As of January 31, 2012

CALENDAR OF conference dates

Contest entry, publication SUBMITTAL, AND OTHER deadlines

*        Please send corrections and additions to the appropriate address listed on The Haiku Foundation Web site.

 

Date or Deadline

(In-hand unless noted

otherwise at official source for event)

EVENT

(Always verify items of interest with the official source as dates/events/publications do change, and last year's information may no longer apply. We make every effort to keep this calendar current and correct, and hope you will help us do that.)

 

No deadline indicated

Submissions: Ardea

 

 

Submissions: Ashai Haikuists Network (Japan), online

 

 

Submissions: Romance Under a Waning Moon

 

 

Submissions (members only): Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society, online

 

 

Submissions (British Haiku Society members only): Blithe Spirit (UK), quarterly print

 

 

Submissions: bottle rockets print

 

 

Submissions: Contemporary haibun online quarterly online with annual print version

 

 

Submissions: The Electronic Poetry Network, poem-a-day online

 

 

Submissions: Ginyu, print (Japan)

 

 

Submissions: Haibun Today, quarterly/online

 

 

Submissions: Haiku Canada Newsletter and Sheets

 

 

Submissions: Haiku News, online

 

 

Submissions: Haiku Spirit, online (Ireland)

 

 

Submissions: Ink Sweat & Tears (Britain), online

 

 

Submissions: First issue - Journal of Renga & Renku - Published end of 2010

 

 

Online interlingual journal Lishanu is being revived. Send submissions to the new editor John Kinory at kinory(AT)appleinter(DOT)net. Submission rules are at www.lishanu.com/01/sub.htm

 

 

Submissions: Mainichi Daily News (Japan) – Best of 2009 – Annual Selections

 

 

Submissions: (pen name only): Masks (online) – haikumasks (at) gmail (dot) com

 

 

Submissions: paper wasp (Australia), print

 

 

Submissions: Presence, print (UK)

 

 

Submissions: Roadrunner Haiku Journal – quarterly online

 

 

Submissions: Shamrock Haiku Journal, online

 

 

Submissions: (three previously published haiku): Tobacco Road blog

 

 

Submissions: Whirligig [new Dutch/English haiku journal publishes May and November]

 

 

Submissions: World Haiku Review online

 

 

Submissions: Anthology of haiku, senryu, and tanka on the subject of grief, loss and change. Unpublished preferred; include full credits if previously published. No reimbursement. For information: worldofdewhaiku (at) gmail (dot) com

 

Some dates may have changed; always verify dates of interest with the official source

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January 1

Submission period begins for spring issue: Acorn print

 

 

Membership renewals due: Haiku Society of America

 

 

Membership renewals due: Haiku Poets of Northern California (HPNC) 

 

January 15, 2012

Choose your favorites for The Heron's Nest Readers' Choice Awards for 2011

 

January 15

Submission period begins for spring issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

January 20, 2012

Entries: "Fujisan Haiku", an international haiku competition on Mt Fuji

 

January 31, 2012

EXTENSION

Entries:  Haiku Poets of Northern California - Rengay

Results: Previous Years

 

January 31

Submissions: Haiku Canada Annual Members' Anthology

 

 

Entries: Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition

Results: Previous Years

 

 

Membership renewals due: Haiku Canada

 

 

Entries: 2011 Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Award

Results: Previous years

 

 

Entries:  The British Haiku Awards – click on "Competitions" [haiku and haibun]

 

 

Entries: Kikakuza Haibun Contest

 

February 1

Submissions for spring issue: Ribbons (tanka) print

 

 

Entries: The Jack Stamm Award

 

 

Submission period begins for new online journal Mango Moons

 

 

Submission period begins (one month only): Daily Haiku (Canada), online with print version

 

 

Submissions: March issue Notes from the Gean quarterly online

 

February 11, 2012

Attend: Haiku Society of America's Midwest Region Haiku Critique meeting: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Winnetka Public Library, 768 Oak St.  Info: charlotte digregorio – cvpress (at) yahoo (dot) com]

 

February 12, 2012

Attend:  Haiku Society of America's First Quarterly Meeting in Seattle, Washington.

 

February 14

Entries:  The Betty Drevniok Award 2011

Results: 2006 | 2009

 

February 15

Submission period begins for spring/summer issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions for inaugural (spring) issue:  Multiverses [online]

 

 

Submissions for spring issue: Modern English Tanka print and online

 

 

Submissions spring/summer issue (Tanka Canada members only): Gusts, print

 

February 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

February 28

Submission period ends for spring issue: Acorn print

 

 

Submissions: Daily Haiku (Canada), online with print version

 

 

Submissions for spring issue: Chrysanthemum online English/German. For more info, e-mail: chrysanthemum (at) gmx (dot) at

 

 

Entries: Haiku Society of America Lionel Einbond Renku Competition

Results: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

[results 2010 – scroll to bottom]

 

February 29, 2012

Entries: ITO EN Oi Ocha Haiku Contest

Results: 2011 -  Previous Years

 

March 1

Entry period begins: The Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards

Results: 2011

 

 

Submissions (HPNC members only): spring/summer issue Mariposa print

 

 

Submissions for spring issue: haijinx quarterly

 

 

Submissions: 3Lights: Quarterly Journal of Haiku, Senryu & Tanka

 

 

Submissions for spring issue: Haiku Pix Review

 

March 11, 2011

 

Entries: ukiaHaiku Festival Annual Haiku Contest

Results: Previous Years  Scroll Down

 

March 12, 2011

Entries: Robert Frost International Poetry Contest (Haiku section included)

 

March 13

Entries:  Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award Competition

Results: 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

 

March 15

Submissions:  Modern Haiku print

 

 

Submission period begins for Summer Issue: Atlas Poetica (tanka) print and digital

 

 

Submission period ends for new online journal Mango Moons

 

 

Submissions for June issue: The Heron's Nest - online with annual print version

 

 

Submission period ends for spring issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

 

Submissions for June issue A Hundred Gourds

 

March 15, 2012

Entries: 14th International Apokalipsa Haiku Contest – contact revija [at] kud-apokalipsa [dot] si

 

March 21

World Poetry Day

 

March 25, 2011

Entries: Annual Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition

Results: Previous years

 

March 31, 2011

Entries:  Haiku Magazine Contest

 

 

Entries:  Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards

Results:  2010    Previous years

 

 

Submissions: Presence, print  (UK)

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, digital and print

 

 

Submission period ends: Daily Haiku (Canada), online with print version

 

 

Submissions for May issue: Eucalypt Tanka Journal (Australia), print

 

 

Entries: Haiku Now! Contest

Results

 

April 1

Join: New Zealand Poetry Society [see info re dues change if joining mid-way in membership year]

 

 

Submissions for spring issue: Ambrosia, digital and print

 

 

Entries: International bilingual Calico Cat haiku contest. Contact origahaiku (at) yahoo (dot) com

Results: 2009 | 2010

 

 

Entries:  Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award - Open Haiku Competition

Results:  2011

 

 

Submission period begins for Haiku Ramblings quarterly online

 

 

Entries: 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest

 

April 15

Submission period ends for spring/summer issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions: red lights (tanka) print

 

 

Submissions: South by Southeast, print

 

 

Submission period begins for summer issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

 

Entries:  Kaji Aso Studio Annual Haiku Contest

Results: 2011 |  2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005  | 2004  | 2003

 

 

Entries: Lyrical Passion's 2011 Spirit of Japan Tanka Contest

2011 [scroll down]  

 

 

Entries: Japan-EU English Haiku Contest

 

April 17

Celebrate: National Haiku Poetry Day

 

April 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

April 22, 2012

Attend: Spring Meeting in San Francisco – Haiku Poets of Northern California

 

April 22, 2011

 

Entries:  Kids Count for Earth Day Contest 2011

Results:  2010 |  2011

 

April 26, 2012

Celebrate: Poem In Your Pocket Day!

 

April 29

Submissions: Famous Reporter (Australia), online and print (note restrictions)

 

 

Submissions:  Haiku Reality / Stvarnost

 

 

Entries: Ito En North America New Haiku Grand Prix 2011 Contest – monthly through Sept. 2011

For monthly semi-finalists, click on link on left [scroll down for English version]

 

April 30

Submission period ends for Summer Issue: Atlas Poetica (tanka) print and digital

 

May 1

Submissions for summer issue:  Multiverses [online]

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Ribbons (tanka) print

 

 

Submissions for July issue: Stylus Poetry Journal (Australia), online

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka

 

 

Submissions for Lynx

 

 

Submissions for June issue: Notes from the Gean quarterly online

 

May 5

Submissions for June issue: Taj Mahal Review (India), print

 

May 6, 2012

Attend:  Annual moon viewing party in San Francisco - Haiku Poets of Northern California

 

May 15

Submissions for summer issue:  Mayfly print

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Modern English Tanka print and online

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Riverbed, online with annual print anthology

 

May 15

Submissions for spring/summer issue: Moonbathing: A Journal of Women's Tanka (women only)

 

May 21

Submissions: Haigaonline online (haiga e-zine)

 

 

Entries: Klostar Ivanić Haiku Contest, Croatia [dvrozic (at)optinet (dot) hr]

Results: 2011|2010|2009|2008|2007

 

 

Submissions for July issue of Magnapoets print

 

 

 

Submission period begins for fall issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions: 3Lights: Journal of Micropoetry

 

 

Entries: Lyrical Passion Haiku Pen Competition

Results: 2011 [scroll down]  2010|2009

 

May 31, 2011

Entries: The New Zealand Poetry Society’s 2011 international poetry competition

Results: Previous year

 

 

Entries: 2011 Annual Kiyoshi & Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest

 

 

Entries: Ito En North America New Haiku Grand Prix 2011 Contest – monthly through Sept. 2011

For monthly semi-finalists, click on link on left [scroll down for English version]

 

 

Entries: International Kusamakura Haiku Competition

Results:  2010 -  Previous years

 

June 1

Submissions for summer issue: Haiku Pix Review

 

June 7, 2011

Entries: Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational

Results: 2011|2010|2009|2008|2007|2006    

 

June 15

Submissions for September issue: The Heron's Nest online with annual print version

 

 

Submission period ends for summer issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

 

Submissions for September issue A Hundred Gourds

 

June 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

 

Entries: 12th Tanka Society of America’s International Competition

 

 

Submissions: Haiku Society of America annual members' anthology

 

 

Submissions: Annual Seasons Greetings Letter. Haiku/Tanka, published/unpublished. 2012 theme, trees/forest/jungle. To Mohammed H. Siddiqui, 8339 Kendale Rd, Baltimore, MD 21234-5013

 

 

Submissions:  Mu: An International Haiku Journal

 

June 30, 2011

Entries: Ito En North America New Haiku Grand Prix 2011 Contest – monthly through Sept. 2011

For monthly semi-finalists, click on link on left [scroll down for English version]

 

July 1

Entry period begins: The Snapshot Press Book Awards

 

 

Submission period begins for fall issue: Acorn print

 

 

Submissions for summer issue: Ambrosia, digital and print

 

July 15

Submissions:  Modern Haiku print

 

 

Submission period begins for autumn issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

 

Submission period begins for Autumn Issue: Atlas Poetica (tanka) print and digital

 

July 22, 2012

Attend: Summer Meeting in San Francisco – Haiku Poets of Northern California

 

July 25

Submissions: (Using a pen name/haigyo) for masks, a section of Roadrunner [guidelines: haikumasks (at) gmail (dot) com]

 

July 30

Entries: Ito En North America New Haiku Grand Prix 2011 Contest – monthly through Sept. 2011

For monthly semi-finalists, click on link on left [scroll down for English version]

 

July 31

Entry period ends: The Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards

Results: 2011

 

 

Entries: Basho Festival on October 12

Results: 2010  |  2011

 

August 1

Submission period ends for fall issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions for autumn issue:  Multiverses [online]

 

 

Submissions for autumn issue: Ribbons (tanka) print

 

 

Submissions: American Tanka print

 

 

Entries:  2011 Lyrical Passion's Senryu Competition

Results: 2011

 

 

Entry period begins: First (2011) Polish International Haiku Competition (in English)

Results: 2011

 

 

Submissions for September issue: Notes from the Gean quarterly online

 

August 15

Submissions for autumn issue: Modern English Tanka print and online

 

 

Submissions for fall issue: Riverbed, online with annual print anthology

 

 

Submissions fall/winter issue (Tanka Canada members only): Gusts, print

 

August 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

 

Submissions: haijinx quarterly

 

August 31

Submission period ends for fall issue: Acorn print

 

 

Submission period ends for Autumn Issue: Atlas Poetica (tanka) print and digital

 

 

Entries:  Haiku Society of America Haibun Awards

 

 

Entries:  2011 Francine Porad Award for Haiku

Results:  Previous Years 

 

 

Submissions for fall issue: Chrysanthemum online English/German. For more info, e-mail: chrysanthemum (at) gmx (dot) at

 

 

Submissions for Tanka Society of America’s Members’ Anthology

 

 

Entries: Annual Mainichi Daily News Haiku Contest

Results: Current and previous Years [scroll down]

 

 

August 31

Entries:  Harold G. Henderson Awards for Haiku

Results: Previous years

 

 

Entries:  Gerald Brady Memorial Awards for Senyru

Results: Previous years

 

 

Entries: Penumbra Haiku Contest (winners published in chapbook)

 

 

Entries: Ito En North America New Haiku Grand Prix 2011 Contest – monthly through Sept. 2011

For monthly semi-finalists, click on link on left [scroll down for English version]

 

September 1

Submissions (HPNC members only): fall/winter issue Mariposa print

 

 

Submission period begins (one month only): Daily Haiku (Canada), online with print version

 

 

Submissions to Lynx

 

 

Submissions: 3Lights: Journal of Micropoetry

 

 

Submissions for Asahi Weekly Haiku Column. One unpublished haiku to: aw1 (at) asahi (dot) com

 

 

Submissions for fall issue: Haiku Pix Review

 

September 5-9, 2012

Attend:  5th Haiku Pacific Rim Conference 2012 at Asilomar, California

 

September 15

Submission period begins for winter issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions for December issue: The Heron's Nest online with annual print version

 

 

Submission period ends for autumn issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

 

Submissions: South by Southeast, print

 

 

Submissions for December issue A Hundred Gourds

 

September 16, 2011

Entries: Haiku International Association

Results: 2011

 

September 23, 2012

Attend: Two Autumns Reading in San Francisco – Haiku Poets of Northern California

 

September 30

Submissions for winter issue: Modern Haibun and Tanka Prose, digital and print

 

 

Submissions for November issue: Eucalypt Tanka Journal (Australia), print

 

 

Submission period ends (one month only): Daily Haiku (Canada), online with print version

 

 

Entries: Ito En North America New Haiku Grand Prix 2011 Contest – monthly through Sept. 2011

For monthly semi-finalists, click on link on left [scroll down for English version]

 

 

Entries: International bilingual Calico Cat haiku contest. Contact origahaiku (at) yahoo (dot) com

Results: 9th|8th|7th|6th|5th|4th|3rd|2nd|1st

 

 

Submissions for autumn issue: Ambrosia, digital and print

 

 

Submissions for Asahi Weekly Haiku Column. One unpublished haiku to: aw1 (at) asahi (dot) com

 

October 1

Submissions: Journal of Renga & Renku

 

 

Entries: 2011 Renku Contest

 

October 13-16, 2011

Attend:  Haiku Northwest's Annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway in Seabeck, Washington

 

October 15

Submissions for winter issue: Riverbed, online with annual print anthology

 

 

Submissions for Masks

 

 

Submission period begins for winter issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

 

Entries: First (2011) Polish International Haiku Competition (in English)

Results: 2011

 

October 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

October 21, 2012

Attend: Fall Meeting in San Francisco – Haiku Poets of Northern California

 

October 31

Entries:  Haiku Poets of Northern California - Haiku, Senryu, Tanka

Results: Previous Years

 

 

Entries:  Haiku Presence Award

Results: 2009, 2008

 

 

Submission period ends for January issue: Magnapoets (print)

 

 

Submissions: New journal – Haiku Pix

 

 

Submissions for winter issue: Ribbons (tanka) print

 

 

Submissions for December issue: Haigaonline (haiga e-zine)

 

 

Submissions for January issue: Stylus Poetry Journal (Australia), online

 

 

Submissions: Haiku Reality /Stvarnost, online (Serbia)

 

October 31, 2011

Entries: Photo haiku contest

 

 

Entries: 6th Kokako Haiku and Senryu Competition

 

November 1

Submissions: December issue Notes from the Gean quarterly online

 

 

Submissions for winter issue:  Multiverses [online]

 

November 3, 2011

Entry period begins: ITO EN Oi Ocha Haiku Contest  [ends February 29, 2012]

Results: 2011 -  Previous Years

 

November 10

Submissions for Asahi Weekly Haiku Column. One unpublished haiku to: aw1 (at) asahi (dot) com

 

 

November 15

Entries: The Heron's Nest Illustration Contest [for guidelines, write Ithacan (at) earthlink (dot) net]

Results: 2010| 2009 | 2008

 

 

Submission period ends for winter issue: Frogpond print

 

 

Submissions for winter issue:  Mayfly print

 

 

Submission period begins for Spring 2013 Issue: Atlas Poetica (tanka) print and digital

 

 

Submissions:  Modern Haiku print      (Note: New mailing address)

 

 

Submission: red lights (tanka) print

 

 

Submissions for winter issue: Modern English Tanka print and online

 

 

Submissions for December issue: Taj Mahal Review (India), print

 

November 20

Submissions: haijinx quarterly

 

November 24, 2011

Matching Grant Fundraiser for The Haiku Foundation – begins today through December 6, 2011

 

November 27, 2011

Attend: 13th Lecture Meeting: Haiku International Assn. - Tokyo

 

November 30, 2011

Entry period ends: The Snapshot Press Book Awards

 

November 30, 2012

Entries:  Haiku Poets of Northern California - Rengay

Results: Previous Years

 

 

Submissions: 3Lights: Journal of Micropoetry

 

 

Submissions for winter issue: Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka

 

EXTENSION to

November 30, 2011

Entries: Irish Haiku Society International Competition

Results:  2010 -  2008 and 2009 [scroll down]

 

December 1, 2011

Entries: 2012 Chapbook Competition:  Turtle Light Press

 

December 2-4, 2011

Attend: Haiku Society of America quarterly meeting in Marriotsville, Maryland

 

December 10

Submissions for Asahi Weekly Haiku Column. One unpublished haiku to: aw1 (at) asahi (dot) com

 

December 15

Submissions for March issue: The Heron's Nest online with annual print version

 

 

Submissions: South by Southeast, print

 

 

Submission period ends for winter issue: Simply Haiku quarterly online

 

 

Submissions for fall/winter issue: Moonbathing: A Journal of Women's Tanka (women only)

 

December 20

Submissions: Sketchbook, online

 

December 30

Submissions for March issue: Notes from the Gean quarterly online

 

December 31, 2011

EXTENSION

Submissions for March issue A Hundred Gourds

 

December 31

Nominations [results—archives]: The Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems

 

 

Submission period ends for Spring 2013 Issue: Atlas Poetica (tanka) print and digital

 

 

 

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