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In addition there will be up to seven Highly Commended haiku/senryu.
Entrants may win more than one prize.
Deadline:
All the entries shall be postmarked by September 30th 2008. Overseas (non-EU) entries mailed in the month up to and including this closing date must be sent by airmail.
Address for entries:
Administrator,
The IHS International Haiku Competition 2008
75 Willow Park Grove
Glasnevin
Dublin 11
Ireland
2. A haiku/senryu written in Irish (Gaelic), or in a foreign language, should be submitted accompanied by an English translation of the haiku on the same list. These translations cannot be made by the adjudicator of the competition or edited by him.
3. Haiku by members of the IHS are eligible for the competition. Haiku by the members of the Board of the IHS are not eligible.
4. Each haiku must be accompanied by a fee of € 3 or £2.50 sterling or ¥ 500, or USA $4. Or with each seven haiku: € 20 or£15 sterling or ¥ 3000 or $25. Methods of payment: personal cheques, International Bank Drafts or postal/money orders in Euro, or U.K Sterling, or US Dollars only, are acceptable and should be made payable to The Irish Haiku Society. No other cheques/ International Bank Drafts/ postal/money orders can be accepted. Entrants in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries should send Euro, US, Sterling or Yen banknotes, unless they have an Ireland-, US- or UK-based bank account. Please do not send coins.
5. Haiku/senryu of 17 syllables or fewer are eligible for the competition. All haiku must be the original work of a living author. They must not have been previously published, self-published, published on an edited or unedited website, or have won a prize, or Honourable Mention, at a haiku contest.
6. The poems must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. Each haiku must be submitted on a separate sheet of paper.
7. The haiku and payment should be firmly attached to the entry form/covering letter. The name of the entrant must not appear on the poems themselves.
8. Contestants are asked to provide a covering letter with their name, address, Phone Number, E-mail address, Date of Birth, Nationality, Occupation, the first lines of their poems, and any Haiku group affiliation. The name of the translator(s), if any, must also appear in the covering letter but not on the poems themselves.
9. No alterations can be made to the haiku once it has been submitted, and it is regretted that no entries can be returned.
10. Haiku cannot be submitted via the adjudicator of the competition. Any attempt to contact the adjudicator of the competition in relation to it will result in immediate disqualification.
11. The judge's decisions are final and no correspondence can be entered into regarding those decisions.
Submission of haiku implies the competitor's acceptance of the conditions set out above.
The prize-winners will be announced and awarded in early October 2008. A list of the prize-winners will be posted up on the IHS website at http://www.irishhaiku.webs.com as soon as they are announced.
Copyright will remain with the competitors, but the Irish Haiku Society reserves the right to arrange first publication or broadcast of selected haiku as it sees fit.
Adjudicator
Anthony Anatoly Kudryavitsky is the editor of Shamrock Haiku Journal and the current President of the Irish Haiku Society. His own collections include Shadow of Time (2005) and Morning at Mount Ring (2007), the latter being a book of haiku and senryu.
hawk in flight
recycling the wind
into himself
Second prize was awarded to Sharon Dean for her haiku:
coastal cafe
she suckles in the shade
of mum's cowboy hat
Third prize was awarded to Helen Davison for her haiku:
spring again
birth-marks
on the snow gums
Haiku selected for the anthology will be announced soon.
]]>Join us at the launch of Melbourne’s latest travelling exhibition of emerging art and inspiring poetry at ArtPlay, an historic railway building at Birrarung Marr.
Date: Thursday 8 MayTime: 6.00pm for a 6.15pm start, until 8.00pmPlace: ArtPlay, Birrarung Marr
RSVP by Wednesday 30 April to Annette Brook at launch@movinggalleries.org or call 9650 8800
Directions: Access to ArtPlay through Federation Square or from Batman Avenue. Car parking available at Federation Square. Please refer to map.
Thirty-one delegates attended with twenty-nine flying or driving in from various parts of New Zealand, including Invercargill, Dunedin, Hamilton, Wellington, Otago and Auckland. Australian Haiku Society Queensland Regional Representative, Jeffrey Harpeng, a founder of The Small White Teapot Club and instrumental in its naming, flew in from Brisbane, and I arrived from Pearl Beach, via Sydney.
The congenial but explorative tone of the conference was established on Friday night in the keynote address by Cyril Childs and led to lively, open-minded discussion throughout the conference. It was interesting to learn Cyril first became intrigued by haiku while working in Matsuyama, Japan, in 1989. Matsuyama is the birthplace of the poet Shiki and there is a wonderful museum there, the Shiki-Kinen, dedicated to haiku.
A highlight of the conference was the launching by Laurice Gilbert, National Coordinator and current President of the NZPS of the anthology: the taste of nashi : New Zealand Haiku. Edited by Nola Borrell and Karen P Butterworth, and published by Windrift, the taste of nashi is a carefully selected and tastefully produced publication. Design and layout are enhanced by calligraphy from Japan organised specifically for this anthology. It was pleasing to see that so many poets whose work was included were able to attend the event.
To find out more about this book and to order a copy please visit http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haikunews/haikuhappenings
The launch was followed by an innovative presentation of image and haiku by filmmaker and poet, Richard von Sturmer.
A large park adjacent to the conference proved the ideal setting for an autumn ginko. The first observation was made by Jeffrey Harpeng who spotted a $10 note floating in the dark stream. At some peril this was retrieved – and relinquished – by Owen Bullock, though I did hear mutterings of a book trade. After that everyone spread out and got down to the serious business of observation and recording.
Haiku Aotearoa was an inspiring and successful event. Personally, it was an especial delight to meet so many people whose work I have published over time in Yellow Moon and in Eucalypt. They included: Nola Borrell, Andre Surridge, Helen Yong, Karen Butterworth, Barbara Strang, Elaine Riddell, Joanna Preston, Owen Bullock, Shirley May, Jeff Harpeng. Although they are no longer with us, I am pleased to be able to say I also published the work of Bernard Gadd, Jeannette Stace and Veronica Haughey. Veronica particularly, stayed in regular contact over nearly eight years with the help of a good friend. A tanka of Bernard Gadd’s is included in Eucalypt 2, a number of copies of which I donated to the conference for this reason.
Beverley George
President
Australian Haiku Society (HaikuOz)
Deadline: Inhand by July 31, 2008. Entries received after that date will not be accepted.
Eligibility: The contest is open to the public. HSA officers who are members of the executive committee are not eligible, but regional coordinators may enter.
]]> Regulations: Up to 10 unpublished haiku, not submitted for publication or to any other contest. Publication is defined as an appearance in a printed book, magazine, or journal (sold or given away), or in any online journal that presents edited periodic content. The appearance of poems in online discussion lists or personal Web sites is not considered publication. Judges will be asked to disqualify any haiku that they have seen before.Submissions: Submit each haiku on three separate 3" x 5" cards, two with the haiku only (for anonymous judging), the third with the haiku and the author’s name, address, phone number and/or e-mail address in the upper left-hand corner. Please designate as "haiku." Haiku not submitted on 3" x 5" cards will not be accepted. Please type or write each haiku legibly in ink. Failure to follow this format may result in disqualification without notice.
Entry fee: $1 per haiku, U.S. funds only. Please make checks/money orders payable to "Haiku Society of America."
Submit entries and fees to:
Henderson Haiku Contest,
c/o Francine Banwarth,
985 So. Grandview
Dubuque, IA 52003 USA.
Adjudication: The names of the judge(s) will be announced after the contest.
Awards: First Prize, $150; Second Prize, $100; Third Prize, $50. Winning haiku will be published in Frogpond and on the HSA Web site.
Rights: All rights revert to the authors after publication.
Correspondence: Sorry, entries cannot be returned. Please send an SASE (No. 10 size envelope only) for a list of the winning entries. Please note that SASEs with insufficient postage will not be mailed. One envelope per contest.
]]>The Australian Haiku Society warmly congratulates American haiku poet Roberta Beary and publisher Snapshot Press [UK].
Roberta Beary's collection of haiku and senryu The Unworn Necklace was one of two finalists in the Society's 2008 poetry awards, an outstanding achievement.
]]>To read the complete article by Jacqui Murray click on the following link to download it in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
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Theme: Autumn kigo haiku
Amount: Must be 8 poems. Any submissions with more or less poems will be discarded.
How: Submit 2 copies on typed or Word document (8/1/2 x 11) paper. One copy with manuscript title, author's name, address, and email address in upper right corner; one copy with the poems only. No SASE needed. Please try to include all information on one sheet! If poems have been previously published, please include the proper publication credits.
Deadline: July 4th, 2008
Entry Fee: None.
]]> Winner: Will be chosen by judge(s) to be announced at a later time. The winning author receives a honorarium of $20.00 and 20 copies of the chapbook.Book Description: A 12 page mini-chapbook approximately 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, with card stock cover, cover photo, and saddle stapled.
Publication Date: Will be published in late September to coincide with the beginning of Autumn.
How To Enter: All entries must be sent via postal mail to:
True Vine Press
Autumn Kigo 08
P.O. Box 150932
Lufkin, Texas 75915-0932
Gerald England
New Hope International; Haiku Talk
reviews, poetry, photography and more
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/
Becky Alexander and Wendy Visser, masters of the provocative visions haiku revels in unfolding, offer a collaboration to enjoy throughout the year, each season captured with fresh insight in arresting language. Sound and colour in elusive brief lines catch bird and beastie, the homely comfort of den and porch, as the seasons
challenge and embrace. Both humour and haunt fountain through the work.
"Winding lane," "disappearing shadows" invite you to explore the "wisps" and "curves" that twist their enigmatic beauty as the earth, and you, revolve in a joyful excursion into the theatre of nature.
from a review by Katherine L. Gordon,
Author, Editor, Publisher, Judge and Reviewer, Resident Columnist for Ancient Heart Magazine.
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