Lilly Sievers is once again collecting haiku for her ongoing column in the Urasenke Sydney quarterly magazine. She would like to express her gratitude to the many Australian Haiku Society members who have contributed to prior columns and would love to continue featuring contemporary haiku.
Continue reading “Urasenke Sydney Haiku Collaboration”Fleeting Words Tanka Contest 2024
You’re invited to submit your tanka in May to The United Haiku and Tanka Society (UHTS) 2024 Fleeting Words Tanka Contest. Submissions are open from 1 May to 31 May 2024. Entry is free for up to ten tanka.
The winning tanka will be featured in late June 2024 on the UHTS website along with the judges’ commentary.
For guidelines and submission details, please visit the UHTS webpage.
Paperbark Haiku holding an Autumn Ginko on 3rd May
Meet at 10am on Friday 3rd May at Afendi’s Coffee, 162 Colin Street, West Perth, within sight of the City West station. Bring pen and paper, hat, sun protection, water, a haiku book to swap or give away and your haiku mind. After meeting we will walk a short distance to Henry Boas Gardens, write, then return to Afendi’s to review.
Contact: Coral Carter (coralacarter@gmail.com)
A reminder that submissions close at the end of April for Issue 13 of Echidna Tracks Australian Haiku
Submissions for Issue 13 of Echidna Tracks are open until the end of April. Please send us your best haiku. This collection is important because we aim at our regional group of haiku writers and present haiku that reflect our identity. Although we publish haiku with our distinctive flora and fauna, it is not about Australian animals. It is about our experience of living in Australia and our experience of life from our point of view. Australia is a vibrant, cosmopolitan and multicultural nation, and we strive to reflect that.
Please make submissions via our website. Submissions
Report on 5th Gadigal Ginko
16th April 2024
The fifth Gadigal Ginko took place on the eve on International Haiku Poetry Day. Nine poets gathered outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in front of the new building: Gavin Austin, Gwen Bitti, Subha Goonaratne, Marilyn Humbert, Margaret Mahony, Alison Miller, Leanne Mumford, Jan O’Loughlin and Tom Staudt.
Continue reading “Report on 5th Gadigal Ginko”Haiku Writing Workshop by Alice Wanderer
The Melbourne Poets Union presents Haiku and the Seasons Writing Workshop, by Alice Wanderer, Sunday 9 June, 2024 11:00am.
This workshop is aimed at anyone interested in learning to write haiku or in deepening their understanding of it. It will focus on the English Language haiku tradition and Japanese haiku intersect.
Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra
Thursday 11 April, 2024
A table beneath the trees on an autumn day in Canberra—what more could our little band of poets desire for a haiku lunch meeting?
Seeking ‘rhubarb’ poems for public display
Jenny Macaulay, of the Portarlington Haiku Society, is offering a unique opportunity. The Bellarine Historical Society (Victoria) is holding a fundraising day (expected to be 6th July) called ‘Rhubarb Rhubarb.’ It involves a baking competition, including relish/chutney, etc and an art competition for local artists. In amongst the exhibits Jenny would like to display haiku related to rhubarb and is calling for contributions. The haiku will be displayed along with the author’s name. It is purely for fun, and to promote haiku awareness.
If you have rhubarb haiku you’d like to contribute, please use the AHS Contact Secretary form to be put in touch with Jenny by email.
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