Tony Beyer (Open)

Tony Beyer's poems have appeared in New Zealand and international publications for several decades. He has judged the best first book and poetry categories of the New Zealand book awards, and the Bravado international poetry competition. From 2003 to 2005 he edited the Australian periodical Poetry Aotearoa: new poetry from New Zealand. His most recent book is Dream Boat: selected poems (HeadworX, Wellington, 2007).

Helen Rickerby (Junior Open)

Helen Rickerby is one of the founders of JAAM magazine, of which she is currently co-managing editor. In 2003 she started the small publishing company Seraph Press, which so far has published two poetry books and a collection of poems and satires. Her first poetry collection, Abstract Internal Furniture, was published by HeadworX in 2001, and her second, My Iron Spine, should be forthcoming in 2008. She can often be found blogging about writing, reading and publishing at: wingedink.blogspot.com.

Sandra Simpson (Haiku)

Sandra Simpson won the Kokako Haiku Competition in 2005 (co-winner) and 2007, and she is the only Southern Hemisphere writer featured in A New Resonance 5, a biennial collection of "emerging voices in haiku" from around the world, published by Red Moon Press (US) in 2007. She is secretary of the Katikati Haiku Pathway Committee, judged the senior section of the 2007 Katikati Haiku Contest, and edits the Haiku News webpages for the New Zealand Poetry Society. Her haiku appear regularly in journals in New Zealand, the US and Australia.

Nola Borrell (Junior Haiku)

Nola's interest in haiku began in the mid-1990s as a member of the New Zealand Poetry Society. Now, thoroughly absorbed, she writes more haiku than mainstream poetry. Her haiku have been published in eight other countries. She was 1st and 2nd in the Katikati Pathway Haiku Contest, 2006. Nola is co-editing a forthcoming national haiku anthology with Karen Butterworth. In 2005 she organised a national haiku festival in 2005 with Karen and the late Jeanette Stace. She is a key member of Windrift Haiku Group of Wellington, compiles 'HaikuNewZ' for NZPS's bi-monthly magazine, a fine line, and is a member of Zazen, an email workshop.

 

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