Haiku Contests
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.
Closes: 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.
Ama Pearls
Waka Contest
Limit 10 waka. An explanation of the waka form may be found on the website.
Closes: August 31.
Cost: $US1/waka (free for Waka Society of America members).
Full details from the website (scroll down).
Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest
Limit 2 entries. One grand prize and two distinguished work prizes in each division (Division 1b is for non-Japanese entrants). Winners announced at the end of October and posted to the website.
Closes: September 1.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website. Scroll down for English.
Haiku International Association Contest
Limit 2 haiku. Winners announced December 4. The results will appear in the HI journal and on the HIA website. Judges are Toshio Kimura and David Burleigh.
Closes: September 18.
Cost: Free.
For full details see the website.
Society of Classical Poets Haiku Contest
Limit 3 haiku in the 5-7-5 format. Poems must contain a seasonal word. One cash prize of $US200. Entry is in the Comments section of the website. Results October 9.
Closes: September 25.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Trailblazer Contest
Limit 1 solo zuihitsu and/or 1 collaborative zuihitsu. More about contemporary English-language zuihitsu on the website.
Closes: September 30.
Cost: Free.
For full details see the website.
Penumbra Haiku Contest
Cash prizes totalling $US200, plus publication of the top haiku in the Seven Hills Review. Finalists notified by November 30 with winners announced in December.
Closes: October 15.
Cost: $US15 ($US10 for TWA members).
Full details from the website.
Haiku Crush Anthology
Cash prizes totalling $US500. Unpublished and previously published work accepted. Winners announced during January. The online anthology will comprise 50 haiku selected from entries.
Closes: October 18.
Cost: $US9 for every 4 haiku.
Full details from the website.
San Francisco International Competition
Haiku, senryu and tanka. Cash prize of $US100 for the winner in each category. Results announced in January and winning poems published in the Haiku Poets of Northern California journal, Mariposa.
Closes: In hand October 31.
Cost: $US1/poem.
Full details from the website.
Basho-an International English Haiku Contest
For 2-3-line haiku, up to 10 may be entered. Winners notified at the end of January 2027. There will be a contest anthology and winning poems will be published on the website. Note the copyright restriction. Judges are Kai Hasegawa, Naoko Fujita and Dhugal J. Lindsay.
Closes: October 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.