Haiku Contests
Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US175 for haiku in 5-7-5 pattern. Each haiku must use one kigo (season word) from the contest list. Haiku with more than 1 listed kigo, or that do not use a listed kigo will be disqualified.
Closes: April 30. Extended to May 15.
Cost: $US8/3 haiku.
For full details, including the kigo, see the website.
Virtual Japan Fair
Haiku Contest
Limit 2 haiku. Winners announced on June 27 and winning poems published on the website. Judge is Michael Dylan Welch.
Closes: May 24.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
George Klacsanzky
Memorial Haiku Contest
Limit 3 haiku. Cash prizes totalling $US250. Judge is Michael Dylan Welch.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
NZPS 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. Judge is Graham Bates.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: $NZ4/haiku or $NZ17 for 5 haiku ($NZ2.50/haiku or $12.50/5 haiku for NZPS members).
Full details from the website (click on ‘enter here’ and then see the dropdown menu for the Guidelines).
NZPS Junior
Haiku Contest
Open to entrants 17 years or younger on May 31, 2026.
Primary/intermediate: 3 prizes of $NZ50; Secondary: 3 prizes of $NZ50. Plus one of the first-placed haiku will also receive the Jeanette Stace Memorial Prize of $NZ100. Schools may send bulk entries, but poems must be clearly attributed. Winners in the NZPS annual anthology. Judge is Sandra Simpson.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: $1/haiku.
Full details from the website (click on ‘enter here’ and then see the dropdown menu for the Guidelines).
HSA Garry Gay
Rengay Award
Cash prizes totalling $US450. Open only to 2- or 3-person entries. The winning linked-verse poem will be published in Frogpond and on the HSA website.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: $US5/poem.
Full details from the website.
Star Haiku Contest
Limit 1 haiku on the theme of ‘stars’ with an international section for English-language haiku. Results announced on July 5.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Sanford Goldstein
Tanka Contest
Limit 4 tanka. Cash prizes totalling $US175 with winning poems published in Ribbons, the Tanka Society of America journal. Winners announced in August. Judges are Jackie Chou and David Rice. One entrant will receive a year of free membership to TSA in a lucky draw.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Peggy Willis Lyles
Haiku Award
Cash prizes totalling $US350 and books. Limit 2 haiku. Results announced July 31.
Closes: June 1.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
Limit 2 haiku. Winning poems celebrated in various ways, including appearing on the VCBF website.
Closes: June 1.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Hexapod Haiku Challenge
Limit 3 haiku inspired by insects (or spiders or millipedes or other related arthropods). Winning haiku published on the website of the Frost Entomological Museum at Penn State University and via their social media. 2026 Special Category: Best haiku featuring arthropod recyclers.
Closes: June 15.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Marlene Mountain
Memorial Haiku Contest
For women, trans, and gender-expansive poets only. Limit 2 one-line haiku/senryu. Winners will appear on the #FemkuMag website. Judges are Rowan Beckett and Vandana Parashar.
Submit: June 1-15.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Radmila Bogojevic Haiku Award
Limit 3 haiku. Winners announced on August 24, the birthday of the late Serbian poet Radmila Bogojevic. Selected haiku will appear in a special publication.
Open: June 22.
Cost: Free.
Full details from this website (use Google translate if necessary)
HSA Senryu Award
Cash prizes totalling $US450 with winning poems published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. Limit 5 senryu.
Submit: June 1-30.
Cost: $US7/ entry (discount for HSA members).
Full details from the website.
HSA Haiku Award
Cash prizes totalling $US450 and winning haiku published in Frogpond and on the Haiku Society of America website. Limit 5 haiku.
Submit: June 1-30.
Cost: $US7/ entry (discount for HSA members).
Full details from the website.
HSA Haibun Award
Cash prizes totalling $US450 with winning haibun published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. Limit 3 haibun of no more than 1000 words each. See the website for detailed notes on what is and what is not considered ‘published’.
Submit: June 1-30.
Cost: $US7/ entry (discount for HSA members).
Full details from the website.
Triveni Haiku Awards
Limit 2 haiku. Cash prizes (unspecified) for the 3 winners. Judges Billie Dee and Vandana Parashar. Results announced September 12.
Open: June 10-30.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website (link added when available)
Vladimir Devidé
Haiku Award
Limit 1 haiku. The winner, runners up and those commended by the jury, will receive diplomas and their work will be published as a limited edition almanac. Results August 22. Judges Dr Drago Štambuk, Tomislav Maretić and Nikola Đuretić.
Closes: July 3.
Cost: Free.
Full details from this page.
Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest
Limit of 10 haiku. Results are announced on October 12 to mark the death anniversary of Basho. Please note the entry condition that copyright will remain with the sponsors.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards
For unpublished short collections of short poems, including haiku, tanka and haibun. Winners will have their collections published online by Snapshot Press (UK). Winners announced on September 30.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: £15/$US20 per entry.
Full details from the website.