The Haiku
Calendar Haiku Competition
Deadline: January 31,
2010.
Awards: £360/US $600 total prize money.
12 haiku will be selected as monthly winners and will be
published prominently in The Haiku Calendar 2011. The prize
money will be divided equally between the 12 winners. 40
additional haiku will be selected as runners-up and these will
also be published in the calendar.
Entrants may win more than one prize.
Regulations:
Haiku should ideally include a season word. This may be a
direct reference to a specific day, month or season (e.g. New
Year’s Day, June, winter), or a phenomenon or activity
associated with a particular season. Seasonality should
ideally align with the traditional Japanese (and English)
consideration that the equinoxes and solstices occur at the
midpoints of their respective seasons.
Haiku may be free-form or 5-7-5 and must be the original work
of the entrant.
Previously published work is acceptable, though haiku
previously published by Snapshot Press are not eligible.
Any number of haiku may be entered.
Entry procedure:
Each haiku entered should be typed or written legibly in
English on a single 3" x 5" (75mm x 125mm) card. Your name
should not appear on this card.
Each haiku must be assigned to a month. This month should be
written on the reverse of the 3" x 5" card. (Entrants from the
Southern Hemisphere are advised to transpose certain
composition dates by six months.)
The first line of each haiku entered should be recorded on a
separate sheet of paper along with the corresponding month.
(No entry form is necessary, though one is available in pdf
format here if required.)
Your real name and your address should be recorded on this
entry sheet only.
If you would prefer to be published under a pen name, or for
your name to appear in a distinctive fashion (e.g. all
lower-case letters), please also write this prominently on the
entry sheet.
Entry fee: £3/US $5 per haiku, £6/US $10 for three haiku, and
£12/US $20 for up to ten haiku.
Please make cheques/postal orders payable to “Snapshot Press”.
US checks and banknotes are accepted. Euro banknotes will be
accepted at the same rate as US dollars. Please do not send
cheques or postal/money orders in Euro currency. N.B. Please
do not send cheques or postal/money orders drawn on banks etc.
in countries other than the UK (sterling) and USA (US
dollars). (Entrants in Canada, Australia and New Zealand
should send US or sterling banknotes, unless they have a US-
or UK-based bank account.)
Address for entries: Snapshot Press, Orchard House, High Lane,
Ormskirk, L40 7SL, UK.
Results will be announced on March 31, 2010.
The Haiku Calendar Competition:
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