Here you’ll find details of haiku competitions you can enter, publications you can submit to around the world, and groups you may join or reach out to when travelling.

Competitions (see below)

Publications to submit to  : Haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, haiga (click on the link)

Groups : Contact details for haiku groups both within New Zealand and around the world (click on the link).

Learning to Write Haiku : NZPS member Katherine Raine has compiled a brilliant 47-page booklet for those teaching and wanting to teach haiku (includes lesson plans and commentary on exemplar haiku). Click on the link to download a free pdf.

Haiku Checklist : Katherine Raine, the NZPS International Haiku Contest judge for 2018, has prepared a short checklist to ensure that what you’re calling a haiku is, as far as possible, actually a haiku. Useful for anyone new to the form or teaching themselves.

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Competitions

Please remember to check all details – we do our best to ensure accuracy but the responsibility is yours.

Japan Fair Haiku Contest
Limit 2 haiku. Winners announced on July 9 and winning poems published on the website. Judge is Michael Dylan Welch.
Closes: June 16.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

Greg Judkins Poetry Competition
For NZ residents only. Limit 1 haiku on the theme of ‘Connecting: hauora, courage and togetherness’. (Haiku may be going up against other forms of poetry.) Judges Ruth Arnison, Dr Himali McInnes and Dr Greg Judkins. Winners announced July 22 and read out during GP23: the Conference for General Practice in Auckland.
Closes: June 25.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

Sonic Boom Visual Poetry Contest
Limit 3 visual poems (definition includes haiga). Cash prizes for the top 3, their value depends on the number of entries. Winning entries published on the website.
Closes: June 25.
Cost: First poem free, then $US3 for the other one or two.
Full details from the website.

Trailblazer Contest
Limit 2 haiku/senryu (includes multi-ku / woven poems on a single theme but not sequences that link and shift). No winners as such, but a list of selected poems with commentaries and interviews.
Closes: June 30.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

Small Wonders Haiku Contest
Top 10 haiku (3 winners, 7 honorable mentions) receive book awards as described on the sponsor’s website. Entry fees go to the benefit of the Katonah Poetry Series (KPS). Awarded poems will appear on the KPS website. Judge is Scott Mason.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: $10 for each entry of up to 5 haiku (through PayPal). There is no limit to the number of haiku that may be entered, but a separate fee must be paid for each group of 5.
Full details from the website.

Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards
For unpublished short collections of short poems, including haiku, tanka and haibun. Winners will have their collections published online by Snapshot Press (UK). Winners announced on September 30.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: £15/$US20 per entry (it is possible to pay online).
Full details from the website.

Harold G Henderson Haiku Award
Cash prizes totalling $US450 and winning haiku published in Frogpond and on the Haiku Society of America website. Limit 5 haiku.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: $US7/5 haiku ($US5/5 haiku for HSA members).
Full details from the website.

Gerald Brady Memorial Award for Senryu
Cash prizes totalling $US350 with winning poems published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. Limit 5 senryu.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: $US7/5 haiku ($US5/5 haiku for HSA members).
Full details from the website.

HSA Haibun Award
Cash prizes totalling $US450 with winning haibun published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. Limit 3 haibun of no more than 1000 words each. See the website for detailed notes on what is and what is not considered ‘published’. 
Closes: July 31.
Cost: $US7/3 haibun ($US5/3 haibun for HSA members).
Full details from the website. 

Morioka International Haiku Contest
Limit 2 haiku. Results announced November 12. Judges Michael Dylan Welch and Toru Kiuchi.
Closes: August 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.