Announcing
the Showcase Haiku Haijin (SHH)
Hello
Sketchbook Writers and Artists and Readers:
A note from Karina.
Some of
you may know, as a woman I love to create new things. In
addition to my Global Correspondents, the Little Black Book,
Contributing Editors and Childwriter's Sketchbook, which
were my last creations to the Sketchbook, I
have a new one,
Showcase Haiku
Haijin,
ie.
SHH!
I will scout out each Sketchbook Issue for
haiku to Showcase. These haiku will be chosen by rigid
standards.
I have
not set a limit to how many haiku will be selected for the
Showcase Haiku
Haijin;
that will be determined and vary each issue depending upon
the haiku submitted and selected for the issue. While our
thread is themed and our kukai has a kigo, the
Showcase Haiku
Haijin (SHH),
will not be restricted to a topic. However, each Showcase
Haiku must have a kigo / season word in the season of the
publication they are submitting to. Showcase Haiku Haijin is
only for Haiku, no other genres. Later we will add Tanka as
a separate showcase.
Haijin may send up to five haiku for each bi-monthly issue:
February, April, June, August, October, and December. Haiku
entered in the
Showcase Haiku
Haijin
(SHH)
must
be previously unpublished; they must not be work shopped;
they must not appear on any list, forum, group, blog, or in
print. In short, if the haiku has appeared on the
internet or in print we consider it to have been published.
The next
deadline is 20, October, 2011 for the September/October 31,
2011 issue.
Any autumn kigo may be selected.
Send to:
Shh@poetrywriting.org
Subject line: SHH and your name
Include
a Reference from which your Autumn kigo word was chosen; for
example:
Autumn Kigo: "morning dew"--autumn season/climate: The
Haiku Handbook. William J. Higginson, p. 277.
Autumn Kigo: "quail"--autum season / animals: The Five
Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words: on-line @
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html
Autumn
Kigo: "harvest time"--autumn season/humanity: World
Kigo Database--on-line:
http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2005/08/harvest-and-its-kigo.html
The World Kigo Datebase also maintains a list
of regional Kigo. Other saijiki sources may also be used;
just be specific.
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The July
/ August Sketchbook issue will not be
published until September 30, 2011 due to the high volume of
submissions and tributes.
Remember
to submit your poems to the Found Poem Contest to be
elegible for the 1st. prize of $50.00 or 2nd
prize of $ 25.00.
Read the
Details here!
Deadline is December 1,
2011.
Send
Found Poems to :
found@poetrywriting.org
Subject
Line: Found Poem Contest plus Poet’s Name
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Sketchbook
“autumn leaves” Kukai:
Enter by October 20, 2011:
read the
details here.
Sketchbook
“cemetery” Haiku Thread:
Enter by October 26, 2011;
read the
details here.
Submissions are open for the September / October 31, 2011Sketchbook.
Submit by October 20, 2021.
Read the
submission guidelines.
Karina Klesko, Sketchbook
Administrator
kk
