Dear Marko,
G'day!
I want to ask how it is with copyright when I participate or I win a competition ?.
Sometimes haiku competitions run by Japanese organisations look like they want to own the copyright. Always read carefully. Sometimes it's either a translation glitch into English or a misunderstanding on their part.
So this one appears to show that only the sponsors can have copyright:
Basho Memorial English Haiku ContestLimit of 10 haiku.
Results are announced on October 12 to mark the death anniversary of Basho.
Please note the entry condition that copyright will remain with the sponsors.Closes: July 31.
Cost: Free.
The official website has no information about this year’s contest. However, you may find details here:
https://www.haiku-hia.com/info_en/I personally don't see how they can enforce that for a haiku, as it's a tiny poem, and poets are not given any prize money.
This Japanese contest does not appear to want to own the poet's haiku:
Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum English Haiku ContestLimit 2 entries. One grand prize and two distinguished work prizes in each division (Division 1b is for non-Japanese entrants). Winners announced mid-October and posted to the website.
Submit: July 1-August 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website:
http://samidare.jp/basho/box/13th%20e%20haiku%20contest%20guidelines%20for%20submission.pdfThis contest gives prize money:
Kusamakura Haiku Contest Limit 2 haiku. First prize receives ¥30,000. One prize of ¥10,000, and eight prizes of ¥5000 each, plus 20 other prizes.
Winners informed by email at the beginning of November. Winning poems will appear on the website.
Closes: August 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website:
http://kusamakura-haiku.jp/boshu/index_e.htmlThe Haiku Society of America run contests and will not take copyright but reserve the right to publish the winners in their newsletter and in their contest archives webpage:
Harold G Henderson AwardCash prizes totalling $US450 and winning haiku published in Frogpond and on the Haiku Society of America website. Limit 5 haiku.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: $US7/ entry (discount for HSA members).
Full details from the website:
https://www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-contests.htmAs I am involved with this contest (but as a non-voting team member as I support/mentor so many haiku poets via Call of the Page), you can rest assured we will not take or own your copyright, just reserve the right to publish it, along with your commentary if you are placed:
Trailblazer ContestLimit 1 poem in each of the two categories – tanka/kyoka and haiku/senryu (includes multi-ku / woven poems on a single theme but not sequences that link and shift).
No winners as such, but a list of selected poems with commentaries and interviews and gradual release as an online anthology.
Results in early 2022.
Submit: August 1-31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website:
https://www.trailblazercontest.com/submissions.html Can I include the poems I submitted to the contest in my book of poems that I want to publish in the future?
Most if not all of us do that! I'd say yes! And yes please, as we might like to read your book!
Or poems that I sent to the competition can´t be published not only in any printed / online magazine but also in my own collection after the competition?
If you are placed (won, second, third, honorable mention etc...) it's not usual for a print journal or an online journal to consider what will be a previously published haiku.
There are exceptions, for instance Tinywords, you can submit one or two poems that were placed in contests:
https://tinywords.com/about/These are important questions, thank you for posting them!
Any more questions, just post them here!
warm regards,
Alan
Good day,
I've been writing Haiku for a long time and I decided to try to take part in some haiku competitions organized this year. But I can't find the answer to one question.
I want to ask how it is with copyright when I participate or I win a competition ?. Can I include the poems I submitted to the contest in my book of poems that I want to publish in the future? Or poems that I sent to the competition can´t be published not only in any printed / online magazine but also in my own collection after the competition?