Touchstone
Book Awards
The award is open to books, both print and e-books, published in the calendar year 2026.
Closes: December 31 (postmark).
Cost: Free.
For full details see the website.
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Polish International Haiku Competition
Limit 1 haiku in English. Three-line poems only, with a kigo and in the short-long-short pattern. Judge is Lech Szeglowski (with pre-selection). Results announced by November 30.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details, and an entry form, from the website.
Capitale de la
Haibun Contest
Held to honour the centenary of poet Paul Éluard’s Capitale de la douleur. Cash prizes totalling $US150. The contest is for experimental haibun on the theme of “pain and/or love and loss”. This could be personal, historical, social, romantic, etc. Judges are Colleen M. Farrelly, Bryan Rickert, and Rowan Beckett Minor. Winners notified by December 15.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Irish Haiku Society Competition
Cash prizes totalling €300, plus 7 highly commended awards. Winners announced in January. Judge is Anatoly Kudryavitsky.
Closes: December 31.
Cost: €3/£2.50/$US3 per haiku; or €20/£17/$US20 per 7 haiku.
Full details from the website.
Touchstone
Poem Awards
Open to any haiku/senryu published during 2026. 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 one haiku/senryu published during 2026 may nominate 2 poems, one of which may be their own. Results announced April 17, 2027.
Closes: December 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details, including an entry form, from the website.
Touchstone
Haibun Awards
Open to any haibun published during 2026. Two haibun may be nominated, one of which may be your own. Nominated haibun must have been published for the first time in 2026 and may have appeared in a book, print or online journal, or the results of a haibun contest. A panel of judges will bestow a number of awards for poems they believe represent a noteworthy addition to English-language haibun. Results announced April 17, 2027.
Closes: December 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details, including the entry form, from the website.
Touchstone
Book Awards
The award is open to books, both print and e-books, published in the calendar year 2026.
Closes: December 31 (postmark).
Cost: Free.
For full details see the website.
Haiku Contests
PJCA Haiku Contest
Limit 1 haiku and/or 1 senryu.
Closes: September 30.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Society of Classical Poets Haiku Contest
Limit 3 haiku in the 5-7-5 format. Poems must contain a seasonal word. One cash prize of $US200. Entry is in the Comments section of the website. Results October 9.
Closes: September 30.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Trailblazer Contest
Limit 1 solo zuihitsu and/or 1 collaborative zuihitsu. More about contemporary English-language zuihitsu on the website.
Closes: September 30.
Cost: Free.
For full details see the website.
Penumbra Haiku Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US200, plus publication of the top haiku in the Seven Hills Review. Finalists notified by November 30 with winners announced in December.
Closes: October 15.
Cost: $US15 ($US10 for TWA members).
Full details from the website.
Haiku Crush Anthology
Cash prizes totalling $US500. Unpublished and previously published work accepted. Winners announced during January. The online anthology will comprise 50 haiku selected from entries.
Closes: October 18.
Cost: $US9 for every 4 haiku.
Full details from the website.
RIK Haiku Contest
Limit 1 haiku. Results announced December 1.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the FB page.
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.
Basho-an International English Haiku Contest
For 2-3-line haiku, up to 10 may be entered. Winners notified at the end of January 2027. There will be a contest anthology and winning poems will be published on the website. Note the copyright restriction. Judges are Kai Hasegawa, Naoko Fujita and Dhugal J. Lindsay.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Polish International Haiku Competition
Limit 1 haiku in English. Three-line poems only, with a kigo and in the short-long-short pattern. Judge is Lech Szeglowski (with pre-selection). Results announced by November 30.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details, and an entry form, from the website.
Capitale de la
Haibun Contest
Held to honour the centenary of poet Paul Éluard’s Capitale de la douleur. Cash prizes totalling $US150. The contest is for experimental haibun on the theme of “pain and/or love and loss”. This could be personal, historical, social, romantic, etc. Judges are Colleen M. Farrelly, Bryan Rickert, and Rowan Beckett Minor. Winners notified by December 15.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Irish Haiku Society Competition
Cash prizes totalling €300, plus 7 highly commended awards. Winners announced in January. Judge is Anatoly Kudryavitsky.
Closes: December 31.
Cost: €3/£2.50/$US3 per haiku; or €20/£17/$US20 per 7 haiku.
Full details from the website.
Touchstone
Poem Awards
Open to any haiku/senryu published during 2026. 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 one haiku/senryu published during 2026 may nominate 2 poems, one of which may be their own. Results announced April 17, 2027.
Closes: December 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details, including an entry form, from the website.
Touchstone
Haibun Awards
Open to any haibun published during 2026. Two haibun may be nominated, one of which may be your own. Nominated haibun must have been published for the first time in 2026 and may have appeared in a book, print or online journal, or the results of a haibun contest. A panel of judges will bestow a number of awards for poems they believe represent a noteworthy addition to English-language haibun. Results announced April 17, 2027.
Closes: December 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details, including the entry form, from the website.
Touchstone
Book Awards
The award is open to books, both print and e-books, published in the calendar year 2026.
Closes: December 31 (postmark).
Cost: Free.
For full details see the website.