Haiku market news and deadlines

This page will be updated as regularly as time permits with current deadlines, reading periods, and other news pertaining to writing and publishing haiku. The publishers listed below generally focus on haiku, senryu, tanka, related forms, and other types of micropoetry.

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Market news

- Frameless Sky: on indefinite hiatus

- haikuNetra: indefinite hiatus

Current submission deadlines

- 12/10/24: Shadow Pond Journal (theme: open)

- 12/15/24: Rachel Sutcliffe Memorial Haiku-arts Contest (Drifting Sands) (thanks Seaview)

- 12/15/24: right hand pointing

- 12/21/24: Poetry Pea (split sequences)

- 12/31/24: Filipino Haiku and Senryu Anthologyº

- 12/31/24: IHS International Haiku Contest

- 12/31/24: Matsuyama Haiku Post Contest

- 12/31/24: Wales Haiku Journal

- 1/1/25: SPOOKY Magazine

- 1/14/25: Wax Poetry and Art Haiku Contest (thanks Seaview)

- 1/14/25: Wax Poetry and Art Haiku Suite Contest

- 1/15/25: The Mamba (Africa Haiku Network)

- 1/31/25: British Haiku Society Awards

- 1/31/25: Haiku Canada Members' Anthologyº

- 1/31/25: Martin Lucas Haiku Award

- 1/31/25: San Francisco International Competition for Rengay (Haiku Poets of Northern California)

- 1/31/25: Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition

- 2/1/25: Bloodroot Haiku Award (North Carolina Poetry Society)

- 2/1/25: Humana Obscura

- 2/1/25: Kokako

- 2/17/25: Myong Cha Son Haiku Awardº

- 2/28/25: ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest

- 2/28/25: Sejong Writing Competition (Sejong Cultural Society)

- 3/1/25: John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku (Australian Haiku Society) (thanks Seaview)

- 3/31/25: medmic Fall/Winter Haiku Contest

- 4/17/25: Atomic Academia Haiku Contest

- 7/31/25: Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards

º Limited submission eligibility; see publisher's guidelines

Currently open - no posted deadline

- 17 Syllables a Day (CNN Opinion)

- 5HaikuSpoken

- a fine lineº (NZPS)

- Cake Moth Press

- dadakuku: closing from Dec 20 2024 until Jan 1 2025 (announcement)

- Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry)

- Haiku Avenue

- KFF Health News Morning Briefing

- Persephone's Fruit Literary Journal

- Raining Rengay

- Setu***

- The Culinary Saijiki: Holidays: no set deadline

- Thread Lit Mag

- wlovolw: guidelines TBA

*** Publisher requires formal notification if writer plans to republishes work

Monthly/regular contests & reading periods

- Akitsu Quarterly: opens Jan 1 & May 1; stays open until full

- Basho's Haiku Journeys Haiku Contest: quarterly contest; closes the last day of Jan, Apr, July, Oct

- dewdrops: Weekly Haiku and Print Anthology: closes each Sunday (The Dewdrop) (thanks Joshua St. Claire)

- English-Speaking Union of Japan - Haiku (ESUJ-H) Monthly Program: closes the 25th of each month

- Haiga in Focus: open 1st to 20th of each month

- ITO EN The Art of Haiku Contest*: open 1st to last day of each month, Jan to Oct

- Kyoto Haiku Project

- Monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge: open 1st to last day of each month (themed)

- On the Happiness of Haiku Writing Monthly Kukai: open 1st to last day of each month

- Ouachita Life Haiku Lines Contest: open 1st to 13th of each odd-numbered month

- The Wee Sparrow Haiku Nook: open 1st to 15th of each month

- THF Monthly Kukai: open 1st to 15th of each month (themed)

- Zen Peacemakers Monthly Haiku Showcase: open 1st to 25th of each month (themed)

* Contest sponsor claims all rights to submitted poems

Upcoming contests & reading periods

- #FemkuMagº: Jan 1 to Jan 31 2025

- Acorn: Jan 1 to Feb 28 2025

- AHA Haiku Contest: Jan 1 to Jan 31 2025 (UHTS)

- Backbone Press Annual Haiku Chapbook Competition: scheduled for Oct 15 to Dec 15 2024, but no open calls per Submittable

- Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest: TBA; next deadline July 31 2025

- Basho-an International English Haiku Competition: TBA; 2025

- Best Haiku Anthology Competition: TBA (Haiku Crush)

- Betty Drevniok Award: reopens Dec 2024? (Haiku Canada)

- Black Bough Poetry: Dec 14 2024 to Jan 1 2025

- bottle rockets: TBA

- Cafe Haiku: TBA

- cattails: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2025

- Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: TBA

- Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Art Contestº: TBA

- Chrysanthemum: Feb 1 to Mar 1 2025

- Clouds in Paper: TBA (Young Buddhist Editorial)

- Confluence: June 15 to July 15 2025?

- contemporary haibun online: Jan 1 to Jan 31 2025

- Dreamers Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- Drifting Sands: TBA; 2025

- Eccentric Orbits annual anthology: TBA; 2025 (Dimensionfold Publishing)

- Echidna Tracks: Apr 1 to Apr 30 2025

- EJCA Spring Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal: Feb 1 to Feb 15 2025 (theme: "blossoms")

- Fireflies' Light: Mar 1 to Mar 31 2025

- first frost: Jan 1 to Jan 31 2025

- Fleeting Words Tanka Contest: May 1 to May 31 2025? (UHTS)

- Flying Fish Haiku Journal: June 1 to June 30 2025 (tentative)

- folk ku journal: Mar 15 to Apr 15 2025 (King River Press)

- Frogpond: Mar 1 to Mar 31 2025

- Fujisan Award: reopens June 1 2025?

- Golden Haiku Poetry Contest: TBA; 2025

- H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest: May or June 2025

- Haiku Festival Awardsº: TBA; 2025

- Haiku Girl Summerº: TBA; 2025?

- Haiku Hike Literary Competition: TBA; 2025

- Haiku Zooº: Jan 1 to Feb 28 2025

- Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards: TBA; 2025

- Heterodox Haiku Journal: TBA

- Hexapod Haiku Challenge: Mar 15 to June 15 2025?

- HIA Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- High/Coo Chapbook Competition: Jan 1 to Apr 1 2025? (Brooks Books)

- horror senryu journal: on hiatus

- HSA Haibun Award Contest: June 1 to July 31 2025

- HSA Haiku Award Contest: June 1 to July 31 2025

- HSA Merit Book Awards: Jan 1 to Feb 15 2025

- HSA Rengay Award Contest: TBA; 2025

- HSA Senryu Award Contest: June 1 to July 31 2025

- International "Kusamakura" Haiku Competition: June 1 to Aug 31 2025?

- ISPS Poetry Contest: TBA; 2025 (2 haiku categories)

- Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition: Oct 15 to Oct 20 2025?

- Japan Fair Online Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025?

- Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm (KMTA) Haiku Poetry Contest: TBA

- KFF Health News Halloween Health Care Haiku Competition: opens Oct 1 2025?

- Kingfisher: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2025

- Kiyoshi & Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025 (Yuki Teikei Haiku Society)

- Kyoto Writing Competition: TBA; 2025?

- l’estran: TBA

- Leaf: Journal of the Daily Haiku: TBA

- MacQueen's Quinterly: TBA; 2025

- Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contestº: June 2025 (#FemkuMag)

- Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest: reopens Jan 1 2025?

- medmic Summer Haiku Contest: TBA; summer 2025

- Morioka International Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- New Zealand Poetry Society Competition: TBA; 2025

- Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Student Haiku and Senryu Competitionº: TBA; 2025 (HSA)

- Noon: Journal of the Short Poem: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2025

- Pebbles: TBA (Petrichor)

- Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards: TBA; 2025 (The Heron's Nest)

- Penumbra Poetry and Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025 (Tallahassee Writers Association)

- Porad Haiku Award: TBA; summer 2025 (Haiku Northwest)

- Presence: Dec 15 2024 to Jan 15 2025

- Prune Juice: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2025?

- Pulse - Voices from the Heart of Medicine: TBA ~ autumn 2025

- Pure Haiku: TBA

- Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards Competition: TBA; 2025 (Modern Haiku)

- Roll 'Bama Roll Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- Sakura Haiku Challenge: TBA; 2025?

- Samurai Haibun Contest: TBA (UHTS)

- San Francisco International Competition for Haibun: TBA; next deadline May 1 2025? (Haiku Poets of Northern California)

- San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka: TBA; next deadline Oct 31 2025? (Haiku Poets of Northern California)

- Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest: Apr 1 to May 31 2025 (Tanka Society of America)

- Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest: Feb 1 to Feb 29 2025

- Skipping Stones Haiku and Tanka Contestº: TBA; late 2024 or early 2025

- "Small Wonders" Haiku Contest: TBA

- Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- Songbirds Online: TBA (UHTS)

- Suspect Device: TBA

- Syracuse Poster Project: TBA; 2025?

- Take 5ive: TBA

- the art of tanka: TBA

- The Bamboo Hut: TBA

- The Cicada's Cry: Feb 1 to Feb 15 2025

- The Haibun Journal: Jan 1 to Jan 31 2025

- the lickety~split: TBA

- The Pan Haiku Review: May 3 to May 11 2025 (for haibun & tanka prose)

- The Society of Classical Poets Haiku Competition: TBA; 2025 (usually opens ~ Aug, closes ~ Sept)

- The Starlight SciFaiku Review: TBA (Starship Sloane Publishing)

- Time Haiku: Feb 1 to Apr 30 2025

- tinywords: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2025

- Tomato Art Fest Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025?

- Trailblazer Contest: TBA

- Trash Panda: May 1 to May 15 2025

- Triveni Haiku Awards: Oct 1 to Oct 15 2025?

- Triya: Jan 1 to Jan 15 2025

- tsuri-dōrō: Jan 1 to Jan 10 2025

- ukiaHaiku Festival Contest: TBA; doesn't expect to hold a contest in 2025

- Under the Basho: Mar 1 to Nov 15 2025?

- whiptail: Jan 1 to Jan 7 2025

- World Haiku Review: TBA

- Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational: Mar 1 to June 1 2025

- Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest: reopens July 1 2025?

- Yavanika Press: May 1 to June 30 2025

Open year-round

- Ardea

- Asahi Haikuist Network

- Autumn Moon Haiku Journal

- bear creek haiku

- Black & White Haiga/Haisha

- Chalk on the Walk Monoku

- Cold Moon Journal (monthly deadlines)
- Creative Inspirations

- Creatrix

- DailyHaiga

- Eastern Structures
- Eucalypt: a tanka journal

- Failed Haiku (open 10th to 25th, now odd-numbered months only)

- Folded Word
- FreshOut

- Geppoº

- Gusts (Tanka Canada)

- Haiku Canada Review (biannual deadlines)

- Haiku in Action (Nick Virgilio Haiku Association)

- Haiku Commentary

- Haiku Sansaar

- Haikuniverse
- hedgerow
- Heliosparrow

- Icebox

- Laurelsº

- Light Haiku

- Living Haiku Anthology

- Lothlorien Poetry Journal

- MahMight haiku journal

- Mariposaº (Mar 1 & Sept 1 issue deadlines)

- Mayfly

- Modern Haiku

- NeverEnding Story - Biting NOT Barking (haiku & tanka)

- NeverEnding Story - Butterfly Dream (haiku)

- NeverEnding Story - One Man's Maple Moon (tanka)

- Password

- red lights (biannual deadlines)

- Ribbons

- seashores (biannual deadlines)

- Scifaikuest (Hiraeth Publishing)

- Shot Glass Journal (triannual  deadlines)

- Sommergras

- Spillwords

- The 5-7-5 Haiku Journal (Atlantean Publishing)

- the cherita

- The Haiku Reader

- The Heron's Nest
- The Mainichi**
- the other bunny

- The Sciku Project

- THF Haiku Dialogue (open weekly, Wednesday to Saturday; themed)

- Viewing Stone Association of North America (VSANA)

** Publisher claims copyright of submitted poems

On hiatus / closed for an extended time

- 50 Haikus: all Prolific Press journals currently closed to subs (Prolific Press)

- American Tanka: on indefinite hiatus
- Better Than Starbucks: on hiatus; future plans undecided

- Chanokeburi: appears to be dormant; last website post was in 2019

- DailyHaiku: subs closed until further notice

- Fastened to the Reins: no longer being published? website is gone, email bounces back

- Frameless Sky: on indefinite hiatus

- Haiku Corner: no longer accepting subs (The Japan Society)

- Haiku Journal: all Prolific Press journals currently closed to subs (Prolific Press)

- Haiku Seed Journal: tentatively expected to reopen in Feb/Mar 2023

- haikuNetra: indefinite hiatus (announcement on Facebook)

- HSA Renku Award Contest: suspended until further notice

- IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award: on hiatus

- is/let: closed to subs since Jan 2022

- Isobar Press: currently closed to unsolicited subs

- kontinuum: on indefinite hiatus

- Minglewood: appears dormant; last YouTube upload & tweet are from over 10 years ago

- Moth Orchid Press: no current sub calls

- Narrow Road: temp closed (website down)

- Nun Prophet Press: temp closed to subs

- Scarlet Dragonfly Journal: publication suspended May 2024

- Skylark: taking a long hiatus

- Sonic Boom: on hiatus until Jan 2025

- Stardust Haiku: on hiatus

- The Culinary Saijiki: on hiatus while editor works on book

- The Haiku Pond: on indefinite hiatus

- the QuillS: on hiatus

- Three Line Poetry: all Prolific Press journals currently closed to subs (Prolific Press)

- ubu.: on hiatus until 2024

- wildflower poetry press: currently closed to subs

Unsure of status

- Canadian Zen Haiku: last blog post was in 2021 (checked 8/18/24)

- Cuttlefish Books

- Ichigyoshi: no blog posts, no Twitter/web search results, no response to email

- Tendrils (Poetry Pea)

- Yarrow Press

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