Berry Blue Haiku is a quarterly digital magazine focusing on haiku for kids of all ages. In each issue, we will bring you contests, articles, lessons, as well as puzzles with haiku/senryu related-fun.

If you are a writer or an illustrator, please familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines before submitting.

If you still have questions after reviewing our guidelines, please contact us at berrybluehaiku (at) gmail (dot) com (email must be formatted properly to function).

Our first issue is due out in June 2010. 

Berry Blue Haiku Author Guidelines

Illustrator guidelines can be found at: http://cobaltcrowproductions.blogspot.com 

We are open to all types of haiku: traditional with a seasonal word (kigo), modern, human haiku (often called senryu), or fun haiku.

Our general definition of haiku is a two- or three-line poem that transmits a moment or feeling through sensory images. A haiku often paints different/contrasting images, or leaves the reader with an a-ha! moment.

We would also love to see articles on writing haiku/senryu; on their history; or on haiku masters such as Basho, Chiyo-ni, Issa, Shiki, and Buson, etc. If it relates to haiku/senryu in any way, we'd love to see it.

Other things we'd like to see:

• Haiku lessons/exercises that could be used in classrooms or at home
• Advice and tips on writing haiku
• Crafts incorporating haiku, such as bookmarks, gift tags, postcards, etc. Please include photos if possible.
• Haiku projects for gift ideas
• Puzzle pages incorporating haiku (we're quite open to this—use your imagination)

Submission Requirements

• Send up to five poems, or one article/craft/puzzle page per submission, pasted in the body of your email.
• Please indicate in your cover letter if your submission is simultaneous, and notify us immediately if another publication accepts it.
• For articles longer than 250 words, please double-space.
• Please specify the age level of your poems, articles, and lessons.
• We prefer to review unpublished material, but will consider reprints. Please indicate in your cover letter where and when the submission first appeared.
• We ask that you wait for a response before submitting to us again.
• Format your subject title with either Haiku/Senryu (haiku is fine for either) or Article/Craft/Puzzle Submission and if it is season-themed. ex: Haiku Submission—Winter Themed
• Send your submissions to berrybluehaiku (at) gmail (dot) com (email will need to be formatted properly to be functional).

Nonfiction Submissions Length

children up to 5:  50 - 150 words
6 -11 year olds:    150 to 500 words
12 and up:              500 to 1000 words

Response times

We will do our best to respond to all submissions within two weeks. Response time will be longer on submissions under consideration.

Subscribe to our blog at http://cobaltcrowproductions.blogspot.com/ for more up-to-date information about submissions such as what we need, what we have overstocked, delays in response times, etc.

You may also subscribe to our Twitter feed at: http://twitter.com/cobaltcrowpub.

Rates

All contributors will receive free access to the issue in which their work appears. (Note that for the first issue, which will be available to everyone, contributors will also receive free access to the Berry Blue Haiku September 2010 issue).

We currently do not pay for haiku; however, our three favorite haiku will each receive $10.00 US, payable by PayPal ONLY. If the contributor does not have access to PayPal, we will send a gift certificate from Amazon.com for the same amount.

We pay a flat rate of $10.00 per article/lesson/craft/puzzle page.

Terms

Berry Blue Haiku acquires Exclusive Worldwide Electronic Rights for three months, and then Non-Exclusive Electronic Rights for an additional nine months while the issue is in the archives.

Look for the first issue of Berry Blue Haiku in June 2010.
If you have any questions, ideas or comments, please email us at: berrybluehaiku (at) gmail (dot) com

Gisele LeBlanc
Owner & Executive Editor
Berry Blue Haiku Magazine
Cobalt Crow Productions

http://cobaltcrowproductions.blogspot.com/

 ==============================================

Hi, haiku-friends!  This pub is for kids, so please generously spread this call for subs around the haiku community.
Thanks!
Denis Garrison, Tanka News & Haiku Headlines