Check out submission topic

FOURTH ANNUAL VISPO CONTEST
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Contest window: June 1 - June 20, 2024
 
We are back with our Annual Vispo Contest, now in its fourth edition. Each year is a celebration of the different ways in which artists combine the written word with a visual counterpart, continuing to push the envelope as they play and experiment.
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Judges: Shloka Shankar & Robin Smith
 
What is Vispo?
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Visual poetry is a development of concrete poetry, characterized by intermedia. The predominant elements that constitute a visual poem/vispo include non-representational language and the interplay of text & art. There is a strong graphic element to these pieces.
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"Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen—poetry that presupposes a viewer as well as a reader."— Willard Bohn
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"Never before has language had so much materiality—fluidity, plasticity, malleability—begging to be actively managed by the writer. Before digital language, words were almost always found imprisoned on a page. It's just another reminder that, in the future, words very well might not only be written to be read but rather to be shared, moved, and manipulated, sometimes by humans, more often by machines, providing us with an extraordinary opportunity to reconsider what writing is and to define new roles for the writer. While the writer today is challenged by having to go up against a proliferation of words and compete for attention, she can use this proliferation in unexpected ways to create works that are as expressive and meaningful as works constructed in more traditional ways." — Kenneth Goldsmith
 
What to submit:
 
- blackout poems (cite the source)
- erasures (cite the source & use your original artwork)
- haiga (collaborations welcome)
- Artist Trading Cards
- fridge magnet poetry
- book spine poetry
- asemic writing
- typography art
- collage & cut-ups (digital & analogue)
- altered book pages / mixed-media
- conceptual pieces
 
Guidelines:
 
1. Please type VISPO CONTEST in the subject line and send your entry/entries as an attachment to sonicboomjournal@gmail.com. ALL work must be unpublished. We do not consider pieces published on social media/personal blogs as published. Collaborations welcome.
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2. Make sure you include your name, country, and a short artist's statement or note about your entry/entries in the body of the email. We would love to know your process. :)
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3. Please name each file with the title of your piece and your full name. Example: Title_Full Name. Maximum file size: 2 MB.
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4. The first entry is FREE. If you'd like to submit up to three pieces for consideration, there is a non-refundable entry fee of Rs. 200/$3 USD. If you reside in India, kindly make the payment using this link here. If you reside outside India, kindly make the payment using PayPal to shloks89@gmail.com.
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5. Submissions will remain open from June 1 through midnight on June 20, 2024 (Indian Standard Time). Entries received before or after the contest period will be deleted unread.
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6. The top three winners will receive e-certificates and a cash prize in accordance with the total amount received from the entry fees. Shortlisted entries will be displayed in an online gallery format on our website. Please check out previous years' galleries below.
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As poet and artist Johanna Drucker once noted, "All works of written poetry are graphical, but only some take advantage of that in interesting ways." What will you be sending us? :)

https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/contests

The programming looks awesome for this! :D

An opportunity for previously-published haiku, for folks in the Midwest of the United States, or who have previously lived in the Midwest.

https://www.haikurockgarden.com/submissions

Interesting idea, which I bet many will enjoy.

I'm going to assume that you will be open to cutting-edge haiku such as might be found in Heliosparrow.
We shall see.

I hope you'll consider submitting to this new haiku journal. If you have questions, feel free to email me at li.ryland@gmail.com




confluence haiku journal: Call for Submissions

confluence offers haiku poets a unique opportunity to showcase a representative selection of their work and to collaborate with other poets.  Each issue of the journal will feature 1 to 2 poets and publish a representative sample (at least 15 poems) of the selected poet's work along with critical commentary by other poets. Selected poets are also invited to participate in collaborative writing activities and be published in an year-end anthology.  The editors intend to promote confluence widely in non-haiku poetry circles, so that selected poets may have their work read and appreciated by a more general readership.

Submissions open June 15, 2024 and will be accepted through July 15, 2024. confluence is edited by Ryland Shengzhi Li, Antoinette Cheung, and Aidan Castle. To learn more about the journal and to submit, please visit our website.

Posted on Puddock Facebook page by Colin Stewart-Jones 27.07.24:

Scottish Haiku Society and Scottish Haiku Group

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Welcome to PUDDOCK multi-media haiku journal.
SUBMISSIONS are open and you can submit at any time to:
colinstewartjones@gmail.com  editor

Send up to twelve works of unpublished Haiku, Tanka, Haiga, Vispo, Haibun, Renku, Rengay, Kansho, Book Reviews, Essays, Films, Reels, Cartoons, Multi-media or any other haiku related pieces.

Any theme. Any style. Please bear in mind phone screen sizes and Facebook parameters and make sure fonts are legible when making any concrete poetry, haiga or multi-media.

Include your name and location; country and city or town with each submission.

Work seen on personal pages such as Facebook, Instagram et.c are deemed as unpublished.

Copyright ©️ remains with the authors
We ask you cite 'Puddock' as first publication.
You should keep a copy of all links to your poems for your publication record and bibliography and cite as such:

'PUDDOCK' multi-media haiku journal https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559665289085
and then list the individual links to your work.

'Gean Tree Press' retains the copyright ©️ of the entirety of the journal and print publication rights.

'Puddock' is the Scottish Haiku Society journal and a Gean Tree Press publication.

For those who are curious about the name, PUDDOCK means frog 🐸 in the Scots language.