The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District (BID) in Washington DC encourages economic development through a range of initiatives including public art projects. The District stretches from the White House to Dupont Circle. This is the seventh year the BID has run the Golden Haiku poetry contest. More than 1,700 entries were judged by a distinguished… Read More Golden Haiku Contest: Washington DC
Many organisations in Japan conduct haiku competitions and, given the world-wide popularity of the genre, a number of competitions invite haiku written in the English language (several links to these competitions are provided at the end of this post). During 2019, I was fortunate to have two haiku recognised in Japanese contests: the Basho-an International… Read More Haiku Competitions in Japan
The new issue of Windfall is now available. Issue 8, published in early 2020, provides a wonderful selection of haiku relevant to the experience of urban and rural life in Australia. Edited by Beverley George, and published by Peter Macrow from Blue Giraffe Press, Windfall accepts submissions in July each year with the print publication… Read More Windfall: Issue 8
As I mentioned in an earlier posting, the New Zealand Poetry Society runs an annual competition with sections for open verse and haiku as well as categories for younger writers under 18 years of age. Each year, winning and selected poems from the competition are published in an anthology. The 2019 anthology is The Perfect… Read More New Zealand Poetry Society: 2019 Anthology
The final Brush With Poetry for the year will be held on Sunday 24 November 2019. In addition to the usual open mic readings, Laurie McDonald will appear as feature poet for the afternoon. Laurie writes and performs Australian ‘bush’ poetry and other poems capturing his quirky observations from life. Laurie describes most of his… Read More Laurie McDonald at Brush With Poetry
Sandra Simpson and Margaret Beverland have edited Number Eight Wire: The Fourth New Zealand Haiku Anthology which was released earlier this year by Piwakawaka Press. Number Eight Wire presents poems by 70 New Zealand poets from the period 2008 to 2018. The third New Zealand anthology, The Taste of Nashi (2008), was a much-loved collection showcasing… Read More Number Eight Wire: New Zealand Haiku
Spring is here, the sun is shining and the flowers are blooming. So it’s the perfect time to get along to Binalong for the next Brush With Poetry which will be held on Sunday, 29 September 2019. The venue will be the Café on Queen at 15 Queen Street, Binalong, New South Wales. Coffee, cake… Read More Brush With Poetry: 29 September 2019
Each year, the New Zealand Poetry Society runs an international poetry competition with sections for haiku and for longer poems. This year I had the pleasure of judging the haiku section of the competition. More than 500 haiku were submitted for consideration. As many of the entries were from New Zealand writers, it was common… Read More 2019 New Zealand Haiku Contest
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