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This Month’s Article
Check out this month’s article:
Twisting Point: The evolution of haiku
in the climate crisis
New Contests
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Publications
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Archives comprise Essays, Articles, NZ Haiku Showcase
and Haiku Commentary.
Contest Results
Maya Lyubenova Haiku Contest (Bulgaria)
Touchstone Awards for Haibun (US)
Touchstone Awards for Poems (US)
Touchstone Awards for Books (US)
Sharpening the Green Pencil (Romania)
Heliosparrow Frontier Awards (Japan)
News & Events
Haiku Down Under 2024
Taking place online from August 16-18. The programme for ‘A Sensory Journey’ has been released, see it here. The weekend is a free event, but registration is necessary to access the presentations and workshops.
NZ Japanese Film Festival 2024
Taking place online from June 5-July 3. Films and TV series are streamed for free.
Find out more here.
Congratulations
To Peter Free who has received an Honourable Mention in the Kaji Aso Haiku Contest (US).
Congratulations
To Jenny Fraser who was featured in Haikupedia (THF) last December.
confluence:
A new journal
confluence will spotlight the work of 1-2 poets at a time, and will seek to build fellowship and community around innovation in haiku. The work of each chosen Fellow will be published over the course of a year, along with commentary and dialogue. confluence is edited by Ryland Shengzhi Li, Antoinette Cheung, and Aidan Castle.
Submit: June 15-July 15.
Full details here.
End Notes (please ignore for now)
Twisting Point: The evolution of haiku in the climate crisis
By Jasmin Kirkbride We will start – as so much haiku criticism does – by examining what is often...
Under the Basho
Under the BashōUnder the Bashō has resumed publication after a break last year, and takes many...