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
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.
Continue reading "Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose #2 - Winter 2009 published" »
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.
*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.
*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.
Continue reading "Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose - Winter 2009 Call for Submissions" »
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.
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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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.
Continue reading "MODERN HAIBUN & TANKA PROSE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" »