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

- 3/28/25: Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest

- 3/30/25: Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Competitionº (HSA)

- 3/31/25: Fireflies' Light

- 3/31/25: Frogpond

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

- 3/31/25: ONE ART Haiku Anthology

- 3/31/25: Poetry Pea (video prompt)

- 3/31/25: Wales Haiku Journal

- 3/31/25: World Haiku Review (theme: "Humanity or on the theme of spring/autumn depending on where you live")

- 4/1/25: Heterodox Haiku Journal (for haiga or taiga; theme: "roots")

- 4/1/25: High/Coo Chapbook Competition (Brooks Books)

- 4/10/25: HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival (The Haiku Foundation)

- 4/15/25: folk ku journal (King River Press)

- 4/15/25: Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest

- 4/17/25: Atomic Academia Haiku Contest

- 4/30/25: Double Horizon anthologyº (Association Francophone de Haïku, l'estran, seashores)

- 5/1/25: Humana Obscura

- 5/5/25: Skipping Stones Haiku and Tanka Contestº

- 5/31/25: Dreamers Haiku Contest

- 5/31/25: New Zealand Poetry Society Competition

- 6/1/25: Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational

- 6/15/25: Hexapod Haiku Challenge (Frost Entomological Museum)

- 7/31/25: Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards

- 11/15/25: Under the Basho

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

- Cuttlefish Books (for horrorku manuscripts)

- dadakuku

- Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry)

- Haiku Avenue

- KFF Health News Morning Briefing

- Persephone's Fruit Literary Journal

- Poem in a Bottle

- 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)

- 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 Solitary Daisy Journal: open every 2 weeks; subs due Wednesday before next issue (themed)

- 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: May 1 to May 31 2025

- Acorn: July 1 to Aug 31 2025

- AHA Haiku Contest: TBA; site not updated since June 2024 (UHTS)

- Atlanta Haiku Festival Competition: TBA; early 2026?

- Backbone Press Annual Haiku Chapbook Competition: Oct 15 to Dec 15 2025?

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

- Basho-an International English Haiku Competition: TBA

- Best Haiku Anthology Competition: reopens in June 2025 (Haiku Crush)

- Betty Drevniok Award: TBA; late 2025 or early 2026 (Haiku Canada)

- Black Bough Poetry: TBA

- Bloodroot Haiku Award: TBA (North Carolina Poetry Society)

- bottle rockets: Apr 1 to May 15 2025

- British Haiku Society Awards: TBA; late 2025

- Cafe Haiku: TBA

- cattails: July 1 to July 31 2025

- Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: TBA

- Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Art Contestº: TBA

- Clouds in Paper: TBA (Young Buddhist Editorial)

- Confluence: June 15 to July 15 2025?

- contemporary haibun online: May 1 to May 31 2025

- Chrysanthemum: Aug 1 to Sept 1 2025

- Drifting Sands: Apr 1 to Apr 15 2025

- Eccentric Orbits annual anthology: TBA (Dimensionfold Publishing)

- Echidna Tracks: Apr 1 to Apr 30 2025

- EJCA Spring Haiku Contest: TBA

- Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal: May 1 to May 15 2025 (theme: "At the Sky Gates")

- Fleeting Words Tanka Contest: TBA; site not updated since June 2024 (UHTS)

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

- first frost: July 1 to July 31 2025

- Fujisan Award: reopens June 1 2025?

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

- Haiku Festival Awardsº: TBA

- Haiku Girl Summerº: TBA

- Haiku Hike Literary Competition: TBA; late 2025 or early 2026?

- Haiku Zooº: July 1 to Aug 31 2025

- hedgerow (print journal): May 7 to May 21 2025

- hedgerow (vines): currently closed

- Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards: TBA

- HIA Haiku Contest: TBA

- 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 2026?

- HSA Rengay Award Contest: TBA

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

- IHS International Haiku Contest: expect to reopen ~ Nov 2025

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

- ISPS Poetry Contest: TBA (2 haiku categories)

- ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest: TBA

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

- Japan Fair Online Haiku Contest: TBA

- John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku: TBA; late 2025 or early 2026? (Australian Haiku Society)

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

- Kingfisher: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2025

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

- Kokako: TBA

- Kyoto Writing Competition: TBA

- l’estran: TBA

- Leaf: Journal of the Daily Haiku: TBA

- MacQueen's Quinterlyº: June 1 to June 7 2025

- Marianne Bluger Book and Chapbook Awards: TBA; 2026 (Haiku Canada)

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

- Martin Lucas Haiku Award: TBA; late 2025 or early 2026

- Matsuyama Haiku Post Contest: TBA

- Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest: TBA; early 2026?

- medmic Summer Haiku Contest: TBA; summer 2025

- Morioka International Haiku Contest: TBA

- Mycelium and Fungus Haiku Anthology: TBA (Cuttlefish Books)

- Myong Cha Son Haiku Awardº: TBA

- Noon: Journal of the Short Poem: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2025

- Pebbles: TBA (Petrichor)

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

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

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

- Presence: Apr 15 to May 31 2025

- Prix Jocelyne-Villeneuve: TBA (Haiku Canada)

- Prune Juice: June 1 to June 30 2025

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

- Pure Haiku: TBA

- Rachel Sutcliffe Memorial Haiku-arts Contest: TBA; Dec 2025? (Drifting Sands)

- right hand pointing: May 1 to June 15 2025

- Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards Competition: TBA; 2026 (Modern Haiku)

- Roll 'Bama Roll Haiku Contest: TBA

- Sakura Haiku Challenge: TBA

- Samurai Haibun Contest: TBA; site not updated since June 2024 (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)

- San Francisco International Competition for Rengay: TBA (Haiku Poets of Northern California)

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

- Sejong Writing Competition: TBA; late 2025 / early 2026? (Sejong Cultural Society)

- Sense & Sensibility: TBA

- Shadow Pond Journal: TBA

- Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2026

- "Small Wonders" Haiku Contest: TBA

- Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition: TBA; 2025

- Songbirds Online: TBA; site not updated since June 2024 (UHTS)

- Sonic Boom: Apr 15 to Apr 30 2025

- SPOOKY Magazine: TBA

- Sunflower Tanka: TBA; will announce theme Sept 1 2025

- Suspect Device: TBA

- Syracuse Poster Project: TBA; 2025?

- Take 5ive: TBA

- the art of tanka: TBA

- The Bamboo Hut: TBA

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

- The Haibun Journal: July 1 to July 31 2025

- the lickety~split: TBA; possibly reopening in spring 2025

- The Mamba: May 15 to Aug 15 2025 (Africa Haiku Network)

- 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: Aug 1 to Sept 15 2025 (thanks Ed Bremson)

- tinywords: Aug 1 to Aug 31 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: June 1 to June 15 2025

- tsuri-dōrō: May 1 to May 10 2025

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

- Weybridge Haiku Contestº: TBA; 2026?

- whiptail: May 1 to May 7 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 (under 16s)
- 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)

- horror senryu journal: on hiatus

- 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

- Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm (KMTA) Haiku Poetry Contest: TBA; last contest was in 2022

- 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

- 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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