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Jack Stamm Haiku Award
Cash prizes totalling $A275 with a competition anthology (1 copy free to each author selected). Results will be published in paper wasp in June, and the anthology in July.
Closes: February 1 (because of the delay in updating the website, late entries will be received for a week).
Cost: $A10/ $US10 for each sheet of 3 haiku.
Full details from the website.
The Betty Drevniok Award
Cash prizes totalling $C175 with the top 11 haiku distributed with the Haiku Canada Anthology. Limit of 3 haiku per person. Winners will be announced in May.
Closes: February 14.
Cost: $US5 (outside Canada) for up to 3 haiku.
Full details from the website (last year's details).
Free XpresSion Haiku Contest
1 page of 4 haiku represents 1 entry. Cash prize of $A100 for the best, single haiku. For writers of other forms and styles, there are also categories for short stories, traditional rhyming poetry, free verse and articles/essays. Results published in the May issue of Free XpresSion.
Closes: February 28.
Cost: $A5/entry or $A25 for 6 entries. Payment is able to be made via PayPal.
Full details from this website.
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.
Deadline: In hand February 28.
Cost: $US10/manuscript.
Full details from the website, including past winners.
Ito En Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest
Cash prizes (in yen), green tea products and inclusion in an anthology. Winning haiku will appear on Oi Ocha product packaging from September; results announced in July. Entrants are encouraged to "express themselves freely". Limit of 6 haiku.
Closes: February 29.
Cost: Free.
For full details see the website.
Maths Haiku Competition
The contest forms part of the Day of Mathematics, to be launched by the Mathematics Institute of Japan on March 14 (because 3.14 = pi). Poems should be unpublished, original and not under consideration elsewhere. There are prizes (unspecified), including for schools and families, as well as individuals. Haiku should be related to maths, arithmetic and numbers. Entries will be evaluated by the Haiku International Association.
Closes: February 29.
Cost: Free.
Any questions should be addressed to the organiser, Mitsuru Hosobe. Send entries via this webpage or Tweet to @hosobe3260.
Vladimir Devide Haiku Award
Named for the Croatian haiku poet who died in 2010. Winners receive book prizes. Limit 1 haiku. The winners will be announced at the LibrAsia conference in Osaka from April 4-8 and then posted on the website.
Closes: March 1.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Haiku Pen Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US290. Theme of spring/summer.
Closes: March 1.
Cost: $US3/haiku or 5 haiku for $US10; it is possible to pay via the website.
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.
Apokolipsa International Haiku Contest
Limit 6 unpublished haiku with "several practical prizes" which will be awarded at a ceremony on September 24 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Winners published in the Apokalipsa journal in the September issue. Judges: Edin Saračević, Silva Trstenjak and Alenka Zorman.
Closes: March 15.
Cost: Free.
Full details from this website. Note: Besides English, entries may also be made in one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
Robert Frost Poetry Contest
First prize is a 2-week residency at the Studios of Key West plus $US200. Other cash prizes total $US150. 5-7-5 haiku only. Poems must contain a seasonal or nature image. Winners announced on April 1.
Closes: March 15.
Cost: $US10 per haiku. It is possible to pay via the website.
Full details from the website.
Jane Reichhold International Prize (UkiaHaiku Festival)
Cash prizes totalling $US175 for the Jane Reichhold International Prize. Limit 3 haiku. The award will be presented at the April 29 festival and winners published.
Closes: Postmarked March 24.
Cost: $US5/up to 3 haiku.
Full details from the website.
Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards
For excellence in published haiku, translation, and criticism. Cash prizes totalling $US650. A list of winners will be published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. Books must have been published in 2011 and clearly must contain a printed 2011©. An author or publisher may submit more than one title.
Closes: In hand by March 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Haiku Magazine Contest
Limit of 6 haiku, 5-7-5 format. 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 from this website.
HaikuNow! Contest
Cash prizes in three categories - traditional, contemporary and innovative - with each first place receiving $US100 and runners-up $25 each. 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 Jane Hirshfield.
Closes: March 31.
Cost: Free.
For full details, including what the category titles mean, see the website.
