Haiku Contests

Paperboats Haiku Contest

Two themed categories: Rewilding and A Future Free of Fossil Fuels. Limit of one 3-line haiku entry in each. £100 cash prize for the winner in each. Winners and HCs published in the Paperboats e-zine. Judge is Kevin MacNeil.
Closes: October 14.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

Penumbra Haiku Contest

Cash prizes totalling $US225 for 5-7-5 format. Finalists notified by November 30 with winners announced in December and published in the Seven Hills Review.
Closes: October 15.
Cost: $US25 for 3 haiku.
Full details from the website.

Triveni Haiku Awards

Limit 2 haiku. Cash prizes (unspecified) for the 3 winners. Results announced December 1.
Closes: October 15
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition 

Details to come. Usually open something like October 15-20.

Basho-an International English Haiku Contest

For 2-3-line haiku, up to 10 may be entered. Winners notified at the end of January 2025. Winning poems will be published on websites and in an anthology next October. Note the copyright restriction. Judges are Kai Hasegawa, Naoko Fujita and Dhugal J. Lindsay.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

Illinois State Poetry Contests

Two categories for haiku (traditional and modern). Cash prizes of $US95 in each category. Limit 1 poem per category. Postal entries only.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: $US20 (covers entry in one or all categories).
Full details from the website.

San Francisco International Competition

Haiku, senryu and tanka. Cash prize of $US100 for the winner in each category. Results announced in January and winning poems published in the Haiku Poets of Northern California journal, Mariposa.
Closes: In hand October 31.
Cost: $US1/poem.
Full details from the website.

Haiku Crush Anthology

Cash prizes totalling $US350. Unpublished and previously published work accepted. Winners announced during January. The online anthology will comprise up to 50 haiku selected from entries.
Closes: November 31.
Cost: $US9 for every 4 haiku.
Full details from the website.

Touchstone Poem Awards

Open to any haiku/senryu published during 2024. A panel of judges will bestow a number of awards for poems they believe represent a noteworthy addition to English-language haiku. Anyone who has had at least 1 haiku/senryu published during 2024 may nominate 2 poems, 1 of which may be their own. Results on April 17, 2025.
Closes: December 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

Touchstone Haibun Awards

Open to any haibun published during 2024. Two haibun may be nominated, one of which may be your own. Nominated haibun must have been published for the first time in 2024. A panel of judges will bestow a number of awards for poems they believe represent a noteworthy addition to English-language haibun. Results on April 17, 2025.
Closes: December 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

 

Touchstone Book Awards

The award is open to print and e-books published in the calendar year 2024.
Closes: December 31 (postmark).
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.