Publications
Haiku publications (or haiku + other forms)
NEW ZEALAND
Haiku Zoo:
Published twice a year online, for poems of fewer than 16 lines by authors aged 20 years or younger.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Kokako:
Is published twice a year, and includes haiku, senryu, tanka, renga and related forms. Deadline: Reading periods November 1- February 1 (for April publication) and May 1- July 1 (for September). Submit preferably by email, sending 1 submission of up to 8 pieces in the body of the email (no attachments). A word count of 400 is preferred for haibun. Reviews: no more than 600 words including title, publication details and quoted poems. No simultaneous submissions.
Submit: By email or post to Patricia Prime, 42 Flanshaw Rd, Te Atatu South, Auckland 0610, New Zealand.
Subscription: New Zealand $34/year; Australia $36/year. Rest of the world, please inquire. Email for payment details.
AUSTRALIA
Creatrix:
Published 4 times a year online.
Submit: Full details from the website (scroll down).
Echidna Tracks:
Published twice a year online, a haiku a day until the set is complete. Each issue has a theme and haiku must be “relevant to Australia”.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Free XpresSion:
Published monthly as a pdf for subscribers, includes a section for haiku and haibun.
Submit: Send up to 5 haiku to Haiku Editor Cynthia Rowe including your postal address, or write to 46 Fletcher Street, Woollahra, NSW 2025, Australia.
Subscription: For details email the editor, Peter Pike.
AFRICA
The Mamba:
Published twice a year by the Africa Haiku Network. Submissions welcome from poets outside Africa.
Submit: Full details from the website.
BRITAIN
Ardea:
Published online only, in all languages (with translations into or from English) and includes haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, haibun and renku.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Blithe Spirit:
Published 4 times a year, principally a journal for members of the British Haiku Society.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Hedgerow:
Published in print once a quarter, includes haiku, senryu and tanka.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Ink Sweat & Tears:
Published online with a section of haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga.
Submit: Full details from the website. Look in the right-hand menu for “Haibun, Haiku & Haiga”.
Leaf-fall:
Published twice a year in print. Submit from April 15-May 15 and October 15-November 15. Annual subscription (2 issues): £10 outside UK (postage included). All payments via PayPal.
Submit: To editor Akira Yagami.
Pan Haiku Review:
Each issue will have a theme.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Presence:
Published three times a year, and includes haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and renga.
Submit: Full details from the website.
The Bamboo Hut:
Published 3 times a year online, describes itself as a journal of tanshi (traditional, contemporary and experimental haiku, senryu, tanka, gogyoshi, sedoka, dodoitsu, ryuka, monostitch and any other variation) for poetry 1-6 lines long.
Submit: Full details from the website.
The Zen Space:
Published 4 times a year online.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Time Haiku:
Published twice a year, deadline end of April, end of October. £12/$US25 for 2 issues (outside Britain) including two editions of the Time Haiku Newsletter and the annual Tanka Pool.
Submit: To editor Diana Webb by e-mail. See the Facebook page.
Wales Haiku Journal:
Published 4 times a year online. At present for haiku and senryu.
Submit: Full details from the website.
CANADA
Haiku Canada Review:
Published twice a year and includes haiku. Open to non-members (membership is $C25/year).
Submit: Full details from the website.
Never Ending Story:
For haiku and tanka. All poems translated into “Chinese” by editor Chen-ou Liu and published on the blog and Twitter. Annual e-book anthologies produced – Butterfly Dream (haiku) and One Man’s Maple Moon (tanka).
Submit: Full details from the website.
EUROPE
bones – journal of the short poem:
Published twice a year online, includes haiku, haibun and some art.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Chrysanthemum:
German/English journal, published twice a year. For haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, tanka prose and haiga.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal:
Romanian/English, published online.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Haiku Spirit:
An online bilingual (English and French) site to share your haiku (not a journal any longer).
Submit: For full details see the website.
Kontinuum:
Published twice a year online, for haiku of all types, haiku sequences and essays.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Poetry Pea:
Monthly online journal and podcast. English-language only.
Submit: Full details from the website.
seashores:
Published twice a year in print for haiku/senryu and essays.
Submit: Full details from the website.
INDIA
HaikuKatha:
Published monthly online. For haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, etc., written using a weekly prompt.
Submit: See the journal here. Find the weekly prompts here.
Sonic Boom:
Published online three times a year for “writing that explodes”. The Paper Lanterns section features haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun. Haiga may fit the Visual Art category.
Submit: Full details from the website.
The Sunflower Collective:
includes haiku and tanka.
Submit: At any time, see the website for details.
Taj Mahal Review:
Published twice a year, includes haiku and artworks.
Submit: Full details from the website.
INTERNATIONAL
cattails:
Published twice a year online for haiku/senryu, tanka, haibun and haiga.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Heliosparrow:
Published online ‘at least monthly’. The journal is an offshoot of Haiku Sanctuary, an online forum.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Living Haiku Anthology:
An ongoing collection of work in poet ‘portfolios’, previously published work and/or winners of significant haiku competitions are fine. All contributions must include full citations including venue, date and URL.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Under the Basho:
Published in an annual form on December 1, includes haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun, etc. Resumed publication 2022.
Submit: From March 1-November 15. Full details from the website.
White Enso:
Online publication, accepts haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga.
Submit: For full details see the website.
World Haiku:
An annual production for members of the World Haiku Association (see membership fees).
Submit: Full details from the website.
World Haiku Review:
Published twice a year online, includes haiku, haiga and haibun.
Submit: Full details from the website.
JAPAN
Asahi Haikuist Network:
Twice-monthly English-language column in a bi-lingual newspaper.
Submit: Haiku on a theme to editor David McMurray. Full details from the website.
Icebox:
For haiku, haiqua, senryu, tanka, or (short) haibun or renga. See the bottom of the header menu for how to submit
Submit: Through the website.
Mainichi Daily News:
An English-language daily newspaper which publishes online a selection of haiku. Note the copyright restriction.
Submit: Full details from the website.
NOON: journal of the short poem:
Published online once a year.
Submit: Full details from the website.
UNITED STATES
Acorn:
Published twice a year, haiku only.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Akitsu Quarterly:
Published 4 times a year, haiku, haibun, haiga and brushwork.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Ant5:
Published online. Send 20-30 haiku at a time. See the journal here.
Submit: By e-mail to editor Chris Gordon.
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal:
Published twice a year online. Poems should have an emphasis on feeling connected to nature and, if seasonal, match that issue’s season.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Bottle Rockets:
Published twice a year in print; also a publishing house, accepts haiku, senryu, tanka.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Cold Moon:
Poems published online several times a week. Accepts ‘what you consider to be’ haiku, senryu, tanka.
Submit: Full details from the website (go to the bottom).
#FemkuMag:
Published 4 times years online. Senryu and haiku by women and non-binary people only.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Fireflies’ Light:
Published twice a year online. Haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, haibun.
Submit: Full details from the website.
first frost:
Published twice a year in print for haiku and senryu.
Submit: Full details from the website.
First Literary Review – East:
Published online, looking for poems of 16 lines and fewer.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Frameless Sky:
Published twice a year online and on DVD. Send haiku, senryu, tanka and/or kyoka; linked verses; haiga and tanka art.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Frogpond:
The journal of the Haiku Society of America, published 3 times a year with a sampler online. Accepts submissions from non-members, includes haiku, senryu and renku.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Haiku Commentary:
Published regularly (several per month). Nicholas Klachsanzky writes commentaries for submitted haiku and senryu.
Submit: Full details from the website.
haikuniverse:
Poem published daily online.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Haiku in Action
Publishes haiku and senryu weekly, accepting submissions on a rolling basis. There are also prompts available.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Hedgerow:
Published 4 times a year in print for short poems of all kinds, including haiku, tanka, haiga, etc.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Kingfisher:
Published twice a year in print for haiku and senryu.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Mayfly:
Published twice a year, haiku only. Pays $US10/haiku for snail mail submissions; or a $US10 credit to Brooks Books for email submissions.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Modern Haiku:
Published 3 times a year and is primarily a paper journal. Pays $US5 per printed page or part thereof for essays and longer reviews, and $US10 for each haiga.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Otoroshi:
For horror haiku, tanks and haibun. Published 4 times a year online, small payment to authors.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Pages:
Will consider haiku, tanka, haibun, etc.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Pulse:
For work about health care. Real experiences preferred. For work about health care. Real experiences preferred. Subscribers only may submit, but this is free.
Submit: Full details from the website.
San Diego Poetry Annual:
Published once a year in print and online. Accepts Japanese genre poems.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Shot Glass Journal:
Published three times a year online. For poems of 16 lines and fewer.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Stardust Haiku:
Published monthly online. Each month has a theme.
Submit: Full details from the website.
The Cicada’s Cry:
A micro-zine published 4 times a year plus 2 themed editions a year.
Submit: Full details from the website.
The Heron’s Nest:
Published 4 times a year online and in an annual paper anthology.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Tinywords:
Collections gathered twice a year and then published daily on a rolling basis, includes haiku, tanka and haibun. Paper issues also available.
Submit: Twice a year, full details from the website.
tsuri-dōrō:
Published online six times a year for haiku, senryu and ‘related’.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Whiptail:
Published online four times a year, single-line poems only.
Submit: Full details from the website.
Senryu publications
Failed Haiku – a Journal of English Senryu:
Publishes every month online.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Prune Juice:
On hiatus until the northern summer of 2023. Published 3 times a year online. Includes haibun and linked forms.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Tanka publications
Atlas Poetica:
Published three times a year, tanka/waka/kyoka and its variants, sets and sequences. Poetry of place.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Eucalypt:
Published twice a year. Printed on hanno silk paper.
Submit: For full details see the website. PayPal buttons on the editor’s website.
Gusts:
Published twice a year by Tanka Canada ($US25 for annual membership). Members only.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Moonbathing:
Featuring women poets only, published twice a year, print only, tanka only.
Submit: For full details see this website.
Ribbons:
Published 4 times a year by the Tanka Society of America. Accepts submissions from non-members.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Take 5ive:
Probably monthly online ‘circumstances permitting’ for tanka, gogyohka and gogyoshi.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Haibun publications
Contemporary Haibun Online:
Published 3 times a year online for haibun and tanka prose, also haiga.
Submit: For full details see the website.
drifting-sands-haibun:
Published online, for haibun, tanka prose, and haiku and tanka sequences (no stand-alone poems).
Submit: Full details from the website.
MacQueen’s Quinterly:
Published online 3 times a year and includes haibun, tanka prose and haiga.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Narrow Road:
Published 3 times a year online.
Submit: For full details see the website.
The Haibun Journal:
Published twice a year in print.
Submit: For full details see the website.
The Other Bunny:
Published online as work is accepted. For ‘alternative’ haibun.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Rengay & Sequence publications
Tandem:
Published twice a year online. The Rengay form is explained on the website.
Submit: For full details see the website.
vines:
For collaborative poetry, sequences and linked verse poems (collaborative or solo). Articles welcomed. Submissions on a rolling basis.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Haiga publications
DailyHaiga:
Published daily online.
Submit: For full details see the website.
Frameless Sky:
Published twice a year online. Haiku or tanka with art.
Submit: For full details see the website.
White Enso:
Online publication.
Submit: For full details see the website.