The HSA
Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition
The Haiku Society of
America sponsors this annual award for renku of 36, 20,
or 12 stanzas.
Winners by Year: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003
| 2002 | 2001
Deadline: In
hand by April 30, 2010. Entries received after
that date will not be accepted. The 2011 contest
deadline will be February 28, 2011
Eligibility: The contest is open to the public. HSA
officers who are members of the executive committee are
not eligible, but regional coordinators may enter. No
entries will be accepted that include work by any of the
judges.
Regulations: For the purpose of this contest, a renku
may consist of 36, 20, or 12 stanzas (kasen, nijûin,
junicho or shisan forms) written by two or more persons,
each of whom contributes a substantial number of
individually authored stanzas. Any particular author may
appear in no more than three different renku entered.
Entries must be in English. Entries must not have been
pre-viously published, nor contain any stanzas
previously published, submitted for publication, nor
entered in any other contest. Publication is defined as
an appearance in a printed book, magazine, or journal
(sold or given away), or in any online journal that
presents edited periodic content. The appearance of
poems in online discussion lists or personal Web sites
is not considered publication. Judges will be asked to
disqualify any link that they have seen before.
Submissions: One copy, with full authorship information,
stanza by stanza, must give the full name and address of
all authors, and indicate the coordinator (to whom any
correspondence will be addressed). This ‘identified’
manuscript must be signed by all authors or other
definite confirmations such as hard copies of e-mail
confirmations of permission from each author should be
included with the entry. Three additional copies,
without authors’ names but marked with numbers or
letters to show the sequence of authorship, must
accompany the identified manuscript. Failure to follow
this format makes it impossible to judge an entry and
could result in disqualification without notification.
Entry fee: $10 must accompany manuscript. Please make
checks/money orders payable in U.S. funds to "Haiku
Society of America."
Submit entries and fees to:
Einbond Renku Contest
c/o Francine Barnwarth
985 So. Grandview
Dubuque, IA 52003 USA
Adjudication: The names of the judge(s) will be
announced with the winners.
Awards: Grand Prize: Up to $150 and publication in
Frogpond and on the HSA Web site. All rights revert to
authors on publication. Amount of Grand Prize and
additional prizes may vary, depending on the quality and
number of entries. If no renku is deemed by the judges
to be worthy of the Grand Prize, renku awarded lesser
prizes may or may not be published in Frogpond and on
the HSA Web site.
Correspondence: Sorry, entries cannot be returned.
Please send an SASE (#10 envelope only) for a list of
winning entries. Please note the need for sufficient
postage. One envelope per contest.
Note: Prospective contestants may wish to review the
"Report of the Renku Contest Committee" published in
Frogpond XIII:2 (May 1990) for background on the contest
and renku in general. Download a copy of the HSA Renku
Contest Committee Report. For information on the two
shorter forms, please refer to the article "Shorter
Renku" published in Frogpond XVII:4 (winter 1994), or
the updated version of it at
http://renku.home.att.net/shorter_renku.html;
“Writing a Shisan Renku,” Paul McNeil,
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-2/whcrenku_2000_pm.shtml;
“The Shisan Pattern,” John Carley,
http://www.poetrylives.com/SimplyHaiku/SHv1n6/Shisan_Pattern.htm
Source:
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-contests.htm
