Deadline |
Entries should be postmarked by April 30, 2008. Overseas (non-UK) entries mailed in the month up to and including this closing date must be sent by airmail. |
Awards |
£300/US $600 total prize money. 12 haiku will be selected as monthly winners and will be published prominently in The Haiku Calendar 2009. The prize money will be divided equally between the 12 winners. 40 additional haiku will be selected as runners-up and these will also be published in the calendar. Entrants may win more than one prize. |
Regulations |
Haiku should ideally include a season word or activity. This may be a direct reference to a specific day, month or season (e.g. New Year’s Day, June, winter), or a phenomenon or activity associated with a particular season. Seasonality should ideally align with the traditional Japanese (and English) consideration that the equinoxes and solstices occur at the midpoints of their respective seasons. Haiku may be free-form or 5-7-5 and must be the original work of the entrant. Previously published work is acceptable, though haiku previously published by Snapshot Press are not eligible. Any number of haiku may be entered. |
Entry procedure |
Each haiku entered should be typed or written legibly in English on a single 3" x 5" (75mm x 125mm) card. Your name should not appear on this card. Each haiku must be assigned to a month. This month should be written on the reverse of the 3" x 5" card. (Entrants from Australia and New Zealand are advised to transpose composition dates by six months.) The first line of each haiku entered should be recorded on a separate sheet of paper along with the corresponding month. (No entry form is necessary, though one is available in pdf format here if required.) Your real name and your address should be recorded on this entry sheet only. If you would prefer to be published under a pen name, or for your name to appear in a distinctive fashion (e.g. all lower-case letters), please also write this prominently on the entry sheet. |
Entry fee |
£2.50/US $5 per haiku, £5/US $10 for three haiku, and £10/US $20 for up to ten haiku. Please make cheques/postal orders payable to “Snapshot Press”. US checks and banknotes are accepted. Euro banknotes will be accepted at the same rate as US dollars. Please do not send cheques or postal/money orders in Euro currency. N.B. Please do not send cheques or postal/money orders drawn on banks etc. in countries other than the UK (sterling) and USA (US dollars). (Entrants in Canada, Australia and New Zealand should send US or sterling banknotes, unless they have a US- or UK-based bank account.) |
Address for entries |
THCC, Snapshot Press, PO Box 132, Waterloo, Liverpool, L22 8WZ, UK. |
Notification of results |
Results will be announced on June 30, 2008. If you would like to receive notification of the results as soon as they are available please include your email address on the entry sheet, or enclose an SAE marked ‘THCC Results’ (+ 1 International Reply Coupon or a US $1 bill internationally). The Haiku Calendar 2009 will be published by Snapshot Press in August 2008. Copies can be ordered in advance at £7.00 UK; £8.50/US $17 Overseas (post-paid). Please enclose payment and state number of copies ordered on the entry sheet. The Haiku Calendar 2008 can be ordered here. |
Correspondence |
Poem cards cannot be returned – please keep copies of your work. The decision of the adjudicator is final. No correspondence will be entered into. |
Rights |
All rights revert to the authors upon publication. Entry in the competition is deemed to be acceptance of these rules. |
Adjudicator |
John Barlow is the editor of The Haiku Calendar, which has appeared annually since 2000, and co-editor of The New Haiku (2002). He also edited the haiku magazine Snapshots from 1998-2006. His own collections include Flamingo Shapes (2001) and Waiting for the Seventh Wave (2006), and his haiku have received awards in the UK, US, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. |
