Submissions
Submissions are OPEN! Use buttons below to reach submission forms.
Submission period: June 1-30 2023
Submit:
Criteria:
Submissions are free and will be via Google form (button will be added below when submission window opens).
A note about selected poems: There will be no placements — no "bests" — in this contest. All winners will be on equal footing, each bringing something different to enrich, educate, and inspire.
Each selected poet will have a brief interview about their process, which will be published after the commentary written by our panelists.
References:
UFOs in Haiku by Jim Kacian
Trailblazer Contest Results - 2021
whiptail Lizard Lounge
See our social media and previous years’ winners for examples.
Submit:
- CATEGORY A: Haiku/Senryu (This includes multi-ku/woven poems on a single theme but not sequences that link and shift.)
- CATEGORY B: Tanka/Kyoka
Criteria:
- Unpublished poems only.
- Up to two poems per person in each category.
- Single author entries.
- Acceptable to submit as jpg or png in order to maintain special formatting of text only (including concrete but no images that include art).
Submissions are free and will be via Google form (button will be added below when submission window opens).
A note about selected poems: There will be no placements — no "bests" — in this contest. All winners will be on equal footing, each bringing something different to enrich, educate, and inspire.
Each selected poet will have a brief interview about their process, which will be published after the commentary written by our panelists.
References:
UFOs in Haiku by Jim Kacian
Trailblazer Contest Results - 2021
whiptail Lizard Lounge
See our social media and previous years’ winners for examples.
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