IHS International Haiku Competition 2012 Results

The Irish Haiku Society is proud to announce the results of the fifth IHS International Haiku Competition. This year we saw a further increase in the number of participating authors. 262 haiku by poets from thirteen countries/territories (Australia, Canada, Chile, England, Germany, Ireland, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Serbia, USA and Wales) were submitted to this year’s competition. It was adjudicated by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, and was judged blindly. The following is the list of prize-winning and highly commended haiku.

1^st Prize

 Alan S. Bridges (Massachusetts, USA) receives the first prize of € 150 for the following haiku:

gale-force wind
a bird's nest becomes
what it was

2^nd Prize

The 2^nd Prize of € 50 goes to Steven Carter (Arizona, USA) for the following haiku:

wind in tamaracks -
whispering to shadows,
shadows

3^rd Prize

 
John Barlow (England) and Ernest J. Berry (New Zealand) each receive the third prize of € 30 for the following haiku:

 drawing the geese
from the stubble fields
the pink-tinged sky

(by John Barlow)

 

funeral march
the crunch crunch crunch
of cicada husks

(by Ernest J. Berry)

  

  

Highly Commended Haiku

 
In alphabetical order:

 

Owen Bullock (New Zealand)

on the piano
photos of the ones
who don't visit

  

Tracy Davidson (England)

April showers
my inside-out umbrella
drowns a snail

 

Cathy Drinkwater Better (Pennsylvania, USA)

November dusk
a cloud of sparrows rounds
the weathered silo

 

Scott Mason (New York, USA)

end of summer
the busker's trouser cuffs
collect burs

 

Conor O'Neill (Ireland - Chile)

twilight
the late swallow passes
the first bat

 

Cynthia Rowe (New South Wales, Australia)

stone steps
an electric ant takes
the handrail

 

 Julie Warther (Ohio, USA)

spring equinox
chaise lounge claimed
by the swollen river

Our congratulations go to all of the winners. We also express our sincere gratitude to the Administrator of the competition, without whom…

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IHS International Haiku Competition 2012 Rules

The Competition Prizes

The IHS International Haiku Competition offers prizes of 

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for unpublished haiku/senryu in English.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.

 

Deadline:

 All the entries shall be postmarked by 30^th November 2012. Overseas (non-EU) entries mailed in the month up to and including this closing date must be sent by airmail.

 

Address for entries:

Administrator,

The IHS International Haiku Competition 2012

75 Willow Park Grove

Glasnevin

Dublin 11

Ireland

 

 

The Rules of the Competition

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, any Haiku group affiliation and the first lines of their poems. 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 in January 2013 and subsequently awarded. A list of the prize-winners will be posted up on the IHS website at

http://www.irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm 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.

 

Adjudicator

 
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), Morning at Mount Ring (2007) and Capering Moons (2011), the latter two being collections of haiku and senryu. His haiku have received awards in Ireland, Japan, USA, Italy, Croatia, Romania and Canada, and were published in the main haiku magazines.

Competition Rules in PDF format are available here

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IHS International Haiku Competition 2011 Results

The Irish Haiku Society is proud to announce the results of the fourth IHS International Haiku Competition. This year we saw a further increase in the number of participating authors. 232 haiku by poets from fourteen countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Romania, USA and Wales) were submitted to this year’s competition in Category A. As for Category B open only for participants born or residing on the island of Ireland, we received 37 poems. Poets submitting their works in this category were expected to write about poverty and include reflections upon or references to "Poverty: punishment for a crime you didn't commit" (attributed to Eli Khamarov). This year’s competition was adjudicated by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, and it was judged blindly. The following is the list of prize-winning and highly commended haiku in both categories.

 

Category A 

1^st Prize

 Quendryth Young (Australia) receives the first prize of € 150 for the following haiku:

turning tide
the buoy bobs
sideways

2^nd Prize

The 2^nd Prize of € 50 goes to John Barlow (England) for the following haiku:

the windfalls
he gathered
gathering dusk

3^rd Prize

 
Bouwe Brouwer (the Netherlands) receives the third prize of € 30 for the following haiku:

 November rain -
the fence
around the ruin

  

  

Highly Commended Haiku

 
In alphabetical order:

 

Ernest J. Berry (New Zealand)

early dusk
the elderly sexton
wreathed in mist

  

Marion Clarke (Northern Ireland)

storm on the lough
streetlamps on Seaview
lit by sunrise

 

Beth McFarland (Northern Ireland - Germany)

laid at the feet
of a cat,
all the Alps

 

Peter Newton (USA)

first snow...
filling the emptiness
of a curled leaf

 

Roland Packer (Canada)

equinox
again you speak
of leaving

 

Cynthia Rowe (Australia)

wild persimmon
autumn sun fills
the last leaf

 

 Priscilla Van Valkenburgh (USA)

island morning fog -
the spruce tree and wooden bench
web-connected

 

Category B 

 

1^st Prize

Clare McCotter (Co. Derry) receives the first prize of € 100 for the following haiku:

silver moon
climbing a scaffold of stars
unemployed builder

  

2^nd Prize

The 2^nd Prize of € 30 goes to Thomas Powell (Co. Armagh) for the following haiku:

 charity shop -
we debate the need
for a book on Gauguin

3^rd Prize

 Mary O'Keefe (Co. Cork) receives the third prize of € 20 for the following haiku: 

coffee morning
in the hull of her handbag
she stows her daughter's lunch

 
 

  
Highly Commended Haiku

In alphabetical order:

 

Clare McCotter (Co. Derry)

gold autumn dawn
melting over the fields
she once owned

Clare McCotter (Co. Derry)

rose dawn
pulled tight around
the bagwoman's shoulders

 

Beth McFarland (Co. Tyrone - Germany)

all the unborn children
cherry blossom
in the wind

 

Conor O'Neill (Co. Dublin - Chile)

outside the bank
a beggar's empty hands
counting raindrops

Thomas Powell (Co. Armagh)

work prospects...
I search the sky
for yesterday's swallows

 Our congratulations go to all of the winners. We also express our sincere gratitude to the Administrator of the competition, without whom…

 

 

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IHS International Haiku Competition 2011 Rules

The Competition Prizes

Category A (Irish and International)

The IHS International Haiku Competition offers prizes of 

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 in this category.

Category B (Irish)

The IHS International Haiku Competition offers prizes from Dóchas Ireland of 

Euro 100, Euro 30 and Euro 20

for unpublished haiku/senryu in English or in Irish Gaelic (with an English translation) about Poverty.  Besides being perfect haiku/senryu, the winning poems in this category may include reflections upon or references to "Poverty: punishment for a crime you didn't commit" (attributed to Eli Khamarov).

This category, unlike Category A, is only open for participants born or residing on the island of Ireland.

In addition there will be up to three Highly Commended haiku/senryu in this category.

Entrants may win more than one prize.

Deadline:

 All the entries shall be postmarked by 30^th November 2011. Overseas (non-EU) entries mailed in the month up to and including this closing date must be sent by airmail.

Address for entries:

Administrator,

The IHS International Haiku Competition 2011

75 Willow Park Grove

Glasnevin

Dublin 11

Ireland

The Rules of the Competition

1.      Entrants may submit an unlimited number of haiku/senryu in any language. Participants born or residing on the island of Ireland can submit poems in both categories; however they must choose a category in which they submit each particular piece.

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. Please mark the category (A or B) on each sheet.

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, any Haiku group affiliation, the first lines of their poems, and in which category they are submitted. 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 in January 2012 and subsequently awarded. A list of the prize-winners will be posted up on the IHS website at

http://www.irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm 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.

Adjudicator

 
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), Morning at Mount Ring (2007) and Capering Moons (2011), the latter two being collections of haiku and senryu. His haiku have received awards in Ireland, Japan, USA, Italy, Croatia, Romania and Canada, and were published in the main haiku magazines.

(year end
a boat accompanies
the river to the sea)

  

2^nd Prize

The 2^nd Prize of € 30 goes to Cara Joy (Co. Kerry) for the following haiku:

 the small river flows
through the door of the valley
soon to be no more

3^rd Prize

 Maire Morrissey-Cummins (Co. Wicklow) receives the third prize of € 20 for the following haiku: 

on the motorway
abandoned cranes
among ghost estates

 

 

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The Competition Prizes

Category A (Irish and International)

The IHS International Haiku Competition offers prizes of 

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 in this category.

Category B (Irish)

The IHS International Haiku Competition offers prizes from Dóchas Ireland of 

Euro 100, Euro 30 and Euro 20

for unpublished haiku/senryu in English or in Irish Gaelic (with an English translation) about Ireland in the changing world. Besides being perfect haiku/senryu, the winning poems in this category may include reflections upon or references to "what it means to live in Ireland at the beginning of the 21st century".

This category is only open for participants born or residing on the island of Ireland.

In addition there will be up to three Highly Commended haiku/senryu in this category.

Entrants may win more than one prize.

Deadline:

 All the entries shall be postmarked by 15^th November 2010. Overseas (non-EU) entries mailed in the month up to and including this closing date must be sent by airmail.

Address for entries:

Administrator,

The IHS International Haiku Competition 2010

75 Willow Park Grove

Glasnevin

Dublin 11

Ireland

The Rules of the Competition

1.      Entrants may submit an unlimited number of haiku/senryu in any language. Participants born or residing on the island of Ireland can submit poems in both categories; however they must choose a category in which they submit each particular piece.

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. Please mark the category (A or B) on each sheet.

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, any Haiku group affiliation, the first lines of their poems, and in which category they are submitted. 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 late November 2010. A list of the prize-winners will be posted up on the IHS website at

http://www.irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm 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.

Adjudicator

 
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, Romania and Canada, and were published in the main haiku magazines.