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Robert Frost Poetry Festival Haiku Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US175. Three-line haiku only and poems must contain a seasonal or nature image.
Closes: March 12 (postmarked).
Cost: $US10/3 haiku.
Full details from the website.
Robert Speiss Memorial Award
Cash prizes totalling $US175 and copies of Bob's books. Limit of 5 haiku on a theme set by one Bob's "speculations". Winning entries will be published in the (northern) summer issue of Modern Haiku and posted on the website.
Closes: In hand March 13.
Cost: $US1/haiku.
Full details from the website.
NCSU Insect Museum Annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge
"Small prizes" for the first two place-getters. Limit 3 haiku - haiga and senryu judged as haiku equivalents - on the theme of seasonal change and insects. Poems will also be judged on the accuracy of their arthropod biology. Includes a category for writers aged under 13. Please note the fine print regarding reprinting of any poems entered.
Closes: March 20.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website, including information on arthropods.
Haiku Magazine Contest
Limit of 6 haiku, 5-7-5 format, unpublished haiku only. Results will be published in the (northern) spring/summer issue of Haiku magazine and winners and selected others in an anthology.
Closes: March 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details, including the typeface required, from this website. Email English entries here.
Haiku Now! Contest
Cash prizes in three categories - traditional, contemporary and innovative - with each first place receiving $US100. Limit 1 poem in each category. Results announced in April on The Haiku Foundation website. Judges (after a pre-selection process) are Jim Kacian and Billy Collins.
Closes: March 31.
Cost: Free.
For full details, including what the category titles mean and the online entry form, see the website.
Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards
The awards are made for excellence in published haiku, translation, and criticism and have cash prizes totalling $US650. A list of winners will be published in Frogpond and the HSA website. Books must have been published in 2009 and clearly must contain a printed 2009 ©. An author or publisher may submit more than one title.
Closes: In hand by March 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Haiku Pen Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US170. Winners will be posted on the Lyrical Passion website, which requires electronic rights and possibly reprint rights.
Closes: April 15.
Cost: $US2/haiku or $US7/5 haiku. It is possible to pay online via the website.
For full details see the website.
Kaji Aso Studio Contest
For haiku, senryua, tanka, haiga and "concise" haibun. Cash prizes totalling $US450, plus the Elizabeth Searle Lamb Memorial Prize of $US50 and $US50 for the best senryu. Winners posted to the website in June.
Closes: April 15 postmarked.
Cost: $US2/ 2 IRCs per poem.
For full details and past winners see the website.
Katikati Haiku Contest
Cash prizes totalling $NZ175 in the senior section (18 and over) and $NZ90 in the junior section (17 and under). Unpublished haiku only (broadcast or appearing on the internet is deemed to be publication). Unlimited entries. Send 2 copies of each poem, with one copy only including your name, address, phone number (no mobiles please) and email address. For the junior section please also include your age. Haiku should preferably be typewritten, 4/5 poems to an A4 sheet is fine. A judge's report will be sent by email, otherwise include a stamped addressed envelope with your entry. Prizes will be announced and awarded at an event in Katikati on June 6.
Closes: April 16.
Cost: Within NZ: 18 & over, $5 for every 3 haiku or $2/haiku. 17 & under, $1/ up to 2 haiku. For overseas entrants: $US5 for every 3 haiku or $US2/haiku.
Send entries to: Katikati Haiku Contest, PO Box 183, Katikati 3166, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Senior section judge is Sandra Simpson; junior Catherine Mair.
HSA Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition
Cash prizes totalling up to $US150, publication in Frogpond and on the HSA website. A renku may consist of 36, 20, or 12 stanzas (kasen, nijûin, or junicho forms) written by two or more persons, each of whom contributes a substantial number of individually-authored stanzas. Any particular author may appear in no more than three different renku entered.
Closes: In hand April 30.
Cost: $US10/manuscript.
Full details from the website, including past winners.
Think Tanka Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US150. Winners posted on the Lyrical Passion website, which requires electronic rights and possibly reprint rights.
Closes: April 30.
Cost: $US2/tanka or $US7/5 tanka. It is possible to pay through the website.
Full details from the website.
Genkissu Spirits Up! Haiku Contest
The organisers advise there will be no contest in 2010.
NZPS International Haiku Contest
Top five haiku/senryu will be awarded $NZ100 each; first place will also receive the Jeanette Stace Memorial Prize of $NZ150. Winners will be published in the NZPS annual anthology.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: $NZ1/haiku, for NZPS members every 5th haiku is free. It is now possible to pay online using PayPal.
Full details from the website. Judge is Tony Beyer.
NZPS Haiku Junior Contest
Top five haiku/senryu will be awarded $50 each; first place will also receive the Jeanette Stace Memorial Prize of $NZ100. This contest is open only to entrants who are 17 years of age or younger on May 31, 2010. Schools may send bulk entries, but poems must be clearly attributed to authors. Winners will be published in the NZPS annual anthology.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: $NZ1/pair of haiku
Full details from the website. Judge is Karen Peterson Butterworth.
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
Limit 1 haiku on the theme of cherry blossoms. Winners announced in the northern autumn and winning poems featured during the 2011 festival. Winners will be published by Haiku Canada and on the VCBF website. Judge is Michael Dylan Welch.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: Free
Full details from the website, follow the link to haiku.
Klostar Ivanic International Haiku Contest
Organised by Tourist Community of Klostar Ivanic, Croatia, and Three Rivers Haiku Association. Cash prizes totalling $US100. Limit of 3 haiku which must contain "nature and man as part of it". Results on the internet by November 1.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: Free.
Send entries (include addressed envelope with 1 IRC for results) to: Haiku Association Three Rivers, Kolodvorska 44, 10310 Ivanic Grad, Croatia; or email with the subject line "For the contest". Send haiku only in the body of the message.
