The new issue of Shamrock Haiku Journal, the online magazine of the Irish Haiku Society, is now available at www.shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm Shamrock is an international quarterly online journal that publishes quality haiku, senryu and haibun in English, and has a home page at http://www.shamrockhaiku.webs.com
Shamrock Haiku Journal is calling for submissions from local, national and international haiku poets for the next issue, which will be out in early September 2009. Please submit your work to the editor, Anthony Anatoly Kudryavitsky, at irishhaikusociety[at]hotmail.com
The deadline for submissions is 31st August, 2009. See submissions guidelines at http://www.shamrockhaiku.webs.com/submissions.htm .
Also, please find attached Irish Haiku Society Newsletter, the latest issue (also available here: http://irishhaiku.webs.com/IHS%20News%20June%20to%20August%202009.pdf )
Among the haiku news we highlight the following:
GINKO 2009
The Irish Haiku Society will conduct a ginko (an organised haiku-writing walk/excursion) in Dun Laoghaire / Sandycove on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at noon. The meeting point is the main entrance to Sandycove Dart Station. Everybody is very welcome to join us! Writing haiku or other poems in the course of a ginko is not in the least obligatory.
For further details please email: irishhaikusociety[at]hotmail.com or phone +353 87 123 0502
IHS International Haiku Competition 2009
The Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition offers prizes of Euro 150, Euro 50 and Euro 30 for unpublished haiku/senryu in English. In addition there will be up to seven Highly Commended haiku/senryu.
All the entries shall be postmarked by 31th October 2009. No e-mail submissions, please! Details here: http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm
With best regards,
Anthony Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Ph.D.
Chairman, the Irish Haiku Society
Dublin, Ireland
e. irishhaikusociety@hotmail.com
