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

- bottle rockets: new editor - Tom Sacramona

Current submission deadlines

- 7/1/25: Kokako

- 7/1/25: Leaf: Journal of the Daily Haiku

- 7/10/25: tsuri-dōrō

- 7/15/25: Confluence

- 7/15/25: Drifting Sands (theme: "peace and related themes")

- 7/15/25: Sonic Boom

- 7/19/25: August 19th Haiku Memorial Day/Haiku Competition (thanks HIA)

- 7/20/25: "Shigureki" National Haiku Competition* (thanks HIA)

- 7/25/25: Issa Village Haiku Competition (thanks HIA)

- 7/31/25: cattails

- 7/31/25: first frost

- 7/31/25: Frogpond

- 7/31/25: National Haiku Magazine Association Newcomer Award (thanks HIA)

- 7/31/25: Poetry Pea (video prompt)

- 7/31/25: Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards

- 7/31/25: Tanka Society of America Tanka Prose Contest

- 7/31/25: The Haibun Journal

- 8/1/25: Humana Obscura

- 8/15/25: Haiku Girl Summerº (thanks The Solitary Daisy)

- 8/15/25: The Mamba (Africa Haiku Network)

- 8/15/25: Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition (thanks Joshua St. Claire)

- 8/31/25: Acorn

- 8/31/25: International "Kusamakura" Haiku Competition

- 8/31/25: Northern Haiku Project anthology (theme: "SPRING and SUMMER")

- 9/1/25: Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest

- 9/4/25: medmic Spring/Summer Haiku Contest

- 9/20/25: Fujisan Award

- 9/20/25: HIA Haiku Contest

- 9/30/25: Haiku Zooº

- 10/13/25: Best Haiku Anthology Competition (Haiku Crush)

- 10/31/25: San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka (Haiku Poets of Northern California)

- 11/15/25: Under the Basho

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

º Limited submission eligibility; see publisher's guidelines

* Contest sponsor claims all rights to submitted poems

** Publisher claims copyright of submitted poems

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

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

- horror senryu journal

- KFF Health News Morning Briefing

- Persephone's Fruit Literary Journal

- Poem in a Bottle

- Raining Rengay

- Setu***

- The Culinary Saijiki: Holidays: no set deadline

- The Woodside Review (seeking haiku sequences & haibun) (thanks Joshua St. Claire)

- Thread Lit Mag

- wlovolw: guidelines TBA

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)

Upcoming contests & reading periods

- #FemkuMagº: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2025

- 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

- 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: Nov 1 to Dec 15 2025

- British Haiku Society Awards: TBA; late 2025

- Cafe Haiku: TBA

- Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: TBA

- Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Art Contestº: TBA

- contemporary haibun online: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2025

- Chrysanthemum: Aug 1 to Sept 1 2025

- Dreamers Haiku Contest: TBA; 2026 (deadline May 31 2026)

- Eccentric Orbits annual anthology: TBA (Dimensionfold Publishing)

- Echidna Tracks: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2025

- EJCA Spring Haiku Contest: TBA; ~May 2026

- Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal: Aug 1 to Aug 15 2025 (theme: "tea, coffee")

- Eugene McDermott Library Annual Haiku Contestº*: TBA; 2026

- Fireflies' Light: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2025

- Flying Fish Haiku Journal: TBA

- folk ku journal: Sept 15 to Oct 15 2025 (King River Press)

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

- Haiku Festival Awardsº: TBA; early 2026?

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

- hedgerow (print journal): Sept 3 to Sept 17 2025

- hedgerow (vines): currently closed

- Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards: TBA

- Heterodox Haiku Journal: TBA

- Hexapod Haiku Challenge: TBA; 2026 (Frost Entomological Museum)

- High/Coo Chapbook Competition: Jan 1 to Apr 1 2026 (Brooks Books)

- HSA Haibun Award Contest: June 1 toJune 30 2026

- HSA Haiku Award Contest: June 1 toJune 30 2026

- HSA Merit Book Awards: Jan 1 to Feb 15 2026?

- HSA Rengay Award Contest: Apr 1 to May 31 2026?

- HSA Senryu Award Contest: June 1 toJune 30 2026

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

- ISPS Poetry Contest: TBA (2 haiku categories)

- ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest: TBA; Nov 2025?

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

- Japan Fair Online Haiku Contest: TBA; 2026

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

- Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest: TBA; 2026

- 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; 2026 (Yuki Teikei Haiku Society)

- Kyoto Writing Competition: TBA

- l’estran: TBA

- MacQueen's Quinterly: Oct 21 to Oct 27 2025 (only open to "Folks New-to-MacQ")

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

- Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contestº: TBA; ~June 2026 (#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 Fall/Winter Haiku Contest: TBA

- Morioka International Haiku Contest: TBA

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

- Myong Cha Son Haiku Awardº: TBA

- New Zealand Poetry Society Competition: Mar 15 to May 31 2026

- Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Competitionº: TBA; 2026 (HSA)

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

- Pebbles: TBA (Petrichor)

- Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards: TBA 2026; deadline June 1 2026 (The Heron's Nest)

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

- Porad Haiku Award: July 14 to Aug 31 2025 (Haiku Northwest)

- Presence: Aug 15 to Sept 30 2025

- Prix Jocelyne-Villeneuve: TBA (Haiku Canada)

- Prune Juice: Oct 1 to Oct 31 2025

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

- Pure Haiku: TBA

- Quail Eggs: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2025 (thanks Joshua St. Claire)

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

- right hand pointing: Aug 1 to Sept 15 2025

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

- Roll 'Bama Roll Haiku Contest: TBA

- Sakura Haiku Challenge: TBA

- 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 2026 (Tanka Society of America)

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

- Sense & Sensibility: TBA

- Shadow Pond Journal: Nov 10 to Dec 10 2025 (open theme)

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

- Skipping Stones Haiku and Tanka Contestº: TBA; 2026?

- "Small Wonders" Haiku Contest: TBA

- Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest: TBA

- SPOOKY Magazine: TBA

- Star Haiku Contest*: Apr 1 to May 31 2026?

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

- Suspect Device: TBA

- Syracuse Poster Project: TBA; Aug 2025?

- Take 5ive: TBA

- Tendrils: TBA; 2026? (Poetry Pea)

- the art of tanka: TBA

- The Bamboo Hut: TBA

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

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

- The Pan Haiku Review: TBA

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

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

- TheHumanist.com Annual Haiku Contest: TBA; 2026

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

- tinywords: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2025

- Trailblazer Contest: TBA

- Trash Panda: Oct 1 to Oct 15 2026

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

- Triya: Oct 1 to Oct 15 2025

- ukiaHaiku Festival Contest: TBA; no 2025 contest

- Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational: Mar 1 to June 1 2026

- Wales Haiku Journal: Sept 1 to Sept 30 2025

- Weybridge Haiku Contestº: TBA; 2026?

- whiptail: Oct 21 to Oct 27 2025

- World Haiku Review: TBA

- Yavanika Press: May 1 to June 30 2026

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

- Postcard

- 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)

On hiatus / closed for an extended time

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

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

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

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

- Clouds in Paper: TBA; submissions paused (Young Buddhist Editorial)

- DailyHaiku: subs closed until further notice

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

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

- 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

- 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

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

- Scarlet Dragonfly Journal: publication suspended May 2024

- Skylark: taking a long hiatus

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

- 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

- 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

- Yarrow Press

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