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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

New Zealand / Australia / Austria/ Britain / Canada / Ireland / Japan / Serbia / USA

New Zealand

Bravado:
Is published 3 times a year and may include haiku, along with poetry, short stories and articles.
Submit: To Poetry Editor, email or post to PO Box 13-533, Grey St, Tauranga.
Subscription: $30 (1 year), $55 (2 years).
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, Auckland 8.
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: March 1 (for April publication) and August 1 (for September). 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: To Editor Owen Bullock, 9A Mayfair Place, New Plymouth, email or Editor Patricia Prime, 42 Flanshaw Rd, Te Atatu South, Auckland 8, email
Subscription: $NZ20/year ($US17 for overseas). Cheque/money order to editors.

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 more details see the website.

FreeXpresSion:
Published monthly and has a haiku section.
Submit: Send up to 5 haiku to Haiku Editor Quendryth Young including your postal address.
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 more 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 more 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 more details see the website.

Britain

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

Haiku Scotland:
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 (who is on sabbatical until September 2008).
Subscription: Free by e-mail.

3LIGHTSGallery:
Posts "exhibitions" 4 times a year online, as well as solo shows.
Submit: For more details see the website.

Canada

Haiku Canada Newsletter:
Published 3 times a year and includes haiku, articles and book reviews. 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).

Ireland

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

Haiku Spirit:
An online bilingual (English and French) haiku journal, which accepts submissions, as well as presenting classical and contemporary Japanese haiku.
Submit: By e-mail to editor Gilles Fabre. For more details see the website.

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

Japan

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

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

Serbia

Haiku Reality:
On-line publication of haiku in English and translated into (or from) Serbian by editor Saša Važic. Also essays, information on groups, etc.
Submit: For more details see the website.

United States

Acorn:
Published twice a year, haiku only. Payment for publication.
Submit: By e-mail. For more 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.
Subscription: One issue $10.

Bottle Rockets:
Published twice a year; also a publishing house.
Submit: By e-mail. For more details see the website.

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

Lynx:
Published 3 times a year online, featuring haiku sequences (solo or with other writers), renga or other symbiotic poems, tanka, tanka sequences, haibun, ghazals, etc. Lynx also accepts articles.
Submit: For more details see the website.

Magnapoets:
Published twice a year online and includes haiku, senryu and tanka (first issue December 2007).
Submit: Up to 5 haiku & senryu (with a short bio) to Matt Morden; up to 5 tanka (with a short bio) to Aurora Antonovic.

Mayfly:
Published twice a year, haiku only. Pays $US10/haiku.
Submit: By e-mail. For more details see the website.

Modern Haiku:
Published 4 times a year and is primarily a paper journal. Pays $US1/haiku or $2/haibun.
Submit: To Lee Gurga, PO Box 69, Lincoln, IL 62656, USA. For more details see the website.

Moonset:
A newspaper published twice a year ($US28 for 2 issues), with a selection published online. Features haiku, senryu, haibun, renku, tanka, haiga, and photographic art.
Submit: By e-mail. For more details see the website.

Riverbed Haiku Journal:
Published 4 times a year online and has an annual print edition ($US40 international).
Submit: For more details see the website.

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

Simply Haiku:
Published 4 times a year online featuring haiku, senryu, tanka, renga and related forms, haibun and haiga, plus articles, interviews, etc.
Submit: At any time via the website.

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

 

The Heron's Nest:
Published 4 times a year online and in an annual paper form ($US20 for NZ). Three-line haiku only.
Submit: For details see the website.

Tinywords:
Published daily online and offers a free e-mailing of the daily haiku.

Submit: For details see the website.


Tundra:
Features poems of 13 or fewer lines, including haiku, senryu, tanka ($US28 for 3 issues outside North America).
Submit: For details see the website.

White Lotus:
Published twice a year ($US20 for 2 issues). Haiku, senryu and tanka, haiga and sumi-e.
Submit: By e-mail. For details see the website.

Wisteria:
Published 4 times a year ($US18 annual), featuring haiku, senryu and tanka.
Submit: For details see the website.

Tanka Publications

Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society:
Members only, but free to join. The attractive website also contains an e-library, tanka history and events.
Submit: For details see the website.

American Tanka:
Appears annually ($US14 for one issue, $US24 for two).
Submit: For details see the website.

Atlas Poetica:
Published twice a year, includes tanka/waka/kyoka and its variants, sets and sequences. Poetry of place.
Submit: For details visit the website or the Modern English Tanka website.

Eucalypt:
Published twice a year ($A35/$US25 annual subscription for NZ). Printed on hanno silk paper and accompanied by an e-newsletter.
Submit: Up to 6 tanka to editor Beverley George; no more than 2 by any one poet will be accepted. For details see the website.

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

Kozue Uzawa's Page:
The co-editor of Gusts has her own page, complete with Hot Wasabi News from the world of tanka. Also poems by contemporary writers.

Modern English Tanka:
Published 4 times a year online, also printed on demand and produced as an annual compilation.
Submit: Up to 40 tanka. For details see the website.

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

Ribbons:
Pblished 4 times a year by the Tanka Society of America ($US35 annual membership). Accepts submissions from non-members.
Submit: For 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 Catherine Mair by email or post to PO Box 62, Katikati.
Subscription: NZPS membership to receive the magazine. For more information see the membership page.

Tanka News:
A website run by Modern English Tanka with news about publications, anthologies, exhibitions, etc.
See it here.

Tanka Online:
Is a help desk for tanka writers, featuring articles, recommended reading and a tanka gallery.
See it here.

The Tanka Journal:
Is the journal of the Japan Tanka Poets Society and has a section in English. Annual membership of $US40 includes two issues.

Haibun Publications

Contemporary Haibun Online:
Published 4 times a year online.
Submit: Up to 3 haibun. For details (which are quite particular) see the website.

Haibun Today:
A regularly updated blog site. Pat Prime is the New Zealand/Australia correspondent. Both unpublished and previously published work accepted.
Submit: For details see the website.

Haiga Publications

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

See Haiku Here:
The website of Japanese artist Kuniharu Shimizu, who has created his first 1000 images, and has now begun his second. Send 10-20 haiku (by e-mail via the website) for consideration. Kuni-san creates digital images to accompany them.

Kuni-san is also the judge of haiga submissions to the World Haiku Association Results posted monthly; all forms of haiga considered.
Submit: For more details see the website.

Modern Haiga:
Publishes continuously throughout the year online, plus an annual book.
Submit: 1-12 high-resolution haiga at a time by e-mail. For full details see the website.

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

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