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You’ve Written Your Haibun – Now What? Revising Haibun for Precision, Resonance, and Ma
by Billie Dee
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News & Events
NZPS Anthology Launches
naming a small bird
Zoom launch on Monday, November 23, 6-7.15pm, MC is anthology editor Anne Kennedy. If you would like to attend the Zoom launch, please email NZPS with the subject line ‘Zoom Launch’.
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland launch is Wednesday, November 25, 6-7.3pm, Mt Albert Library, 84 St Lukes Rd, Mt Albert. MC is anthology editor Anne Kennedy.
Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington launch is Wednesday, November 25, 7.15pm, Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba St.
Ō𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐡𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 launch is Wednesday, November 25, 6pm, at Te Wā The Space 74 Hawdon St. This being held upstairs and is not an accessible event. Jordan Irvine as MC. In collaboration with Hui-Ā-Oro. Pizza will be provided.
Ō𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧 launch is Wednesday, November 25, from 6pm at Moons, 286 Princes St.
Events & Opportunities
Haiku Society of America is hosting a one-day, virtual conference on November 28. The conference theme is Cutting Through Our Times: “As we consider 250 years of history and ‘belonging’ in America, let’s explore themes of rebellion in contemporary haiku. What are we doing to push the envelope of haiku and related poetry in ways that lead to new freedoms, growth, and shared harmony?” Registrations are open, more details from the website.
Kizuna (bond) is a journal for “tan-ku”, a form that weaves together tanka and haiku by two poets. It was developed by the late American poet Deborah Kolodji and Japanese poet Mirako Kitakubo. Mariko is the editor of Kizuna and is looking for poems for issue 5.
Submit: By November 30 by email to Mariko, with the subject line “tan-ku submission”.
Congratulations
To Elaine Riddell who has been placed First in the Stanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest (US). The winning poems may be viewed on this Youtube video.
Japan-theme events in NZ
Nov 21: With Love, Japan, 10am-1pm, Panmure Community Centre, Auckland, Read more here.
Contest Results
Porad Haiku Award (US)
Harold G Henderson Award (US)
HSA Senryu Award (US)
Basho Memorial Haiku Contest (Japan)
WHJ Summer Competition (Wales)
HSA Haibun Award (US)
Triveni Haiku Awards (India)
George Klacsanzky Memorial Haiku Contest (US)
confluence prize (US)
Peggy Willis Lyles Award (US)
Stanford Goldstein Tanka Contest (US)
Marlene Mountain Contest (US)
Fish Haiku Prize (Ireland)
Betty Drevniok Haiku Award (Canada)
Thanks, as always, to the New Zealand Poetry Society for giving us space on its site – free of charge. If you’d consider joining the NZPS, it would be a small repayment for the hosting and support that we receive out of kindness. For those within New Zealand, your membership fees are tax deductible, as is any donation you make over the top of the annual sub. Read more about joining and membership benefits here, including how to join if you live outside New Zealand.
If you’d like to recommend an article, offer to write something for these pages, or generally have something to say about haiku and its related forms, please feel free to get in touch with me, Sandra Simpson. If you find any broken links within an article please let me know. Time passes and websites disappear but clicking on a broken link is always frustrating so I’d like to keep them up to date if I can.
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End Notes
November 2026: Apologies for the later updating this month, but I have had my head in a very different space for a fortnight and was working fulltime again for that short period. It seems like spring is getting springier each day when I arrive home with the roses looking gorgeous, the irises coming on and various small things starting to flower their heads off. Fortunately, the strong spring (equinoctial) winds seem to have come and gone before things had opened too far. I’ve shooed the first blowflies out of the house after having doors and windows open so things must be warming up. I hope you enjoy the pleasures of this gentle month wherever you are. – Sandra
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