Wednesday, January 1, 2020

January haiku contest deadlines, other market news

Haiku poets have plenty of submission options this month. The following contests close in January:

Bloodroot Haiku Award: 1/12
     - $60 and $30 prizes
     - $5 entry fee for non-NCPS members
     - US postmark deadline: 1/6
     - Only 1 poem per category

Annual Betty Drevniok Award: 1/22
     - No cash prizes
     - No entry fee
     - Can read previous winning poems on the contest page
     - Up to 3 poems

UHTS “AHA” Haiku/Senryu Contest: 1/31
     - No cash prizes
     - No entry fee
     - Up to 10 poems

Snapshot Press 2020 Haiku Calendar Competition: 1/31
     - $600 in prize money divided among 12 winners
     - $15 entry fee for up to 4 haiku, or $30 for up to 12
     - Published poems OK

It has a deadline of February 1st, but the Utah State Poetry Society Contest has haiku and tanka categories. The haiku category is members-only, but the tanka category is open to anyone.

The Mamba Journal is reading submissions until January 15th. Skylark stops reading on February 1st.

For speculative writers, Space and Time closes to submissions tomorrow (January 2nd) and Freeze Frame Fiction closes on the 31st.

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