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The April 2024 issue of cattails is available online:

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails241.pdf



Next submission window is 1st July - 31st July for the October isssue. More on how to submit: http://www.cattailsjournal.com/submissions.html


We are currently not publishing collaborations.




The cattails editorial team

Glitches on the new website, arrgh. Anyway, here's the link to the Guidelines and Submittable form. Note that the closing date has changed to May 31.
https://newzealandpoetrysociety.submittable.com/submit

When I click thru here, the link appears dead. Is there going to be a NZ Haiku contest this year?

Apologies to anyone visiting the new NZ Poetry Society/Haiku NewZ website and not finding the usual updates. I was out of the country when the new site was launched but am receiving training this week to enable me to resume looking after Haiku NewZ, yay!
The new website was not built to hold the archives of Haiku NewZ, so these have been moved. Archived articles, a list of Publications, NZ Haiku Showcase, and Haiku Commentary are now available here: https://nzhaiku.wordpress.com/ The Monthly Article will continue to be archived on this second site.
Hopefully, there's a link on the new site that will take you there.
I appreciate your patience as I get used to a new way of working,
Sandra Simpson
Haiku NewZ editor

Haiku Down Under is back in 2024, from August 16-18 - this time on a sensory journey. The programme is available on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/haikudownunder/home
Participants from any country are welcome to register.

 Closing soon

Thanks for posting this information, Kat!

marion

Deadline: Open from 1 May 2024 to 31 May 2024, results will be posted by the end of June 2024.
Sponsor: The United Haiku and Tanka Society.
Coordinator: Marilyn Humbert, Australia.
Adjudication: an'ya, USA.
Eligibility: Open to everyone worldwide.
Awards: This contest is FREE for up to 10 entries, all rights remain with the tanka poets. Printable Award Certificates will be emailed to the winners for First, Second, Third, and one Honorable Mention. (see below).

Submit: Entries must be the author's original work, be unpublished and never posted publicly anywhere, and not under consideration elsewhere for the entire time it takes to complete the judging. This contest is un-themed, and 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, long, long rhythm written in 5 horizontal lines of text.

Contest Coordinator's Note: "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.", Marilyn Humbert

Entry Fee: None, it's FREE
Guidelines: Use the subject heading FLEETING WORDS, and type each individual tanka in the body of your email; no attachments, please. Include your name, country, and email contact. Email your entries to mhumbert1953@ gmail dot com (no political, offensive, or inappropriate material).
Notification: ONLY the winners will be notified via email, (and if you have no email address available, (please provide a proxy email address.) If you do not hear anything from us by 15 June 2024 your entries are automatically free to submit elsewhere. Entries that do not follow these guidelines will not be considered, so please read very carefully.
Publication: The winning tanka will be featured in late June 2024 on the UHTS website along with the judges' commentary. Thank you for participating and good luck to all.

https://www.theunitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/2023/05/fleeting-words-tanka-contest-2023.html?m=1

Hi Dipankar,

Hiro Sato prefers 1-line haiku in English as Japanese haiku are traditionally single lines.
Some translators have quatrains, in the past even Heroic Couplets, go figure.

A lot of haiku contain metaphor and simile (Japan, other countries) and of course metaphorical language, and the extreme brevity of hokku or haiku will bring out startling comparisons.

Many haibun editors have different views on what haibun is allowed to be.

Check out:
The Blo͞o Outlier Journal Summer Issue 2021 (Issue #2) ed. Alan Summers, with Grix, and Kat Lehmann
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/

Also The Pan Haiku Review issue 4 later this year, will be a haibun only edition, and as a teacher of haibun, I'm very open to styles.

kind regards,
Alan