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Full details Submissions are now OPEN . (The link is at the very bottom of this page, but please don’t skip all the important stuff!) Notes of interest: We post the poems we accept online for the world to see. If you post, you are giving permission to print it. This is also clearly in our guidelines. When you submit, the process of posting your work to our current online issue is automated. Once it is approved by one of our editors, it magically (and instantly) appears in the current issue online exactly as you typed it. We do not typically edit submission. We tend to accept a poem as it is, or we do not. You cannot withdraw your poem after it is accepted because once it is accepted, it is already printed online in an issue. You can only withdraw prior to acceptance by returning to the submission manager and clicking “withdraw.” Your haiku should not have a title. We do print the name of the poet with each poem. Please do not try to title your submission...

Full details Notes of interest: We post the poems we accept online for the world to see. If you post, you are giving permission to print it. This is also clearly in our guidelines. When you submit, the process of posting your work to our current online issue is automated. Once it is approved by one of our editors, it magically (and instantly) appears in the current issue online exactly as you typed it. We do not typically edit submission. We tend to accept a poem as it is, or we do not. You cannot withdraw your poem after it is accepted because once it is accepted, it is already printed online in an issue. You can only withdraw prior to acceptance by returning to the submission manager and clicking “withdraw.” Your haiku should not have a title. We do print the name of the poet with each poem. Please do not try to title your submissions. We want every poem to appear clean/minimal. We believe minimalism and white space are key to honoring the haiku form and presenting...

Full details Share with us your haiku aha moments that give life to your observations, feelings and thoughts of times spent in Australian cities, towns or suburbs. Whether you have lived in such places or come and gone as a visitor we’d love an insight into your experience. Does your doorway open onto a cottage garden, a gnome cluttered lawn or the hallway of a high-rise flat? Tell us some of the goings-on in your street or neighbourhood.  Our topic is open to every aspect of urban culture and landscape. Most importantly it is your experience of life in the cities, towns or suburbs we want, authentic and real.

Full detials Submissions will be read during January/February and July/August only. Original unpublished haiku not under consideration elsewhere are welcome. Please send submissions of 5-15 poems at a time. Posting to private, online mailing lists and workshops is not considered prior publication; however, appearance in an edited online journal or a public forum, or posting on Twitter, Facebook or a personal blog, renders a poem ineligible for submission. All copyrights revert to the author upon publication. Acorn publishes in April and October. Submissions will be read in January and February for the Spring issue and in July and August for the Fall issue. Submissions received prior to that time will be returned unread. Email submissions are encouraged. Type “Acorn” in the subject line, and include your complete address in the message. Please type your haiku in the body of the email, formatted as plain text. Attachments will not be opened. Send email submissio...

Full details FT Executive Appointments launched its weekly haiku/senryu contest in 2014. Winning poems covering specific workplace-related topics are published in the section on Thursdays. The haiku is a powerful poetic form, in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. David Lanoue, haiku poet and author, defines it as: “A one-breath poem that discovers connection,” and thinks of a senryu as a comic haiku. Keeping this in mind while you write will help you. To enter, find the current topic in each week’s Executive Appointments and send your poems on that topic to workplace.haiku@ft.com Judging methodology The best examples of haiku will be narrowed down by FT editors, with a guest judge picking the winner each week. Judges have been nominated by British Haiku Society, the World Haiku Association, the Haiku Foundation and Poet in the City. It is important the poem entered is in the form and spirit of the haiku/senryu and that it pertains to the week’s topic. However, many of our jud...