Our Event Calendars have been updated as of November 11, 2011. These tools are designed to help haiku poets keep track of journal and other submission dates, haiku gatherings, and contest entry deadlines, They are available in either pdf or html versions. The main document has publications, gatherings, contests, and other matters of interest to haiku poets; the other is a contests-only version. They can be used as checklists as well as reminders. Many thanks to everyone who sends information to help us keep the information current and correct. Please continue to send new information, updates, and corrections to calendar/at/thehaikufoundation.org (replacing /at/ with @).
Contests
The Award
The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards Series enters its second year. and includes the Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards for 2011. The Touchstone Awards Series is a family of awards designed to recognize and reward excellence in the field of haiku.
The Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards will be bestowed annually on published collections of poems, or works of scholarship that present a noteworthy contribution to English-language haiku in the estimation of a distinguished panel of poets, editors and scholars. Any English-language book or other production that is of or about haiku (and related forms) is eligible for the Award. The 2011 Award is open to books published between October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2011. Each author of an award-winning book will receive an engraved stone with their name and title of their book on it, emblematic of his or her contribution to the foundations of English-language haiku. Winners of the Award for 2010 included Carolyn Hall (How to Paint the Finch’s Song), John Stevenson (Live Again), Allan Burns (Montage), and John Martone (Scrittura Povera). There were also three Honorable Mentions.
The Panel
The panel for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Awards for 2011 consists of Charles P. Trumbull, editor of Modern Haiku; Professor David G. Lanoue, author of Haiku Guy; Lorin Ford, haiku editor for the online journal A Hundred Gourds; Professor Philip Rowland, editor of Noon: Journal of the Short Poem; and Barbara Louise Ungar, winner of the Gival Press Poetry Prize in 2006.
What Books Are Eligible?
Any individual or publisher whose book has been published within the given time frame may submit their work for consideration. There is no reading fee. If there is some question about your book’s eligibility, please contact the Foundation at the address below for clarification.
How to Submit
To qualify for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award, each poet must initially submit two copies of the book nominated no later that October 15, 2010 (postmark). One copy will be assigned to one of the panelists, the other will become a permanent inclusion in The Haiku Foundation’s permanent hard copy library. Each submitter will be recognized as a donor to the Foundation and cited on the Donation Page of the website. Should your submission be recommended for the short list, we will at that time request four additional copies so the entire panel may consider it. Short list entries and award winners will be cited on The Haiku Foundation website. Nominated volumes should be sent to:
The Haiku Foundation
Touchstone Distinguished Books Award
PO Box 2461
Winchester VA
22604-1661 USA
Enquiries may be directed to this address, or to web.admin@thehaikufoundation.org.
The Haiku Foundation created the HaikuNow! contest in order to encourage writers to explore English-language haiku. This year’s contest drew participants from over 50 countries. We had 240 entries in the Innovative category, 303 entries in the Contemporary category and 315 in Traditional.
We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2011 HaikuNow! contests:
Indian summer mother dyes her graying hair the color of straw —Tom Painting |
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the river freezes . . . silence is also an answer —Francine Banwarth |
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we turn turn our clocks ahead —Christopher Patchel |
Please see the HaikuNow! archive page for all the judges’ comments!
We are pleased to announce the start of our second annual HaikuNow! contest today! Prizes will be awarded for English-language haiku in three categories: traditional, contemporary and innovative. Anyone is free to enter one unpublished haiku per category.
Please see the main HaikuNow! page for deadlines and other requirements. The winning poems from last year are available from the HaikuNow! Archive page.
Laura Sherman is our contest coordinator. Our two final judges are Jim Kacian and Jane Hirshfield. Many of you will know Jane from her poetry collections (After), her essays (Nine Gates, Entering the Mind of Poetry) and her translations (Ink Dark Moon, with Mariko Aratani).
We look forward to receiving your entries!
Our Event Calendars have been updated with several new items—and some deadlines have recently been extended. These calendars are intended as tools to help haiku poets keep track of journal submission and contest entry deadlines, They are available in either pdf or html versions. The main document has publications and contests; the other is a contests-only version. They can be used as checklists as well as reminders. Many thanks to those who have sent information to help us keep the information current and correct. Please continue to send new information, corrections, and updates, including links to contest results, to: calendar/at/thehaikufoundation.org (replacing /at/ with @).
