List of Haiku Contests
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January [top]
January 12: Matsuyamam Photo-Haiku contest. Take a photo and complete it with a haiku.
January 31 deadline to submit to Haiku Canada Members' Anthology. For HC members only..
January 31: Snapshot Press - The Haiku Calendar Competition
January 31: GENJUAN INTERNATIONAL HAIBUN CONTEST
January 31: San Francisco International Competition for Rengay organized by the Haiku poets of Northern California
January 31: The “AHA” Haiku/Senryu Contest (the Annual Hortensia Anderson Memorial Awards)
January 31: ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
February [top]
February 15: Haiku Society of America - Merit Book Awards
February 25: Betty Drevniok Award for members of Haiku Canada.
February 1-28: National Haiku Writing Month. Write one haiku per day for a month and post your poems on NaHaiWriMo Facebook page). Check out my NaHaiWriMo haiku-comics from 2011, 2012, August 2012, 2013.
February 28: Ito En Oi Ocha Haiku Contest
February 28: The HSA Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition.
February 28:ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
March [top]
March 22: The Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition for Grades 7-12
March 31: Haiku Contests by Romanian magazine Haiku.
March 31:ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
March 31: Deadline to submit to Frogpond (Spring/Summer issue).
April [top]
April 17: It's National Haiku Poetry Day! Check out the HaikuLife video on the Haiku Foundation website.
April 30: ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
May [top]
May (Victoria long week-end): Haiku Canada Weekend
May 1: January 31: San Francisco International Competition for Haibun organized by the Haiku poets of Northern California
May 31: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society - Kiyoshi & Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest
May 30: ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
May 31: The Annual Haiku Society of America - Rengay Award in Honor of Garry Gay
May 31: The “Fleeting Words” Tanka Competition
June [top]
June 1 : Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
June 30: ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
July [top]
July 31: The Snapshot Press - eChapbook Awards
July 31: The Annual Harold G. Henderson Awards for Best Unpublished Haiku
July 31: The Annual Gerald Brady Memorial Awards for Best Unpublished Senryu
July 31: The Annual Haiku Society of America Haibun Award
July 31:ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
July 31: Deadline to submit to Frogpond (Fall issue).
July 31: The Annual Haiku Society of America - Haibun Award
July 31: The Annual Haiku Society of America - Senryu Award in memorial of Gerald Brady
July 31: The Annual Haiku Society of America Haiku Award in honor of Harold G. Henderson
August [top]
August 31: Deadline to submit to Haiku Canada Review for the fall issue.
August 30: Kusamakura Haiku Competition
August 31: ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
September [top]
September 3: Mainichi Haiku Contest.
October 15-17 2021 (online): Haiku North America conference. Want to know more about HNA? Read the HNA comics (2017 in Santa Fe, 2015 in Schenectady, 2013 Long Beach, 2011 Seattle).
September 15: BC Arts Council Writers Grant (for British Columbia residents only).
September 30: Porad Haiku Award
September 31: The “Samurai” Haibun Competition
ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
October [top]
October : Seabeck Haiku Getaway (Seabeck, Washington). [Read the Seabeck Comics from 2013, 2014, 2017]
October 31: ITO EN North America - The art of haiku contest (for US Residents only).
October 31: San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka organized by the Haiku poets of Northern California
November [top]
November 30: Deadline to submit to Frogpond (Winter issue).
November 30: Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition
December [top]
December 4: Haiku International Association (HIA) Haiku Contest
December 31: Deadline to submit to Haiku Canada Review (Winter issue)
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