Currently open haiku contests 10/1/25

Below is a list of contests for haiku and related forms. All are currently open as of this posting; each contest's deadline is listed before the contest link.

Symbols used:

$ = Monetary prize
$ = Entry fee
º = Limited submission eligibility; see publisher's guidelines
* = Contest host/sponsor claims all rights to submitted poems

And onto the contests:

- 10/13/25: Best Haiku Anthology Competition $ $

- 10/15/25: Penumbra Poetry and Haiku Contest $ $

- 10/30/25: Haunted Haiku Contest

- 10/31/25: Basho-an International English Haiku Competition

- 10/31/25: San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka $ $

- 1/31/26: San Francisco International Competition for Rengay $ $

- 1/31/26: Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition $ $

- 2/28/26: World Children's Haiku Contest - Regional Contest º *

- 5/1/26: San Francisco International Competition for Haibun $ $