Haiku Contests
NZ Flash Fiction Day
Contest open to New Zealand citizens and residents only. Cash prizes totalling $1,600. Limit 3 stories of 300 words or less. Winners announced on June 22. Judges are Brannavan Gnanalingam and Vana Manasiadis.
Closes: April 30.
Cost: $10/story or $24/3 stories.
Full details from 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.
Vladimir Devidé
Haiku Award
2025 sees the relaunch of this contest. Limit 1 haiku. Results August 22.
Closes: May 3.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Fleeting Words
Tanka Contest
Results by June 15.
Closes: May 15
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
NZPS Haiku Contest
Top five haiku/senryu will be awarded $NZ100 each; first place will also receive the Jeanette Stace Memorial Prize of $NZ150. Winners and selected others will be published in the NZPS annual anthology. Judge is Scott Mason.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: $NZ3.50/haiku or $NZ17.50 for 5 haiku ($NZ2.50/haiku or $12.50 for 5 haiku for NZPS members).
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.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
HSA Garry Gay
Rengay Award
Cash prizes totalling $US450. Open only to 2- or 3-person entries. The winning linked-verse poem will be published in Frogpond and on the HSA website.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: $US5/poem.
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.
Closes: May 31.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Award
Cash prizes totalling $US350. Limit 2 haiku. Results announced July 31.
Closes: June 1.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
Haiku Invitational
Limit 2 haiku. Winning poems celebrated in various ways, including appearing on the VCBF website.
Closes: June 1.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Virtual Japan Fair Haiku Contest
Limit 2 haiku. Winners announced on July 12 and winning poems published on the website. Judge is Michael Dylan Welch.
Closes: June 9
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Hexapod Haiku Challenge
Limit 3 haiku inspired by insects (or spiders or millipedes or other related arthropods). Winning haiku published on the website of the Frost Entomological Museum at Penn State University and via their social media.
2025 Special Category: Best haiku featuring ground-dwelling arthropods.
Closes: June 15.
Cost: Free.
Full details from the website.
Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards
For unpublished short collections of short poems, including haiku, tanka and haibun. Winners will have their collections published online by Snapshot Press (UK). Winners announced on September 30.
Closes: July 31.
Cost: £15/$US20 per entry.
Full details from the website.