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World Children's Haiku Contest 2017-2018

We are delighted to be able to announce the winners of the JAL World Children's Haiku Contest 2017-2018, Ireland. The competition yielded very impressive works, and we have four winners of JAL Grand Prix.

JAL GRAND PRIX (in alphabetical order):

Ro�s�n Beazley, Co. Kerry, age 8
Ellie Geary, Co. Limerick, age 13
Fionn Kearney, Co. Cork, age 13
Lorraine O'Shea, Co.Cork, age 13

The judges were of the opinion that the further four works were of considerable merit, and so awarded four JAL Prizes:

JAL PRIZE (in alphabetical order):

Noelle McCarthy, Co. Cork, age 12
Duaa Aziza Rejeb, Dublin City, age 6
Orestis Smalis, Co. Limerick, age 12
Sin�ad Ward, Co.Limerick, age 13

The winning poems are awailable for viewing on the JAL Foundation website.

Many thanks to all for taking part in the contest - and congratulations to our worthy winners!

IHS International Haiku Competition 2017 Results

The Irish Haiku Society is proud to announce the results of the tenth IHS International Haiku Competition. Over 300 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.

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IHS International Haiku Competition 2020 Rules The Competition Prizes The IHS International Haiku Competition offers prizes of Euro 150, Euro 50 and Euro 30 for unpublished haiku/senryu in English.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 2020. 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 2020 75 Willow Park Grove Glasnevin Dublin 11 D11 VK85 Ireland or ihshaikucompetition[at]gmail[dot]com 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 USA $4. Or with each seven haiku: Euro 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. PayPal payments can be made via ihshaikucompetition[at]gmail[dot]com For that, please create an account with http://www.paypal.com, then click "Send Money" in the menu bar at the top of the page - and send the required amount of money to ihshaikucompetition[at]gmail[dot]com You can link your Paypal account to your bank account and transfer some money onto it before you make this payment. 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 2021 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. Adjudicator 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 Ireland, Japan, USA, Italy, Croatia, Romania and Canada, were published in the main haiku magazines and widely anthologised. 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. JAL GRAND PRIX (in alphabetical order): Sean Maher, Dublin City, age 13 The judges were of the opinion that the further two works were of considerable merit, and so awarded two JAL Prizes: JAL PRIZE (in alphabetical order): Julie O'Brien, Co. Kildare, age 11 Mark O'Machain, Co. Tipperary, age 11 The winning poems will soon be awailable for viewing on the JAL Foundation website. 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 29^th Febuary 2020. Address for Entries: Administrator, World Children's Haiku Contest 2019-2020 75 Willow Park Grove Glasnevin Dublin 11 D11 VK85 Ireland More detailed Rules are available here. 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 moonlit pier the stars lost and found Frank Hooven (USA) 2nd Prize subterranean river the long journey suddenly moonlit Simon Hanson (Australia) 3rd Prizes: in a chink of darkness a single white egg John Barlow (England) night sky the sound of a song before it�s sung Glenn G. Coats (USA) Honourable Mentions In alphabetical order: frolicking fox cub the grass spangled with morning Marion Clarke (Northern Ireland) between two hills calls of the coyote Seren Fargo (USA) autumn fog the lost and found contours of the old stone wall Jay Friedenberg (USA) clearwater stream glassfish filled with light Simon Hanson (Australia) winter whiteout the yellow eyes of a snowy owl Gary Hittmeyer (USA) wild lavender all the fussiness of honeybees Mark Miller (Australia) after the rain sun-filled potholes Cynthia Rowe (Australia) 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 equinox the leaf scent half bitter half sweet Scott Mason (USA) 2nd Prize beyond the reach of light luminous fish Simon Hanson (Australia) 3rd Prizes: the river smoothing river stones winter moon John Barlow (England) dead orchard the random blue sparks of woolly aphids Debbie Strange (Canada) Honourable Mentions In alphabetical order: on every stem of the seed-spent umbel a cluster of frost John Barlow (England) a palomino flicks her tail... new foal�s first breath Tracy Davidson (England) falling through serrated leaves tatters of light Anton Floyd (Ireland) ullchabh�n r�isc san aer feanntach � ci�nas (short-eared owl in the chilly air � silence) Susan Flynn (Ireland) warming tidal pool a starfish creeps deeper into shadow Jay Friedenberg (USA) a grub in the bark the wattlebird�s beak at the ready Gregory Piko (Australia) tire swing the memories we cling to Greg Schwartz (USA) Our sincere congratulations to the winners! We also express our sincere gratitude to the Administrator of the competition, whose assistance proved invaluable. World Children's Haiku Contest 2017-2018 We are delighted to be able to announce the winners of the JAL World Children's Haiku Contest 2017-2018, Ireland. The competition yielded very impressive works, and we have four winners of JAL Grand Prix. JAL GRAND PRIX (in alphabetical order): Ro�s�n Beazley, Co. Kerry, age 8 Ellie Geary, Co. Limerick, age 13 Fionn Kearney, Co. Cork, age 13 Lorraine O'Shea, Co.Cork, age 13 The judges were of the opinion that the further four works were of considerable merit, and so awarded four JAL Prizes: JAL PRIZE (in alphabetical order): Noelle McCarthy, Co. Cork, age 12 Duaa Aziza Rejeb, Dublin City, age 6 Orestis Smalis, Co. Limerick, age 12 Sin�ad Ward, Co.Limerick, age 13 The winning poems are awailable for viewing on the JAL Foundation website. Many thanks to all for taking part in the contest - and congratulations to our worthy winners! IHS International Haiku Competition 2017 Results The Irish Haiku Society is proud to announce the results of the tenth IHS International Haiku Competition. Over 300 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 sunrise all these little fires in the frost Simon Hanson (Australia) 2nd Prize endless heather first scent of the sea Scott Mason (USA) 3rd Prize: almost dusk far from the shore a small paper boat Ann Magyar (USA) Honourable Mentions In alphabetical order: making no headway in the tipping rain the wind-blown crow John Barlow (England) river wind the sting of sulfur rain Chris Bays (USA) vapour trails a roaring horse becomes unicorn Tracy Davidson (England) slime trails a tale of two snails Jay Friedenberg (USA) over the last hill the sun melts into golden red Mercy Ikuri (Kenya) sunset darkness settles on an owl Gregory Longenecker (USA) river bend the curve of a raven's cry Gregory Piko (Australia) new moon tide sandpiper takes a longer U-turn Srinivasa Rao Sambangi (India) snowy field the owls we thought were stones Debbie Strange (Canada) 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 2016 Results The Irish Haiku Society is proud to announce the results of the ninth 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 equinox the weight of dying light Gregory Longenecker (USA) 2nd Prize coastal beach, crabs catching the wave home Mercy Ikuri (Kenya) 3rd Prize: nightswim in mountain water touch of the moon Anton Floyd (Ireland) Honourable Mentions In alphabetical order: turtle rain grass root nudging a half-buried egg Bill Cooper (USA) warm breeze a deaf man and his blind dog Ignatius Fay (Canada) between fence rails an orb weaver graphing the breeze Scott Mason (USA) heartland a road sign above the floodwater Roland Packer (Canada) ebb tide turtle hatchlings chase the sea Christina Sng (Singapore) nothing planted in the garden this year ... wild strawberries! Richard St. Clair (USA) this autumn a willow weeping gold Steve Tabb (USA) all the things I never told you - fallen leaves Juliet Wilson (Scotland) Our sincere congratulations to the winners! We also express our sincere gratitude to the Administrator of the competition, without whom... World Children's Haiku Contest 2015-2016 We are delighted to be able to announce the winners of the JAL World Children's Haiku Contest 2015-2016, Ireland. The competition yielded very impressive works, and we have four winners of JAL Grand Prix. JAL GRAND PRIX (in alphabetical order): Chantelle Esper (15) Riverchapel, Co. Wexford Athalia Fubara (14) Foxrock, Dublin 18 Niamh O'Farrell-Tyler (15) Blackrock, Co. Dublin Emma O'Mahony (12) Killaloe, Co Clare The judges were of the opinion that the further four works were of considerable merit, and so awarded four JAL Prizes: JAL PRIZE (in alphabetical order): Roisin Beazley (6) Killarney, Co. Kerry Jessica Lawrence (11) Scotstown, Co. Monaghan Briana Mac Cinna (10) Scotstown, Co. Monaghan Dylan Walsh (13) Limerick The winning poems are awailable on the JAL Foundation website. Many thanks to all for taking part in the contest - and congratulations to our worthy winners! Rules: http://irishhaiku.webs.com/rules.pdf Application form: PDF: http://irishhaiku.webs.com/applicationform.pdf XLS (download): http://irishhaiku.webs.com/applicationform.xls IHS International Haiku Competition 2015 Results The Irish Haiku Society is proud to announce the results of the eighth IHS International Haiku Competition. Over 250 haiku by poets from twelve 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 late afternoon a rabbit sniffs the sun Scott Mason (USA) 2nd Prize forest mist... a single bee fills the stillness Marion Clarke (Northern Ireland) Two poets receive the 3rd Prize: July morning fire-ants pour from the faucet Ernest J Berry (New Zealand) rocky ledge a wolf with the moon in its mouth Debbie Strange (Canada) Honourable Mentions In alphabetical order: bend of the river a heron's shadow stretches southwest John Barlow (England) Crete dusk between the shore's rocks squid eye Martin Cohen (USA) glinting off snow a skater's blade cuts through the silence Tracy Davidson (England) mountainside waterfall pours colonnade of light Anton Floyd (Ireland) thunderheads a cowrie's mantle purple-flushed Marietta McGregor (Australia) http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm empty ocean the shearwater's belly catches the sun Greg Piko (Australia) winter's afternoon a golden pheasant weaves through bamboo Cynthia Rowe (Australia) autumn wind - ten thousand shimmering stars viewed from a wave crest William Seltzer (USA) http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htmsunset valley a line of merinos melds into the gold Barbara A. Taylor (Australia)

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