The 4th Kokako Tanka Competition
Entries for the 4th Kokako Tanka Competition are open until 31 October 2012. First Prize is NZ$200, with Second and Third Prizes of NZ$50 each. The Judge is Tony Beyer.
April 25, 2012
September 14, 2011
Snipe Rising From a Marsh – Birds in Tanka
SNIPE RISING FROM A MARSH – BIRDS IN TANKA: An Atlas Poetica Special Feature
Call for submissions:
Tanka poets are invited to submit to a new Atlas Poetica Special Feature, Snipe Rising From a Marsh – Birds in Tanka. (This title is taken from a poem by the Twelfth Century Japanese master Saigyo.)
Tanka on offer should place a particular species of bird in a specific location or physical setting. The bird featured could share permanent residence of such a place with the writer; it may have been encountered on the poet’s travels; the bird might be migratory itself.
A place name must be attached to every tanka submitted, as well as a biological name for each species featured – given in Latin – along with a common name widely used in the identification of such a bird.
The due date for submissions will be December 12, 2011.
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July 11, 2011
25 Tanka Prose
Atlas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka is pleased to announce ‘25 Tanka Prose’ edited and with an introduction by Bob Lucky.
Editor Bob Lucky is a well-known and highly regarded tanka poet who brings his unique view to the form. ‘25 Tanka Prose’, a substantial collection of prosimetrum, the art of combining poetry and prose, can be accessed online at
January 21, 2011
Moonbathing: A Journal of Women’s Tanka
Moonbathing Issue 4 is now accepting submissions. I have additional copies of Moonbathing issue 3, hot off the press. If you wish to purchase a copy(ies), please see information below.
Moonbathing will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Moonbathing will feature only women poets.
Send a maximum of 10 tanka per submission period.
Submission deadlines:
Spring/Summer: In-hand Deadline: May 15th spring/summer themes or non-seasonal only
No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line on a personal website/blog.
SUBMISSION ADDRESSES:
Send your tanka IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to: Pamela A. Babusci: moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS. E-mail submissions ONLY.
I hope that all tanka poets who have their work accepted will support Moonbathing by purchasing a copy or a subscription. If Moonbathing is to survive it will need your support and I will be most grateful for it.
DONATIONS MOST WELCOME.
DISCLAIMER:
Moonbathing does not assume liability for copyright infringement or failure to acknowledge previously published tanka.
COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:
Subscriptions: $10 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada; $5 for single issue. International: $14 (two issues) $7 single issue U.S. dollars; send US cash or international M.O.—payable to
Pamela A. Babusci to: Moonbathing Editor
150 Milford Street Apt. 13 14615-1810 USA
The Editor of Moonbathing is looking forward to receiving your best tanka. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Pamela A. Babusci moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com
Respectfully submitted,
Pamela A. Babusci,
Editor of Moonbathing
March 08, 2010
The 3rd Kokako Tanka Competition
Closing date: 31st October 2010
First Prize
NZ$200
Second and Third Place prizes of NZ$50 each
Judge: Richard von Sturmer
Send entries to:
The Kokako Tanka Competition,
Patricia Prime, co-editor
42 Flanshaw Road
Te Atatu South
Auckland 8
New Zealand
Please make cheques out to Kokako
Overseas entrants may send cash at their own risk
January 16, 2010
Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose #2 - Winter 2009 published
MET Press is pleased to announce the publication of the second issue of the
biannual journal, *Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose*, edited by Jeffrey Woodward.
*MH&TP 2* has been published in print, in PDF ebook, and in an online
digital edition. This Summer 2009 issue is 180 pages in a trade paperback.
ISSN 1947-606X.
*Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose* has established itself as the first and only
periodical devoted exclusively to these two mixed prose-and-verse genres.
Haibun and tanka prose belong to the ancient and venerable tradition of
Japanese poetry and belles-lettres.
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November 21, 2009
Two recent international conferences -haiku and tanka
Please visit the Society of Women Writers NSW Inc website
http://www.womenwritersnsw.org/
to find reports of the recent 4th Haiku Pacific Rim Conference Terrigal Sept 22-25 2009
and the 6th International Tanka Festival Tokyo October 10-12 2009
Access is through the easy to use menu on the left hand side. Just look under poetry events and then click first on haiku and then on tanka. Both these articles, the former with more photographs than shown here, will appear in the Society's bimonthly newsletter "Images" edited by Dita Diamante. Please take time to read the about section of the Society which has been helping women writers since 1925.
A reminder you can also visit the haiku pages of the New Zealand Poetry Society for more details of 4HPR posted by Sandra Simpson.
November 02, 2009
Moonbathing
*MOONBATHING - A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA*
*EDITORS*
*Pamela A. Babusci & Cathy Drinkwater Better*
*Published by Black Cat Press*
Founding Editors Pamela A. Babusci and Cathy Drinkwater Better, and Black Cat Press, are proud to announce the first all women's tanka journal: *Moonbathing*.
*Moonbathing* will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer. The journal will be small in size but huge in the quality of the tanka that is accepted and published.
July 02, 2009
Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose - Winter 2009 Call for Submissions
*Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose*
*Issue 2. Winter 2009*
You are invited to submit haibun and tanka prose for the Winter 2009 issue of *Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose*. The submission deadline is September 30, 2009. Submissions will NOT close earlier than the deadline.
*Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose* is a biannual journal--a print literary journal, a PDF ebook, and a digital online magazine--dedicated to the publication and promotion of fine English haibun and tanka prose. We seek traditional and innovative haibun and tanka prose of high quality and desire to assimilate the best of these Japanese genres into a continuously evolving English tradition. In addition to haibun and tanka prose, we publish articles, essays, book reviews and interviews pertinent to these same genres.
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June 10, 2009
The Saigyo Awards for Tanka 2009
Deadline: In hand August 1, 2009
Prizes: $100; $50; $25. Honorable Mentions. Winners living outside the US will receive subscriptions to tanka journals in place of cash prizes.
Eligibility: Open to everyone.
Entry Fee: None.
Rules: All tanka must be the entrant's original, unpublished work, and not under consideration by any publication or other contest.
Submissions: Up to 10 tanka in English, typed (or printed legibly) on one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Submit 2 copies. Provide name, address and pen name, if you use one, in upper left corner of one copy only.
Correspondence: Send #10 (4 1/8 x 9 1/2) SASE (outside US, SAE and 1 IRC) for notification of results. No entries will be returned.
Mail entries to: Carolyn Thomas, 7866 Hogan Circle, Hemet, CA 92545 USA.
January 27, 2009
The 2nd Kokako International Tanka Competition
Results:
First Place
stopped
by a magpie’s
ochre eye
noticing everything
this first day of spring
Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti (Aus)
Runners Up
your horse up
when mine is down
on our carousel –
puppets of a tired tune
we circle without touching
Beverley George (Aus)
pohutukawa filaments
in the folds of our map –
crimson needles
pointing to
the magnetic north
Richard von Sturmer (NZ)
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January 20, 2009
MODERN HAIBUN & TANKA PROSE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, Issue 1. Summer 2009
You are invited to submit haibun and tanka prose for the Summer 2009 premiere issue of Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose. The submission deadline is March 31, 2009. Submissions will NOT close earlier than the deadline.
Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose is a biannual journal-a print literary journal, a PDF ebook, and a digital online magazine-dedicated to the publication and promotion of fine English haibun and tanka prose. We
seek traditional and innovative haibun and tanka prose of high quality and desire to assimilate the best of these Japanese genres into a continuously evolving English tradition. In addition to haibun and tanka prose, we publish articles, essays, book reviews and interviews pertinent to these same genres.
Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose specializes in fine haibun and tanka prose. All selection decisions will be made at the sole discretion of the editor.
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