Haiku Contests

Haiku Magazine Contest

Limit of 6 haiku, 5-7-5 format. Results will be published in the (northern) spring/summer issue of Haiku magazine.
Closes: March 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website (scroll down to find English).

High/Coo Chapbook Competition

Winning authors will receive $US100 and 10 copies of their collection. An entry comprises 30-50 haiku/senryu/tanka, poems may have been previously published.
Closes: April 1.
Cost: $US30 (annual subscription to the High/Coo Chapbook series = 3 issues a year).
Full details from the website.

Kaji Aso Studio
Haiku Contest

Cash prizes totalling $US525 for haiku and $US75 for senryu. Winners announced on May 15.
Closes: April 15.
Cost: $US3/ poem.
For full details and past winners see the website.

San Francisco
Haibun Contest

First place receives $US100. Results will be announced at the autumn HPNC meeting and the top three haibun will appear in Mariposa, and the full results, including judges’ comments, will be posted to the HPNC website.
Closes: May 1.
Cost: $US5 for 1-3 haibun.
Full details from the website.

Fleeting Words
Tanka Contest

Results by June 15.
Submit: April 1 -May 15
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

NZPS Junior
Haiku Contest

Open to entrants 17 years or younger on May 31, 2025.

Primary/intermediate: 3 prizes of $NZ50; Secondary: 3 prizes of $NZ50. Plus one of the first-placed haiku will also receive the Jeanette Stace Memorial Prize of $NZ100.  Schools may send bulk entries, but poems must be clearly attributed to authors. Winners will be published in the NZPS annual anthology. Judge is Jenny Fraser.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: $1/haiku.
Full details from the website.

Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest

Cash prizes totalling $US175 for haiku in 5-7-5 pattern. Each haiku must use one kigo (season word) from the contest list.  Haiku with more than 1 listed kigo, or that do not use a listed kigo will be disqualified.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: $US8/3 haiku.
Full details, including the kigo, from the website.

Sanford Goldstein Tanka Contest

Cash prizes totalling $US175 with winning poems published in Ribbons, the Tanka Society of America journal. Limit 4 tanka. Judges are Michael H Lester and Vicki Miko.
Submit: April 1-May 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.

Star Haiku Contest

Limit 1 haiku on the theme of ‘stars’ with an international section for English-language haiku. Results announced mid-June.
Submit: April 1-May 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.