- 7/31: Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards
- 10/31: San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka

(4/4)

- 5/31: HSA Rengay Award Contest
- 5/31: New Zealand Poetry Society Competition
- 5/31: Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
- 5/31: Star Haiku Contest
- 6/1: Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards
- 6/1: Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
- 6/15: Hexapod Haiku Challenge

(3/x)

- 4/30: medmic Winter Haiku Contest
- 5/1: confluence Poetry Prize
- 5/1: San Francisco International Competition for Haibun
- 5/5: Skipping Stones Haiku and Tanka Contest
- 5/7: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Haiku Competition
- 5/24: Japan Fair Online Haiku Contest
- 5/31: Dreamers Haiku Contest

(2/x)

currently open #haiku, #haibun, #rengay, & #tanka contests (it's a lot):

- 4/10: "Whispers of Nature" International Haiku Contest
- 4/30: DC Public Library Haiku Contest
- 4/30: Kiyoshi & Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest
- 4/30: Kyoto Writing Competition (theme: "Kyoto")

(1/x)

these #haiku & #haibun journals reopened to submissions yesterday:

- bottle rockets
- Drifting Sands
- Echidna Tracks
- Post-ku
- Tendrils (Poetry Pea)
- Trash Panda
- tsuri-dōrō

great haiku -- good flow, good word choice, good juxtaposition btwn the rising tide & the downward flow of the poem, good shift at the end. this is one i keep rereading over again.

new haibun submission policy at Modern Haiku

From Modern Haiku editor Paul Miller HAIBUN: REVISED SUBMISSION POLICY effective immediately.
Due to haibun's significantly increased popularity, haibun submissions will now be limited to one haibun per issue (so make it your best!)…

scifi/fantasy/horror markets reopening to submissions today:

- Cast of Wonders
- Luna Station Quarterly
- Translunar Travelers Lounge

see their guidelines for specifics. links here:
haiku-and-horror.blogspot.com/p/speculativ...

The Dragon Lord The Dragon Lord [Drake, David] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Dragon Lord

Surprised to see no one's mentioned The Dragon Lord by David Drake. A far departure from the traditional Arthurian legend, but an engaging, unique, and action-packed read.

www.amazon.com/Dragon-Lord-...

scifi/fantasy/horror markets that reopened to submissions this week:

- A Cup of Owls - Quarterly Online Anthology
- Apex Magazine
- Hearth Stories
- NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast (for flash fiction)
- The Deadlands (for poetry)
- MetaStellar Magazine
- Tales from the Crosstimbers

- 4/30: medmic Winter Haiku Contest
- 5/1: San Francisco International Competition for Haibun
- 5/31: Dreamers Haiku Contest
- 6/1: Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
- 7/31: Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards
- 10/31: San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka

- 3/20: Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Student Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12
- 3/27: Sakura Haiku Challenge
- 4/1: High/Coo Chapbook Competition
- 4/6: Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest
- 4/30: Kiyoshi & Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest
- 4/30: Kyoto Writing Competition

(still more)

so many current #haiku contests to enter! deadlines listed below (thanks to @mamajoules.bsky.social for the first 2!):

- 3/2: Aces National Grammar Day Poetry Contest
- 3/6: Betty Drevniok Award (deadline extended)
- 3/13: Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards Competition

🧵

Thanks 🙏 Inspired by all the current “great”ness being heaped upon us

#haiku and #tanka journals reopening to submissions today:

- Eucalypt: a tanka journal
- Fireflies' Light
- Frogpond
- Haiku Page
- Sense & Sensibility
- Sonic Boom
- tsuri-dōrō
- Wales Haiku Journal

Thanks Julie! I’ll update that on the list (and try to submit!)

fighter jets—
rattling plates
in the soup kitchen

#haiku

Bindle Bum: a travelogue of vignettes Amazon.com: Bindle Bum: a travelogue of vignettes: 9798791881908: Berglund, Jerome William: Books

had some free time this morning so picked up Jerome Berglund's Bindle Bum again... a fun read, more adventure journal than haiku collection, it takes you in all sorts of directions.

www.amazon.com/Bindle-Bum-J...

- Perseid Prophecies
- Splash
- Sublimation: a Magazine of Speculative Poetry and Art
- Zooscape

links to all of them here:
haiku-and-horror.blogspot.com/p/speculativ...

(2/2)

scifi/fantasy/horror journals, anthologies & podcasts closing to submissions tomorrow (2/28):

- Afterlives 2025: The Year’s Best Death Stories
- Aurealis
- Carmen et Error
- Fusion Fragment
- Haven Spec
- In Another Time Magazine
- NewMyths
- NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast

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Congrats! That’s awesome

Thanks Farah! Updated 🙂

#haiku contests closing 2/28:

- Atlanta Haiku Festival Competition
- Betty Drevniok Award
- ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest
- Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest
- Prix Jocelyne-Villeneuve
- Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
- World Children's Haiku Contest - Regional Contest

Radon Pay Rate is now 2.5 cents a word

Radon Journal's fiction pay rate is increasing to 2.5¢/word!

We are also implementing a $15 minimum for fiction to ensure micro-fiction authors are taken care of.

Cheers to the authors who refuse to remain quiet or complicit.

A PATREON story. Enjoy!

NEW LEAF by GREG SCHWARTZ

https://www.patreon.com/posts/150638375

#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #bookblogger #bookpromo #amreading #tbrpile #patreon #drabble #shortstory

- 5/31: Dreamers Haiku Contest
- 7/31: Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards
- 10/31: San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka

(4/4)

- 3/20: Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Student Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12
- 4/1: High/Coo Chapbook Competition
- 4/30: medmic Winter Haiku Contest
- 5/1: San Francisco International Competition for Haibun

(3/4)

- 2/28: Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest
- 2/28: Prix Jocelyne-Villeneuve
- 2/28: Sejong Writing Competition
- 2/28: Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
- 2/28: World Children's Haiku Contest - Regional Contest
- 3/13: Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards Competition

(2/x)

currently open #haiku (& related forms) contests:

- 2/9: Mercer County Library System Haiku Contest
- 2/15: HSA Merit Book Awards
- 2/20: Myong Cha Son Haiku Award
- 2/28: Atlanta Haiku Festival Competition
- 2/28: Betty Drevniok Award
- 2/28: ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest

(1/x)

scifi/fantasy/horror markets that opened for submissions this week:

- Abyss & Apex (for fiction)
- Aurealis
- Carmen et Error
- Fantastic Voyages anthology (Critical Blast Publishing)
- Flash Point Science Fiction
- NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast (for short non-flash fiction)
- SpecPoVerse