Haiku Contests
Marlene Mountain
Memorial Haiku Contest
For women, trans, and gender-expansive poets only. Limit 2 one-line haiku/senryu. Winners will appear on the #FemkuMag website. Judges are Rowan Beckett and Vandana Parashar.
Closes: June 15.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Sonic Boom Visual
Poetry Contest
Limit 2 visual poems. Winning entries published on the website. Judges Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith
Closes: June 15.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Hexapod Haiku Challenge
Limit 3 haiku inspired by insects (or spiders or millipedes or other related arthropods). Winning haiku published on the website of the Frost Entomological Museum at Penn State University and via their social media. 2026 Special Category: Best haiku featuring arthropod recyclers.
Closes: June 15.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
EJCA Spring
Haiku Contest
Cash prizes totalling $C50 for the top 2 ELH. Limit 2 haiku with a spring theme.
Closes: June 20.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Radmila Bogojevic Haiku Award
Limit 3 haiku. Winners announced on August 24, the birthday of the late Serbian poet Radmila Bogojevic. Selected haiku will appear in a special publication.
Open: June 22.
Cost: Free.
Full details from this website (use Google translate if necessary)
HSA Haiku Award
Cash prizes totalling $US450 and winning haiku published in Frogpond and on the Haiku Society of America website. Limit 5 haiku.
Closes: June 30.
Cost: $US10/ entry (discount for HSA members).
Full details from the website.
HSA Senryu Award
Cash prizes totalling $US450 with winning poems published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. Limit 5 senryu.
Closes: June 30.
Cost: $US10/ entry (discount 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: June 30.
Cost: $US10/ entry (discount for HSA members).
Full details from the website.
Triveni Haiku Awards
Limit 2 haiku. Cash prizes (unspecified) for the 3 winners. Judges Billie Dee and Vandana Parashar. Results announced September 12.
Open: June 10-30.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website (link added when available)
Vladimir Devidé
Haiku Award
Limit 1 haiku. The winner, runners up and those commended by the jury, will receive diplomas and their work will be published as a limited edition almanac. Results August 22. Judges Dr Drago Štambuk, Tomislav Maretić and Nikola Đuretić.
Closes: July 3.
Cost: Free.
Full details from this website.
Wales Haiku Journal
Summer Competition
Cash prizes totalling £275, plus publication. Results announced August 15.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: Two payment levels.
Full details from the website.
Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest
Limit 4 haiku. Results are announced on October 12 to mark the death anniversary of Basho. Please note the entry condition that copyright will remain with the sponsors.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards
For unpublished short collections of short poems, including haiku, tanka and haibun. Winners will have their collections published online by Snapshot Press (UK). Winners announced on September 30.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: £15/$US20 per entry.
Full details from the website.
Porad Haiku Award
Cash prizes totalling $US175 and published on the Haiku Northwest website. Limit 5 haiku. Winners will be announced at the annual Seabeck Getaway, October 22-25. Judge is Antoinette Cheung.
Open: July 13-August 30.
Cost: $US5/5 haiku.
Full details from the website.
Kusamakura
Haiku Competition
Limit 2 haiku. First prize receives ¥500,000 travel expenses to attend the awards ceremony on November 1. Other prizes also. Winners informed by email in the middle of October. Winning poems will appear on the website.
Closes: August 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Morioka International
Haiku Contest
Limit 2 haiku. Results announced November 14. Judges Michael Dylan Welch and Toru Kiuchi.
Closes: August 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.