The Heron’s Nest Peggy Willis Lyles Award 2022 - CLOSED

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The Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards for 2022


Maximum number of haiku allowed: five (5) haiku in English

Judging criteria: Selection will be blind to authorship and the sole criterion will be excellence

Judge: to be identified with the winners

Entry fee: none

Eligibility: all haiku poets other than the staff of The Heron's Nest and the contest judge

Awards:

First Place - $150, a copy of To Hear the Rain and a miniature crystal turtle

Second Place - $75, a copy of To Hear the Rain

Third Place - $50, a copy of To Hear the Rain

Honorable Mention (up to five recipients) - award certificates and recognition on our "Awards" page and in our annual print edition.

NOTE: monetary awards to non-US winners will be made through PayPal, where possible, in order to avoid the high cost of bank processing fees.

Deadline for entries: June 1, 2022

How to enter: By email to John Stevenson at ithacan@earthlink.net (put "Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards" in the subject line; provide haiku in the body of the email only-attachments will not be opened. Include your name and your location as you would like to see each listed.)

The submitted poems must not have been published; not accepted for publication; not under consideration by anyone other than us until we announce the contest results.

Announcement of results: July 31, 2022 on our website.