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ITO En Haiku Project 2009
Limit 1 haiku "based around Change, Hope and Progress" in 5-7-5 format. Haiku selections announced on July 20 with those selected printed on bottles of tea in 2010. Unpublished haiku only.
Closes: July 6.
Cost: Free.
For full details see the website. Please read the copyright notice carefully.
Summer Haiku Contest
No word on prizes. The contest is being run by the Thunder Bay International Fine Arts Association and the Lakehead Japanese Canadian Cultural Association.
Closes: July 22.
Cost: $C10/haiku.
For full details see the website (click on the poster). It says there's an entry form, but ...
Harold G Henderson Award
Cash prizes totalling $300 and winning haiku published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. Limit of 10 haiku.
Closes: In hand July 31.
Cost: $US1/ haiku.
Full details from the website.
Gerald Brady Memorial Award for Senryu
Cash prizes totalling $US225 with winning poems published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. Limit of 10 senryu.
Closes: In hand July 31.
Cost: $US1/ senryu.
Full details from the website.
Matsuo Basho Memorial Haiku Contest
Limit 10 haiku. Poems must be original, unpublished work (double submissions or work previously published under a different name may not be used). Send either 2 haiku/postcard-size card with your name, address, nationality and phone number on the back of each card. Entries may also be sent by e-mail, including the same contact details. Prizewinners will be announced during the Basho Festival on October 12. The copyright of all entries belongs to the competition sponsers as "as unfortunately, we cannot return entries".
Closes: July 31.
Cost: Free.
Details may become available on the website on July 1. They're not there yet.
Post entries to: The Basho poetry offerings supervisor, Basho-o Kinenkan (Basho Memorial Museum), Ueno Marunouchi 117-13,
Iga city, Mie prefecture JAPAN 518-8770; or send by e-mail.
Moonset Haiku Competition
Prizes are subscriptions and copies of Moonset. Results published in the (northern) autumn/winter issue of Moonset.
Closes: In hand August 1.
Cost: $US2/poem.
For full details see the website. It is possible to enter and pay via the website.
Saigyo Awards for Tanka
Cash prizes totalling $US175 (prizewinners outside the US will receive subscriptions to tanka journals). Limit 10 tanka.
Closes: In hand August 1.
Cost: Free.
For full details see this website.
Mainichi Daily News Haiku Contest
Limit of 2 haiku in the international section. Books, etc as prizes. Also a children's section. Please note the copyright restrictions. Winners announced in January 2010.
Closes: August 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Kusamakura Haiku Competition
Limit 2 haiku. First prize receives an airticket to Kumamoto and accommodation, as well as ¥50,000 ($648). Other prizes totalling ¥60,000. Winners announced in November. A magazine containing all entries will be sent at the end of February 2010.
Closes: September 10.
Cost: Free.
For full details see the website. (Not updated for 2009 yet, but the details remain the same.)
Ginyu Prize for Haiku Collections/Anthologies
¥100,000 prize. There is no limit to the size of the collection entered. Results announced in the (northern) autumn edition of Ginyu magazine. To see winners from previous years go here. Ginyu editor Ban'ya Natsuishi is the judge.
Closes: September 10.
Cost: Free.
Send entries to Ginyu Press, 3-16-11 Tsurusenishi, Fujimi, Saitama 354-0026, Japan. Tel & fax: 81-49-252-9823 or email haikubanya@mub.biglobe.ne.jp (also use this address for any further information).
Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition
Cash prizes totalling $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 September 15.
Cost: $US15/manuscript.
Full details, including past winners, from the website.
World Haiku Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US170 with winners and honourable mentions posted on the Lyrical Passion website. Haiku on the theme of autumn and winter. Entry and payment may be made via the website, or by snail mail. Note the contest "requires first and electronic rights".
Closes: September 15.
Cost: $US2/haiku or $US7/5 haiku.
For full details see the website.
WHA Haiga Contest
Being held to celebrate Druskininkai Poetic Fall and the 5th WHA Conference in Lithuania. First three places each win a copy of Flying Pope 161 Haiku by Ban'ya Natsuishi.
Closes: September 20.
Cost: Free.
Announcement of the contest is here; submission details at the bottom of the page here.
Tanka Splendour
For the 20th anniversary contest AHA Books will publish a print version of Tanka Splendour 2009 containing 31 tanka and 3 tanka sequences and the author of each winning entry will receive a copy. Each author may submit either a group of up to 3 unpublished tanka or 1 tanka sequence (3 or more tanka). Those entering by e-mail also do the judging.
Closes: Midnight, September 30.
Cost: Free.
Full details and entry form from the website.
Biennial British Haiku Society Haibun Anthology 2009
Judges felt there were insufficient entries of quality the first time entries closed in February so have extended the closing date. Entries must be between 100 and 2000 words long, including haiku, and each haibun must be titled. It is anticipated that the anthology will be published by Christmas 2009. All those whose work is included will receive 1 copy of the anthology.
Closes: In hand October 1.
Cost: £6/$US12 for a single haibun, £3/$US6 for each additional haibun.
For full details see the website.
Penumbra Haiku Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US160 and publication in contest chapbook. 3-line haiku only. Winners notified by December 30, results posted to website by December 30.
Closes: Postmarked October1.
Costs: $US3/haiku.
For full details see the website.
Jerry Kilbride Memorial Haibun Contest
Named in honour of a well-known American haijin. Cash prizes of $US150. Winners will be posted on the Central Valley Haiku Club website.
Closes: October 1.
Cost: $US5/haibun.
Full details from the website.
World Tanka Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US190 with winners and honourable mentions posted on the Lyrical Passion website. Payment and entry may be made via the website, or by snail mail. Note the contest "requires first rights, electronic rights and possibly publication reprint rights (but you would be notified)".
Closes: October 10.
Cost: $US2/tanka or $US7/5 tanka.
For full details see the website.
Kokako Haiku & Senryu Competition
A first prize of $NZ200 and two runner-up prizes of $NZ50 each with winning haiku published in Kokako 12 (April 2010). Judge is Karen Peterson Butterworth. Entries must be unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere. Send 2 copies of each haiku or group of haiku with your name, adress and e-mail address on 1 copy only.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: $NZ5/every 3 haiku; or $US1/haiku (overseas entrants send cash at their own risk). Make cheques out to "Kokako".
Send entries to: Kokako Haiku & Senryu Competition, 42 Flanshaw Rd, Te Atatu South,Auckland 0610, New Zealand. Inquiries by e-mail to Patricia Prime.
Irish Haiku Society Competition
Cash prizes totalling €230, plus 7 highly commended awards for haiku/senryu of fewer than 17 syllables. Winners announced in early November.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: €3/£2.50/$US4 per haiku; €20/£15/$US25 per 7 haiku.
Full details from the website.
Haiku Presence Award
Cash prizes totalling £200. Winners published in Haiku Presence.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: £5/$US10/€10 for up to 5 haiku; additional entries £1/$US2/€2 per haiku.
Full details from the website, including 2008 winners and judge's report.
Haiku Poets of Northern California
Haiku, senryu and tanka. Cash prizes totalling $US175 in the haiku contest; $US100 in the other categories. Results announced in January and winning poems published in the HPNC journal, Mariposa.
Closes: In hand October 31.
Cost: $US1/poem.
Full details from the website.
James W Hackett Award
Two first prizes of £70 and one year's free subscription to The British Haiku Society. Winning poems will be published in Blithe Spirit and on the BHS website.
Closes: In hand November 30.
Cost: £3/ $US6 for up to 3 haiku; £1/$US2 per haiku thereafter.
Full details from the website where you may also read last year's winners.
HPNC Rengay Contest
First prize of $US100. Winner announced in January and winning poem published in Mariposa, the HPNC membership journal.
Closes: In hand November 30.
Cost: $US5/poem.
Full details from the website.
Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Competition
The winning manuscript will be announced in February 2010. The author will be awarded 10 free copies, plus a contract for 10% royalties on the sale of other copies of the chapbook. The winner will work with the production team on the chapbook design. Send between 12 and 24 pages with 2 haiku/page. An electronic copy is also required.
Closes: December 1.
Cost: $US30.
For full details see the website.
