The Competition
Prizes
Euro 150,
Euro 50 and Euro 30
for unpublished
haiku/senryu in English.
In addition
there will be up to seven Highly Commended haiku/senryu.
Entrants may win more than one prize.
Administrator,
75 Willow
Park Grove
Glasnevin
Dublin 11
Ireland
1. Entrants may submit an unlimited number of haiku/senryu in any language.
2.
A
haiku/senryu written in Irish (Gaelic), or in a foreign language, should be
submitted accompanied by an English
translation of the haiku on the same list. These translations cannot be
made by the adjudicator of the competition or edited by him.
3.
Haiku
by members of the IHS are eligible for the competition. Haiku by the members of
the Board of the IHS are not eligible.
4. Each haiku must be accompanied by a fee of € 3 or £2.50 sterling or ¥ 500, or USA $4. Or with each seven haiku: € 20 or£15 sterling or ¥ 3000 or $25. Methods of payment: personal cheques, International Bank Drafts or postal/money orders in Euro, or U.K Sterling, or US Dollars only, are acceptable and should be made payable to The Irish Haiku Society. No other cheques/ International Bank Drafts/ postal/money orders can be accepted. Entrants in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries should send Euro, US, Sterling or Yen banknotes, unless they have an Ireland-, US- or UK-based bank account. Please do not send coins.
5.
Haiku/senryu of 17 syllables or
fewer are eligible
for the competition. All haiku must be the original work of a living author.
They must not have been previously published, self-published, published on an
edited or unedited website, or have won a prize, or Honourable Mention, at a
haiku contest.
6.
The
poems must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. Each
haiku must be submitted on a separate sheet of paper.
7.
The
haiku and payment should be firmly attached to the entry form/covering letter. The name of the entrant must not appear on
the poems themselves.
8. Contestants are asked to provide a covering letter with their name, address, Phone Number, E-mail address, Date of Birth, Nationality, Occupation, the first lines of their poems, and any Haiku group affiliation. The name of the translator(s), if any, must also appear in the covering letter but not on the poems themselves.
9.
No
alterations can be made to the haiku once it has been submitted, and it is
regretted that no entries can be returned.
10. Haiku cannot be submitted via the
adjudicator of the competition. Any attempt to contact the adjudicator of the
competition in relation to it will result in immediate disqualification.
11. The judge's decisions are final and
no correspondence can be entered into regarding those decisions.
Submission
of haiku implies the competitor's acceptance of the conditions set out above.
The
prize-winners will be announced and awarded in early October 2008. A list of
the prize-winners will be posted up on the IHS website at http://www.irishhaiku.webs.com
as soon as they are
announced.
Copyright
will remain with the competitors, but the Irish Haiku Society reserves the
right to arrange first publication or broadcast of selected haiku as it sees
fit.
Anthony Anatoly
Kudryavitsky is the editor of Shamrock Haiku Journal and the current
President of the Irish Haiku Society. His own collections include Shadow of
Time (2005) and Morning at Mount Ring (2007), the latter being a
book of haiku and senryu. His haiku have received awards in Ireland, Japan,
USA, Italy, Croatia and Canada, and were published in the main haiku magazines.
Competition Rules in PDF format are available here
