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The Irish Haiku Society is a not-for-profit organisation promoting the writing and appreciation of haiku in Ireland. It organises readings, ginko, workshops and other haiku-related events. |
IHS International Haiku Competition 2021 Results 1st Prize Debbie Strange (Canada)
2nd Prize old
battlefield Jay
Friedenberg (USA)
3rd Prizes In alphabetical order:
cradled in my hands the weight of a snipe John Barlow (England)
first
frost Jennifer Hambrick (USA)
Honourable Mentions In alphabetical order:
deep
forest Marion
Clarke (Northern
Ireland)
my
kite Alvin Cruz (Philippines)
spring
day Brendan
Duffin (Ireland)
thicket Seren
Fargo (USA)
the
rusting hulk Anton Floyd (Ireland)
distant
hills Frank
Hooven (USA)
alpine
meadow Marietta McGregor (Australia)
thunder Mark Miller (Australia) early nightfall lights in the basement flat’s toy village Roland Packer (Canada) brewing tea night and day become one Greg Piko (Australia) Many thanks to all who submitted their work to this contest!
IHS International Haiku Competition 2021 Rules The
Competition
Prizes The
IHS
International
Haiku
Competition
offers
prizes of Deadline:
All
the entries shall
be
postmarked by 30th November 2021.
Overseas (non-EU)
entries mailed in
the month up to and
including this
closing date must be
sent by airmail.
Administrator, The IHS
International Haiku
Competition 2020 75 Glasnevin D11
VK85 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
international and
Irish poets,
including 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
Euro
3
or £2.50
sterling
or ¥ 500,
or 5. Haiku/senryu
of 17
syllables or
fewer are
eligible for
the competition.
Free-form and
experimental haiku
are also welcome.
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, or e-mailed to the competition administrator as a MS Word file attached to your e-mail. E-mail submissions can be made via ihshaikucompetition[at]gmail[dot]com 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 (or
in
the file attached
to the e-mail). 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. This
information can
be included in the
body of the e-mail
but not in
the
attached file. 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 2022
and
subsequently awarded. 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. Anatoly
Kudryavitsky
is the editor of Shamrock
Haiku Journal and
the founding
Chairman of
the Irish Haiku
Society. His haiku
collections
include
Morning
at Mount Ring (2007), Capering
Moons (2011)
, Horizon (2016),
and Ten
Thousand Birds
(2020).
His haiku have
received awards in IHS International Haiku Competition 2020 Results 1st
Prize bracket
fungus Marietta McGregor (Australia)
2nd
Prize heavy
mist Marion
Clarke (Northern Ireland)
3rd
Prizes: the
dark pool Simon Hanson (Australia)
storm
hour Debbie Strange (Canada)
Honourable Mentions In alphabetical order:
across the whitsun edgelands a path of flattened grass John
Barlow (England)
first
touch Erin Castaldi (USA)
the cleared pond more sky falls into it Anton
Floyd (Ireland)
swifts
at sunset Frank
Hooven (USA)
on
the bank Hugh O'Donnell (Ireland)
a
duck Greg
Piko (Australia)
thunder David Watts (USA)
housebound... Tony
Williams (Scotland) World Children's Haiku Contest 2019-2020 Winners We
are
delighted to
be able to
announce the
winners of the
JAL World
Children's
Haiku Contest
2019-2020,
Ireland. The
competition
yielded
very
impressive
works,
although, due
to Covid-19,
we had less
entries
than in
previous
years. The
winner of JAL
Grand Prix.
The
judges were
of the opinion
that the
further two
works were of
considerable
merit, and so
awarded two
JAL Prizes:
Many thanks to all for taking part in the contest - and congratulations to our worthy winners! World Children's Haiku Contest 2019-2020 The contest is held by JAL Foundation, Japan, in cooperation with the Irish Haiku Society. Contestants must be aged under 15 on 29th February 2020. Each haiku must be an original and unpublished work by the child himself/herself. Assistance of others is prohibited. The haiku must be accompanied by a hand-drawn or hand-crafted artwork appearing on the same page of an A4 sheet of paper (21cm x 29.7cm). Glue the application form to the back of the artwork. The winning haiku will appear in the book titled Haiku by World Children, Vol. 16. Topic: "Sports" Deadline: All the entries shall be postmarked by 29th Febuary 2020.
Address
for Entries:
Administrator, World
Children's
Haiku Contest
2019-2020 75
Glasnevin D11
VK85 The Application Form is available here. Queries: irishhaikusociety[at]gmail[dot]com
IHS
International
Haiku
Competition
2019 Results
The
Irish
Haiku Society
is proud to
announce the
results of the
twelfth IHS
International
Haiku
Competition.
Over 320 haiku
by poets from
fifteen
countries/territories
were submitted
to this year's
competition.
It was
adjudicated by
Anatoly
Kudryavitsky,
and judged
blindly. The
following
is the list of
prize-winning
and highly
commended
haiku. 1st
Prize Frank Hooven (USA)
2nd
Prize
In alphabetical order: frolicking
fox
cub
soft
rime
a
chickadee’s
song
becomes
visible
Debbie
Strange (Canada)
a
shapeless day
sizzles
of
slow snow
on
the water
Ian
Turner (England)
Our sincere congratulations to the winners! We also express our sincere gratitude to the Administrator of the competition, whose assistance proved invaluable.
IHS
International
Haiku
Competition
2018 Results
The Irish Haiku Society is proud to announce the results of the eleventh IHS International Haiku Competition. Over 300 haiku by poets from fourteen countries/territories were submitted to this year's competition. It was adjudicated by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, and judged blindly. The following is the list of prize-winning and highly commended haiku. 1st
Prize Scott Mason (USA)
2nd
Prize |