THIRD ANNUAL MAYA LYUBENOVA HAIKU CONTEST

 Shoshin Haiku Circle is pleased to announce

 the THIRD ANNUAL MAYA LYUBENOVA HAIKU CONTEST 

Theme: MUSIC 

spring wind… 

the boy cuts a reed 

for his bagpipe

–Maya Lyubenova 

Rules: 

The contest is open to everyone but the members of the Jury, the contest coordinator, and their relatives. 

 The submitted haiku must be original work of the author, unpublished (online or in a printed edition) and not shared on any social media (including closed/private groups). 

 Poets may submit in English or in Bulgarian. 

Number of haiku: Each poet may submit no more than 2 haiku. 

Submission period: January 1, 2022 – February 1, 2022 

Jury: 

Radu Serban 

Iliyana Stoyanova 

Frank Williams 

Coordinator: Tzetzka Ilieva 

Email for submission: tzetzka2019.en@gmail.com 

Please write your poems, name, and country of origin in the body of the email. 

 Attachments will not be opened. 

Results: The names of the winners, the winning haiku (1st, 2th, and 3th place), and their translations in Bulgarian will be published on this site by the end of March

Concours de Haïku

 Du 3 janvier au 17 avril 2022

Le haïku, très populaire et respecté dans la littérature japonaise, est considéré comme le plus petit poème au monde. C’est par excellence le poème de l’instant.

Le thème du concours 2022 de la ville de Beauchamp c’est l’hiver.

https://www.ville-beauchamp.fr/ma-ville/agenda-de-la-ville/concours-de-haiku

Invitație

 

Haikouest anunță două concursuri de haiku la fotografie pentru lunile ianuarie și februarie 2022

 

Haikouest anunță două concursuri de haiku la fotografie pentru lunile octombrie și noiembrie

 

​ Annual ​Trailblazer Contest

 The Trailblazer Contest is an annual search for haikai and tanka poetry that betters their  genres by pushing boundaries through the use of innovation, honing, and truth-seeking.

Our Annual Trailblazer Contest offers a new manner of recognition focusing on poems and poets trailblazing — advancing genres in their various forms (including ones perhaps never seen!) for the benefit of all. 

We hope that over the years, our Annual Trailblazer Contest will serve as a way to measure not each of us above another poet, but illustrate the ways in which we have grown, morphed, and even re-visited earlier versions of historical landmarks in haikai and tanka history.

​We hope you will all join us on this journey. Your participation is key to its success!

Perhaps you are tired of flowers and favor more grit. Perhaps you'd like to see more surreal or contrapuntal elements. Maybe you write the most sublime 5-7-5 haiku. Or perhaps we’ve never even seen what you have up your sleeve because nothing like it has been published. Use your imagination. Send us your beautiful monsters. 

Send us the poems that reflect the direction of movement you would like to see in the haiku and tanka worlds. Don’t just send us a haiku or tanka from your pile. Accept this as a challenge to the way you approach your work and take it another step beyond! And challenge us as well! 
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The key is to be the most exemplary form of  yourself, not the handful of people you think have the key to haiku or tanka. No one else can be you!

​Submission period: August 1 - 31, 2021
​​
Sections:

• Tanka/Kyoka
• Haiku/Senryu (This includes multi-ku/woven poems on a single theme but not sequences that link and shift.) ​

In this contest, there will be no delineation between Tanka/Kyoka and Haiku/Senryu in the submissions.
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Criteria:

• Unpublished poems only.
• One poem per person, per section.
• Single author entries.​
• Acceptable to submit as jpg or png to maintain special formatting.

Submissions are free and will be via Google form (accessible to those without Google accounts).

A note about selected poems: There will be no placements — no "bests" in this contest.
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Each selected poet will have a brief interview about their process and it will be published with the commentary written by one of our judges. While the list of selected poems will be released all at once after decisions have been made, these commentaries and interviews will be released every few weeks over the course of the year, as a sort of online anthology.

Those with selected poems will receive a digital certificate.

Results out by early 2022.

https://www.trailblazercontest.com/

Fujisan Award 2021

 

Between June, 2021 ~ September 20, 2021

TANKA* on / related to Mt. Fuji. It may be of your impression on Mt. Fuji or your feelings and emotions you experienced while climbing the mountain. It does not have to include the word “Mt. Fuji” as long as the subject is on the mountain or mountains in general. *TANKA: a poem of five lines in 31 syllables, however, the number of syllables does not matter as long as it consists of five lines.

One TANKA per person.It must be previously unpublished or yet-to-be-released. Send by post using an official postcard or via internet (use application form on this website). Application free of charge

Via Internet:
Use application form on this website.
Inquiry to :fujisantaisho@gmail.com

Mai multe informații aici: 

http://fujisantaisho.com/index_english.html?fbclid=IwAR1ejU84Nr1HpjJAt-q1cGWXlf_Th2sEdAGWQLf0e5rY1nbErFHw5A8zcqo#form