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Katikati Haiku Contest 2010

KATIKATI  HAIKU  CONTEST 2010

 

An open theme haiku contest with proceeds going to the Haiku Pathway project.

 

Thanks to Katikati Advertiser for sponsoring the bulk of the cash prizes - 18 & over: $NZ100 for first; $NZ50 for second and $NZ25 for third; 17 & under: $NZ50, $NZ25, $NZ15.

 

 

Rules:

 

·        Poems should preferably be typewritten, otherwise clearly handwritten.

 

·        Haiku should not have been previously published (including on the web or broadcast).

 

·        Unlimited entries.

 

·        Submit 2 copies of each haiku with 1 only including your name, address, phone number (no mobiles, please), e-mail address, and for the junior section only, your age. Putting several poems on an A4 sheet is fine.

 

·        Entry fee: Within NZ: 18 & over $5 for 3 haiku or $2 for 1 haiku. 17 & under $1 for up to 2 haiku. For overseas entrants: $US5/3 haiku or $US2/haiku.

 

·        Entries in hand by Friday, April 16. Post to: Katikati Haiku Contest, PO Box 183, Katikati 3166, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

 

·        Results will be announced and presented on Sunday, June 6.

 

·        A judge’s report will be sent by email, otherwise please include a stamped addressed envelope.

 

·        Any entry not accompanied by the correct entry fee will be disqualified. Entrants send cash at their own risk.

 

Inquiries to nzhaiku@gmail.com 

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Posted by DMG at Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:47:00 GMT | Add Comment

2010 Haiku Pen Contest - 2010 Think Tanka Contest - 2010 Very Short Story Award

For Immediate Release: 1.25.2010

2010 Haiku Pen Contest  -  2010 Think Tanka Contest  - 2010 Very Short Story Award - We Welcome Your Energy, Spirit & Wit

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine is committed to publishing the very best of haiku, senryu and tanka.This young publication has launched writing contests for 2010 and are also witnessing a tremendous growth in their readership and support. Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine is also calling for submissions of poetry and short fiction for their webzine. There are no submission deadlines or reading fees for the e-zine, they just welcome prolific writing of lasting literary value. Complete guidelines are available online at http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com.

Read their inspiring interview with Michael Dylan Welch, one of the most talented haiku and tanka writers today.The web-presence of this E-zine is profound with international winning writers such as Richard Stevenson, Kathy Lippard Cobb, James Tipton, Keith A. Simmonds, Patricia Prime, Paul Smith and Ernest J. Berry.

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine is proud to announce their 2010 Writing Competitions & have published their 2009 Haiku & Tanka Winners. Read the winning poems on their "International Poetry Contest Winners" page. Current prizes for writers total more than $400 dollars. They welcome snail mail and email submissions and have included the option of paypal payments online.

2009 World Haiku Competition Winners: Ernest J. Berry, James Tipton, Barbara A. Taylor & Sandra Simpson

2009 World Tanka Contest Winners: Paul Smith & Kathy Lippard Cobb



Visit Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine to learn more. Make 2010 a year to remember!

Blessings,

Raquel D. BAILEY, Founding Editor lyricalhitmakers@aol.com
Follow us on twitter - "FoundingEditor"
Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine, http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com

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Posted by DMG at Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:19:00 GMT | Add Comment

The Tanka Gourmet - update

The Tanka Gourmet is scheduled to be published as an MET Press trade paperback sometime this year. Alexis Rotella, Editor, is no longer accepting submissions but will be in touch with poets in the near future to obtain proper credit notations.

Alexis Rotella

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Posted by DMG at Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:19:00 GMT | Add Comment

HIDDEN RIVER Haiku now available on Scribd.com

I have published my second collection of haiku, Hidden River, online as a free ebook at http://www.scribd.com/doc/25349226/Hidden-River-Haiku-by-Denis-M-Garrison where you can both read it and download it. Prints editions (trade paperback and pocket book) remain for sale at our MET Press bookstore and elsewhere. I hope you will read Hidden River and even perhaps recommend it to your haiku friends.

best wishes,
Denis M. Garrison
www.themetpress.com

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Posted by DMG at Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:11:00 GMT | Add Comment

3LIGHTS Journal of Haiku & Related Forms: Winter 2010 has been published.

3LIGHTS Journal of Haiku & Related Forms : Winter 2010 has been published. Visit http://3lights.wordpress.com/ to access the new edition. Our featured poet for this debut edition is Michael Dylan Welch.
 
Submissions of haiku and related poems on a theme of 'music' are now being considered for our Spring edition. Details are at http://3lights.wordpress.com/submissions.
 
Best wishes,
Liam Wilkinson 
 
3LIGHTS : Journal of Haiku & Related Forms
Edited by Liam & Diane Wilkinson

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Posted by DMG at Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:01:00 GMT | Add Comment

Update on Moonbathing: A Journal of Women's Tanka

Dear Tanka poets,
 
There has been a few changes in Moonbathing, so, please read carefully the below updated information.
 
I will be the sole editor of Moonbathing from now on and all tanka submissions
should be e-mailed to me and all subscriptions and/or donations should be made out to me and
mailed to my address below.
 
I now have the premier issue of Moonbathing and will be mailing them out to all subscribers this week. Anybody else who would like to purchase a copy(ies), of Moonbathing please let me
know how many you would like to have.
 
In the future, I plan on making Moonbathing a larger all women's tanka journal, so, I can include more tanka by a greater number of fine poets and to expand its international readership.
If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me at:  moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com
 
Hope you had a Joyous Holiday Season &  A Happy New Year.
 
Thank you for supporting Moonbathing.
 
Harmony,   Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing
 
  
UPDATE ON MOONBATHING: A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA
 
EDITOR  Pamela A. Babusci   

Founding Editor Pamela A. Babusci is proud to announce the first all women's tanka journal: Moonbathing.

Moonbathing will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.

For the Premier Issue and yearly (Fall/Winter 2009–10), the Editor is sponsoring a "moonbathing" tanka contest. Tanka poets may submit one tanka on the subject of “moonbathing”—whatever that means to you—for consideration, in addition to their regular submissions. The winner will be featured in the premiere issue of Moonbathing and receive two issues of Moonbathing as the prize. (Be sure to label your entry “moonbathing contest” if sending along with a regular submission.)

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:  

Moonbathing will feature only women poets. Send a maximum of five (5) tanka per submission period. Submission deadlines: 

Fall/Winter Issue: In-hand Deadline: November 1st. Fall/winter or non-seasonal themes only.

Spring/Summer Issue: In-hand Deadline: May 1st. Spring/summer or non-seasonal themes only.

No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line, whether on a personal website/blog or on a tanka discussion group; and no publicly workshopped tanka will be considered or accepted.

 

SUBMISSION ADDRESSES:

Send your tanka IN THE BODY OF AN EMAIL to: Pamela A. Babusci:  moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS. E-mail submissions ONLY.

Moonbathing is seeking to recognize, honor, and praise the unique "female voice" and perspective in tanka. The Editor is excited about being the first women editor to offer this type of literary venue to female tanka poets, and hope all women poets will feel honored and enthusiastic as well.

 

PAYMENT:

Unfortunately, at this time the Editor will not be able to provide contributors’ copies.
Donations are most welcome.

Due to the current economic situation I hope that all tanka poets who have their work accepted will support Moonbathing by purchasing a copy or a subscription. If Moonbathing is to succeed it will need your support and I will be most grateful for it.  

DISCLAIMER:

Moonbathing does not assume liability for copyright infringement or failure to acknowledge previously published tanka.
 
COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:
 
Subscriptions: $10 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada; $5 for one copy (includes postage). International: $14 U.S. dollars. Make checks—or send cash or international money orders—payable to Pamela A. Babusci to: Moonbathing Editor
150 Milford Street Apt. 13 14515-1810  USA 
These subscription prices will increase for issues three and four
due to the cost of printing and S&H.

The Editor of Moonbathing is looking forward to receiving your best tanka. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Pamela A. Babusci moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com

Respectfully submitted,

Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing

 

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Posted by DMG at Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:17:00 GMT | Add Comment

Tanka Online latest update: Interview with Kala Ramesh by Amelia Fielden.

Tanka Online is pleased to announce our latest update, featuring Indian musician and poet, Kala Ramesh. An interview with Kala by Amelia Fielden, "A Song in the Air: an Indian Musician's Path to Haiku and Tanka," recounts how Kala started writing the Japanese forms and also how her music background and the Indian concept of rasa shapes her poetry. Rasa, according to Kala, " means the aesthetic emotion — a flavor, the distilled essence of the mood created in the listener’s mind . . . the residue left in our minds after we appreciate a piece of art."  Check out Kala's interview, her inspiring tanka, and also the latest verses of our regulars—Jeanne Emrich, Mariko Kitakubo, Michael McClintock, Maggie Chula, Amelia fielden, and Tom Clausen—at www.tankaonline.com.

 

Warmest wishes for a Happy New Year!

Jeanne Emrich
Tanka Online Webmaster

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Posted by DMG at Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:17:00 GMT | Add Comment

SUBMISSION CALL: 3LIGHTS Spring 2010

SUBMISSION CALL: 3LIGHTS Spring 2010
 
ISSUE THEME: Music
 
We are now accepting submissions of haiku and related forms on a theme of MUSIC for the 3LIGHTS Spring 2010 edition. Please submit up to ten haiku/senryu/tanka/kyoka with a musical theme, along with a brief biography, to threelightsgallery@yahoo.co.uk. The closing date for all submissions is March 1st 2010 - the Spring edition will be published in April.
 
For full submission details, visit http://3lights.wordpress.com/submissions
 
Issue 1 of the 3LIGHTS Journal will be released this month (Jan 2010) at http://3lights.wordpress.com/
 
Best wishes,
Liam Wilkinson
Editor, 3LIGHTS

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Posted by DMG at Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:06:00 GMT | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Issue 3 of Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu & Kyoka has been published

Dear friends,
 
I am delighted to announce that issue 3 of Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu & Kyoka has been published. It is available online, free of charge, at http://prunejuice.wordpress.com.
 
The Winter 2010 edition features new poems from the likes of Sanford Goldstein, Alexis Rotella, M. Kei, Denis M. Garrison, George Swede, Patricia Prime and many other superlative writers of senryu and kyoka. I would like to thank all those writers who submitted work for issue 3 and invite you all to submit again in time for our summer 2010 edition, to be released in July.
 
Submission details for the next edition of Prune Juice can be found at our website - http://prunejuice.wordpress.com. The deadline is May 1st 2010.
 
Please spread this information widely, and thanks again for all your support.
 
Best wishes for 2010,
Liam Wilkinson
Editor, Prune Juice
 

 

Prune Juice

Journal of Senryu & Kyoka

 Edited by Liam Wilkinson

http://prunejuice.wordpress.com/

 

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Posted by DMG at Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:59:00 GMT | Add Comment

Haibun Today, the Blog, Goes Quarterly

Haibun Today, the Blog, Goes Quarterly

 

Call for Submissions

 

Haibun Today—First Quarterly Issue, March 2010

 

 

 

Haibun Today, a literary blog devoted to the promotion of haibun since 2007, will become an online quarterly webzine in 2010 with issues in March, June, September and December. You can now find Haibun Today at www.haibuntoday.com as well as at its original haibuntoday.blogspot.com address.  Full access to the Haibun Today archives will continue to be available via either site.

 

You are invited to submit haibun for consideration in the March 2010 issue of Haibun Today. You can consult our Submission Guidelines at Haibun Today. Forward any submissions by email to Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, at haibun.today@gmail.com.

 

Thank you for sharing this call widely.

 

Sincerely,

Jeffrey Woodward, Editor

Haibun Today
www.haibuntoday.com

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Posted by DMG at Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:04:00 GMT | Add Comment
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