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

- White Enso: May 2024 was last issue

Current submission deadlines

- 7/30/24: MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #2 (MacQueen's Quinterly)

- 7/31/24: cattails

- 7/31/24: Poetry Pea (senryū)

- 7/31/24: Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest

- 7/31/24: first frost

- 7/31/24: HSA Haibun Award Contest

- 7/31/24: HSA Haiku Award Contest

- 7/31/24: HSA Senryu Award Contest

- 7/31/24: Poetry Pea (video prompt)

- 7/31/24: Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards

- 7/31/24: The Haibun Journal

- 7/31/24: The Haiku Foundation's Haiku of the Day (theme: "Fresh Starts and Transitions") (thanks The Solitary Daisy)

- 8/1/24: Humana Obscura

- 8/15/24: The Mamba (Africa Haiku Network)

- 8/18/24: WILDsound Haiku Poetry Contest (theme: relationships)

- 8/23/24: Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest (thanks NZPS)

- 8/30/24: Haiku Girl Summerº

- 8/31/24: Acorn

- 8/31/24: Haiku Zooº

- 8/31/24: Porad Haiku Award (Haiku Northwest)

- 8/31/24: International "Kusamakura" Haiku Competition (thanks NZPS)

- 8/31/24: Morioka International Haiku Contest

- 9/4/24: medmic Summer Haiku Contest

- 9/20/24: Fujisan Award

- 9/20/24: HIA Haiku Contest

- 9/30/24: Call for Haiku and Tanka on the Ukraine War (thanks THF)

- 9/30/24: Syracuse Poster Project

- 10/15/24: Penumbra Poetry and Haiku Contest (Tallahassee Writers Association)

- 10/15/24: Tribute to the Haibun (Rattle)

- 10/31/24: San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka (Haiku Poets of Northern California)

- 11/15/24: Under the Basho

- 11/31/24: Best Haiku Anthology Competition (Haiku Crush)

- 12/31/24: Matsuyama Haiku Post Contest

º Limited submission eligibility; see publisher's guidelines

Currently open - no posted deadline

- 17 Syllables a Day (CNN Opinion)

- 5HaikuSpoken

- a fine lineº (NZPS)

- dadakuku

- Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry)

- Haiku Avenue

- haikuNetra: rolling deadlines

- Hakubaku Haiku Contest

- horror senryu journal

- 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

- 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

- 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: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2024

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

- Backbone Press Annual Haiku Chapbook Competition: Oct 15 to Dec 15 2024

- Basho-an International English Haiku Competition: Aug 10 to Nov 10 2024?

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

- Black Bough Poetry: TBA

- Bloodroot Haiku Award: opens Nov 15 2024 (North Carolina Poetry Society)

- bottle rockets: TBA

- British Haiku Society Awards: TBA; deadline Jan 31 2025

- Cafe Haiku: TBA

- Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: TBA

- Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Art Contestº: TBA

- Chrysanthemum: Aug 1 to Sept 1 2024

- Clouds in Paper: TBA (Young Buddhist Editorial)

- Confluence: June 15 to July 15 2025?

- contemporary haibun online: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2024

- Dreamers Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- Drifting Sands: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2024

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

- Echidna Tracks: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2024

- EJCA Spring Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal: Sept 1 to Sept 7 2024 (theme: "food")

- Fireflies' Light: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2024

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

- folk ku journal: Sept 15 to Oct 15 2024 (King River Press)

- Frameless Sky: Sept 15 to Oct 31 2024

- Frogpond: Nov 1 to Nov 30 2024

- Golden Haiku Poetry Contest: TBA; 2025

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

- Haiku Festival Awardsº: TBA; 2025

- Haiku Hike Literary Competition: TBA; 2025

- Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards: TBA; 2025

- Heterodox Haiku Journal: TBA

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

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

- HSA Merit Book Awards: TBA; 2025

- HSA Rengay Award Contest: TBA; 2025

- IHS International Haiku Contest: TBA; 2024?

- ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest: TBA

- Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition: Oct 15 to Oct 20 2024

- Japan Fair Online Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025?

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

- Kingfisher: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2024

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

- Kokako: Nov 1 2024 to Feb 1 2025

- 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)

- Martin Lucas Haiku Award: TBA

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

- Myong Cha Son Haiku Awardº: TBA

- 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: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2024

- Ouachita Life Haiku Lines Contest: Sept 1 to Sept 13 2024

- Pebbles: TBA (Petrichor)

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

- Presence: Aug 15 to Sept 30 2024

- Prune Juice: Oct 1 to Oct 31 2024

- Pulse - Voices from the Heart of Medicine: Oct 1 to Oct 31 2024

- Pure Haiku: TBA

- right hand pointing: Aug 1 to Sept 15 2024

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

- Sakura Haiku Challenge: TBA

- Samurai Haibun Contest: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2024 (UHTS)

- San Francisco International Competition for Haibun: TBA (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 (Sejong Cultural Society)

- Shadow Pond Journal: Nov 10 to Dec 10 2024 (theme: open)

- 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

- Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition: TBA; next deadline Jan 31 2025

- Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest: TBA; 2025

- Songbirds Online: TBA (UHTS)

- SPOOKY Magazine: TBA

- Suspect Device: TBA

- Take 5ive: TBA

- the art of tanka: TBA

- The Bamboo Hut: TBA

- The Cicada's Cry: Sept 1 to Sept 15 2024

- the lickety~split: TBA

- The Pan Haiku Review: reopens mid-Sept to Oct 31 2024 (haibun & tanka prose only)

- The Society of Classical Poets Haiku Competition: TBA; summer 2024?

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

- Time Haiku: Aug 1 to Oct 31 2024

- tinywords: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2024

- Trailblazer Contest: Aug 1 to Aug 14 2024

- Trash Panda: Oct 1 to Oct 15 2024

- Triya: Oct 1 to Oct 15 2024

- tsuri-dōrō: Sept 1 to Sept 10 2024

- ubu.: on hiatus until 2024

- ukiaHaiku Festival Contest: TBA

- whiptail: Oct 1 to Oct 7 2024

- Wales Haiku Journal: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2024

- World Haiku Review: TBA

- Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational: Mar 1 to June 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 Butterfly Dream Haiku Anthology

- NeverEnding Story One Man's Maple Moon Tanka Anthology

- 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

- 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

- 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)

- wildflower poetry press: currently closed to subs

Unsure of status

- Canadian Zen Haiku: last blog post was in 2021

- Cuttlefish Books

- Yarrow Press

While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the market listings and items contained herein, they may not reflect the most up-to-date information. No guarantee is made as to the validity of this information. Please read each market's guidelines before submitting.