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Note that many journals publish several styles of writing - haiku, tanka, haibun, etc. These are generally listed under "haiku" so please read all the entries carefully. Specialist publications in styles other than haiku have their own sub-heads (see above).

Haiku

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New Zealand

Bravado:
Includes haiku, tanka and haibun. Submissions accepted only from citizens of New Zealand and Australia (wherever they may be in the world) or residents of those two countries.
Submit: Full details from the website.

Haiku News:
Is published daily (or as often as they have submissions), using haiku that reflect world events. "Serious haiku only please."
Submit: To editors Dick Whyte and Laurence Stacey. 
Full details from the website.

Kiwihaiku:
Is published every 2 months in the NZ Poetry Society magazine, a fine line. Haiku should have a distinct New Zealand flavour.
Submit: At any time to Editor Patricia Prime, email or post to 42 Flanshaw Rd, Te Atatu South, Waitakere 0610
Subscription: NZPS membership to receive the magazine. For more information see the membership page.

Kokako:
Is published twice a year, and includes haiku, senryu, tanka, renga and related forms. Deadline: February 1 (for April publication) and July 1 (for October). Submit preferably by snail mail (including SAE and 1 IRC for overseas submissions). Email submissions are acceptable only in the body of the email and not as an attachment.
Submit: By email to either editor; or post to Editor Joanna Preston, 6 Ballantyne Ave, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041; or Editor Patricia Prime, 42 Flanshaw Rd, Te Atatu South, Auckland 8.
Subscription: $NZ20/year ($US17 for overseas). Cheque/money order to Patricia Prime.

Valley MicroPress:
Is published 10 times a year, welcomes all forms of short poetry.
Submit: At any time to Editor Tony Chad or post to: 165A Katherine Mansfield Drive, Whiteman's Valley, Upper Hutt.
Subscription: $30 a year. Cheque to the editor. For full details, including overseas subscription rates, email the Editor.

Australia

Famous Reporter:
Published twice a year, and includes haiku and senryu (no tanka). Small payment.
Submit: PO Box 368, North Hobart 7002, Tasmania, Australia. No e-mail submissions. For full details see the website.

FreeXpresSion:
Published monthly and has a haiku section.
Submit: Send up to 5 haiku to Haiku Editor Cynthia Rowe including your postal address, or write to 46 Fletcher Street, Woollahra, NSW 2025, Australia.
Subscription: $A66 (airmail overseas, 12 issues); $A36 (6 issues). Complimentary copy on first inclusion. Send to: The Editor, FreeXpresSion, PO Box 4, West Hoxton NSW Australia 2171.

Paper Wasp:
Published 4 times a year, each issue co-edited by two of its four permanent editors.
Submit: By email. For full details see the website.

Stylus:
Haiku and related forms published twice a year online (January/July). Send a maximum of 5 haiku, 3 tanka or 2 haibun.
Submit: To Haiku Editor Duncan Richardson. For full details see the website.

Austria

Chrysanthemum:
Published twice a year online in both German and English and includes haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Britain

Haiku Scotland:
A free email journal published 5 times a year, and includes haiku, senryu and tanka. See reviews of past issues here.
Submit: Send up to 8 poems to editor Frazer Henderson.

Ink Sweat & Tears:
Is an e-zine (electronic magazine) with a section of haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga.
Submit: For full details see the website. Look in the left-hand menus for the section you want.

Presence:
Published 3 times a year, and includes haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and renga.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Time Haiku:
Published twice a year, deadline end of October, end of February. £12/$US25 for 2 issues (outside Britain) including two editions of the Time Haiku Newsletter and the annual Tanka Pool.
Submit: To editor Diana Webb by e-mail. For reviews of past copies go to this website.

Canada

Daily Haiku:
Appears daily on-line and an in annual print anthology, but submissions are accepted twice a year only.
Submit: For full details, which are quite precise, see the website. 

Haiku Canada Newsletter:
Published 3 times a year and includes haiku. Open to non-members (membership is $C25/year).
Submit: By e-mail to Editor LeRoy Gorman, or post to 51 Graham West, Napanee, Ontario, Canada K7R 2J6. For full details see the website (scroll down the page a little).

India

Ayush:
The journal of the International Haiku Association of India. 
Submit: By e-mail.

Taj Mahal Review:
Published twice a year, includes haiku and artworks.
Submit: Up to 10 haiku by e-mail with a declaration that the work is original and your own to Editor Dr Santosh Kumar. Full details from this website.

International

Lishanu:
Is an online bilingual journal (English and one other language) for hainku/senryu, haibun, reknu and haiga.
Submit: For full details see the website. (Note that although the masthead says "2005", the submissions information is dated "2010" at the bottom.) 

Notes From the Gean:
Is an on-line journal for haiku, tanka and haiga; published 4 times a year.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Simply Haiku:
Published 4 times a year online, featuring haiku, tanka, haibun, haiga.
Submit: For full details see the website. If you aren't able to easily download a pdf, you may also read the archives here.

World Haiku Review:
Published 4 times a year online, includes haiku, haiga and haibun.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Ireland

Haiku Ireland:
Non-members may submit haiku. The website also contains an informative quarterly newsletter (pdf format).
Submit: For full details see the website.

Haiku Spirit:
An online bilingual (English and French) journal.
Submit: By e-mail to editor Gilles Fabre. For full details see the website.

Shamrock:
The quarterly online journal of the Irish Haiku Society featuring haiku, senryu and haibun.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Japan

Asahi Haikuist Network:
Twice-monthly English-language column in a bi-lingual newspaper.
Submit: Haiku for the season to David McMurray. For full details see the website.

Ginyu:
Published 4 times a year with an English section. A selection is published online.
Submit: By e-mail to Editor Ban'ya Natsuishi. For full details see the website.

Mainichi Daily News:
An English-language daily newspaper which publishes an online monthly selection of haiku.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Netherlands

Whirligig:
Bilingual Dutch/English and other languages translated into Dutch; haiku, senryu and "short" haibun. Published twice a year.
Submit: Full details from this website.

Serbia

Haiku Reality:
Published online only.
Submit: For full details see the website.

United States

Acorn:
Published twice a year, haiku only. Payment for publication.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Ambrosia:
Published 4 times a year in print and as an e-book, specialising in "traditional haiku".
Submit: For full details see the website.

Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant:
Published once a year (about), includes experimental haiku. Issues are handmade and feature 5 poets only (30 haiku each). Send 50-100 haiku at a time.
Submit: By e-mail to editor Chris Gordon or post to PO Box 3158, Eugene, OR 97403-0158, USA.

Berry Blue Haiku:
Published 4 times a year and is a journal for young readers, welcoming submissions (poems, haiga, articles, puzzles, etc).
Submit: For full details see the website.

Bottle Rockets:
Published twice a year; also a publishing house.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Concise Delight:
Published twice a year online, specialising in poems from 1 to 9 lines long.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Frogpond:
The journal of the Haiku Society of America; accepts submissions from non-members.
Submit: For full details see the website

Haijinx:
Published 4 times a year online.
Submit: For full details see the website. 

Lynx:
Published 3 times a year online, featuring haiku sequences, renga or other "symbiotic poems", tanka, tanka sequences, haibun, ghazals, etc.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Magnapoets:
Published twice a year online and in paper form, includes haiku, senryu and tanka.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Masks:
Published online as part of Roadrunner journal. Submittors must use pen names only - one writer may use several haigo (noms-de-plume).
Submit: For full details see the Roadrunner website.

Mayfly:
Published twice a year, haiku only. Pays $US10/haiku.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Modern Haiku:
Published 4 times a year and is primarily a paper journal. Pays $US1/haiku or $2/haibun.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Riverbed Haiku Journal:
Published 4 times a year online and has an annual print edition.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Roadrunner Haiku Journal:
Published 4 times a year online and includes haiku, senryu, haiga and haibun.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Sketchbook:
Published monthly online featuring all short forms and including rengay and haiga.
Submit: For full details see the website.

The Electronic Poetry Network:
Publishes a set of haiku each week.
Submit: For full details see the website.

 

The Heron's Nest:

Published 4 times a year online and in an annual paper form. Three-line haiku only.
Submit: For full details see the website.

 

Tinywords:

Is published daily and includes haiku/tanka.
Submit: For full details see the website.
 

Two Dragonflies:

A website featuring haiku for and by children.
Submit: For full details see the website.


 

Senryu

 

Prune Juice:

Publishes online twice a year.
Submit: For full details see the website.

 

Tanka Publications

Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society:
Members only, but free to join.
Submit: For full details see the website.

American Tanka:
Published twice a year.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Atlas Poetica:
Published three times a year, tanka/waka/kyoka and its variants, sets and sequences. Poetry of place.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Eucalypt:
Published twice a year. Printed on hanno silk paper.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Gusts:
Published twice a year by Tanka Canada ($US25 for annual membership). Members only.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Modern English Tanka:
In hiatus for 2009, promises to relaunch in 2010. 

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose:
See the Haibun listing below.

Moonbathing, a Journal of Women's Tanka:
Published twice a year, accepting work from women only. Send poems applicable to the (northern) autumn/winter and spring/summer. No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that have been posted on-line, whether on a personal website/blog or on a tanka discussion group; and no publicly workshopped tanka will be considered or accepted.
Submit: Up to 5 poems, in-hand by May 1 or November 1.
Subscription: $US10/year US & Canada; $US14 elsewhere. Payment and submissions to editor Pamela A. Babusci.

Red Lights:
Published twice a year; also accepts tanka sequences and tan-renga.
Submit: Up to 10 poems. For full details see the website.

Ribbons:
Published 4 times a year by the Tanka Society of America. Accepts submissions from non-members.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Rusty Tea Kettle:
Published 4 times a year online.
Submit: Up to 10 poems. For full details see the website.

Tanka Moments:
Published bi-monthly in the NZ Poetry Society magazine, a fine line.
Submit: 1-2 tanka at any time to Patricia Prime by email or post to 42 Flanshaw Rd, Te Atatu South, Waitakere 0610
Subscription: NZPS membership to receive the magazine. For more information see the membership page.

Haibun Publications

Contemporary Haibun Online:
Published 4 times a year online.
Submit: For full details (quite particular) see the website.

Haibun Today:
Published quarterly. Previously published work accepted.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose:
Published twice a year in paper and on-line.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Haiga Publications

DailyHaiga:
Submit: For full details see the website.

Haiga Online:
Published twice a year online. Submissions should be relevant to the northern seasons.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Kuniharu Shimizu is the judge of haiga submissions to the World Haiku Association Results posted monthly; all forms of haiga considered.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Reeds Contemporary Haiga:
An annual online anthology. The deadline for each anthology is February 1.
Submit: For full details see the website.

Renku Publications

Journal of Renga & Renku:
The first edition will be out towards the end of 2010 and available in hard copy only (although may be purchased online). Submit articles, translations of old renga and renku, news, book reviews and poems. Work may have been previously published and in any of the standard forms; solo or group work.
Submit: Email editors Norman Darlington and Moira Richards here.

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