Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts at the Saboteur Awards 2013, Runner Up in Best magazine category.

Logo image:
http://storify.com/richardtwatson/2013-saboteur-awards-the-party?utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&utm_campaign=&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=storify-pingback&awesm=sfy.co_dJvU#

Saboteur Awards 2013
Best 2012 literature, best 2013 literature, Book Club, fiction anthology, Indie Literature, poetry pamphlet, Saboteur Awards, Spoken Word: http://sabotagereviews.com/2013/03/01/saboteur-awards-2013/

Saboteur Awards 2013: The Winners!
http://sabotagereviews.com/2013/05/30/saboteur-awards-2013-the-winners/


Best magazine category:

Winner: Rising.
Runner up: Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts.


'Lakeview' is the only runner up in the Best Magazine category of Saboteur Awards, London.

It's a great achievement for a magazine which has just one issue published and was competing with the established and emerging magazines of the UK and around the world. The winner 'Rising' has been around for twenty years, with Tim Wells a formidable force with a well-deserved win:
http://www.donutpress.co.uk/index.php?authors&id=9

We still have a lot to learn with Lakeview Journal, but what a great start!
http://sabotagereviews.com/tag/lakeview-international-journal-of-literature-and-arts/

Considering the amount of work, from all genres, it was also gratifying to see haiku mentioned, however briefly (no pun intended).

Links to the magazine, and the gendai haiku article:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/lakeview-international-journal-of.html


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Lean times, lean moon haiku in Mainichi Shimbun by Alan Summers

 

lean moon—
the question mark
of a dog's tail

Alan Summers

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Online Tanka Courses and Workshops: The 'early bird rate' of £45 or US$68 for the online tanka course starting on July 1st is still open for another ten days

The 'early bird rate' of £45 or US$68 for the online tanka course starting on July 1st is still open for another ten days - please email: karen@withwords.org.uk for details including quotes from previous students.

Thank you!

Karen

Karen Hoy
With Words

 

Tanka are well-grounded in concrete images yet infused with lyric intensity, with an intimacy from direct expression of emotions tempered with implication, suggestion, and nuance. You can cover almost any subject, explicitly expressing your direct thoughts and feelings. 

Alan Summers, Decoding Tanka (Extract from Article in Progress)

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/dates-for-next-online-haiku-tanka.html


140 And Counting is a collection of the best twitter literature from the first two years of the journal’s history, on relationships, nature, work, animals, seasons, science fiction and fantasy, and mortality:

• ISBN 978-1-937794-05-7 (epub) available for iPad, Nook, etc. from Goodreads.
• ISBN 978-1-937794-03-3 (mobi) available for Kindle on Amazon.com

sometimes

before falling in love

with my wife

again and again

the cries of swifts

Alan Summers (140 And Counting)

a small death

the cracked shell

of a snail

now this delay

at the train station

Alan Summers (Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Vol. 3)

 

One of my haiku selected as Best of Mainichi Shimbun, Japan for 2012 is about Sir John Betjeman, CBE, the poet and savior of St Pancras train station

As many of you know who read my haiku, I'm a big fan of writing about trains and train stations.

My two favourite train stations are St Pancras Station (London, England) and Gare du Nord (Paris, France) followed by two South West England stations Temple Meads and Bath Spa.  But really I love almost every train station I've visited/travelled to and from in the U.K.; Europe; and Japan.

St Pancras Station London photo from Chapman Taylor Architects 301107 www.e-architect.co.uk/london/st_pancras_station_concourse.htm

Sir John Betjeman CBE http://stpancras.com/the-station/history-and-restoration

St Pancras Station: http://stpancras.com/the-station/history-and-restoration
The artist behind the sculpture: http://www.martinjennings.com/