The Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12

http://www.hsa-haiku.org/virgilioawards/Virgilio-contest-guidelines.htm

Deadline: In hand by March 25, 2017. Entries received after that date will not be accepted.

Eligibility: Any student in grades 7 through 12 enrolled in school as of September 2016 may enter.

Regulations: Submit up to three haiku per student. 

All haiku or senryu must be previously unpublished, original work, and not entered in any other contest or submitted elsewhere for publication. Please follow the guidelines carefully. Publication is defined as an appearance in a printed book, magazine, or journal (sold or given away), or in any online journal that presents edited periodic content. The appearance of poems in online discussion lists or personal websites is not considered publication. Judges will be asked to disqualify any haiku that they have seen before.

Permissions:

By entering the contest, you are granting permission for the Nicholas A. Virgilio Haiku Association and Haiku Society of America to print the award haiku and/or senryu on the Web.
ALSO, by entering the contest you are granting permission for the Nicholas A. Virgilio Haiku Association to print your poem in any possible future haiku anthologies sponsored by NVHA. Contestants may opt out of publication by emailing <NickVirgilioHaiku@gmail.com>. 

Submissions: 

New Online Submissions:
The NVHA & HSA have implemented a new online web submission process to simplify entries in the Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition. We STRONGLY encourage all submissions online but will still accept paper submissions this year during the transition. 

Go to online entry form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmU-wEipEFcSJEQ3MA7f_Cb3NBfONsqV6vV3IW4EV7YSfLnw/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=send_form

Contest page: http://www.hsa-haiku.org/virgilioawards/Virgilio-contest-guidelines.htm 

History and Purpose of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association

Mission Statement

To promote the creative and spiritual exercise of writing haiku and other poetry by all - and especially by young people- as a way to encourage literacy, appreciation of nature and human nature, and the value of connected community. Also, to further the work and poetry of Camden's son, Nick Virgilio on our own and in partnership with academic, civic, cultural and other institutions and their resources.

https://nickvirgilio.squarespace.com/about/

World Monuments Fund invites entries for their second FREE TO ENTER annual haiku contest during National Poetry Month, April 2013

HAIKU CONTEST GUIDELINES
http://www.wmf.org/get-involved/haiku-contest

World Monuments Fund invites entries for their second annual haiku contest.

Haiku is a traditional Japanese form that emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.

Submission

Submissions are accepted April 1-30, 2013.

All haiku must be submitted through the online submission form:
http://www.wmf.org/get-involved/2013-haiku-contest

All haiku must be previously unpublished and submitted through the online submission form.

All haiku styles accepted.

One entry per individual.

Awards

First Prize, $100; Second Prize, $75; Third Prize, $50; and three semi-finalists.

All six winning haiku will be published on WMF’s website.


Adjudication

Alan Summers who runs With Words, will adjudicate.

Need inspiration? 
Explore World Monuments Fund's projects in Japan, or all field projects:

Japan:
http://www.wmf.org/our-projects/project-map?tid=All&tid_1=All&tid_2=All&tid_3=All&watch_year=All&country=Japan&funder=All&list=1

Rest of the World:
http://www.wmf.org/our-projects/project-map


Rights

All rights revert to the authors after publication.


More about the WMF Haiku Contest Judge Alan Summers

Alan Summers runs With Words, a nonprofit that provides literature, education, and literacy projects, often based around Japanese literary genres.

He is a recipient of the Japan Times Award and the Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto Peace Museum Award for haiku.

Alan is a founding haiku editor for Bones Journal, and serves as Special Feature editor of haiku/haibun for the Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts. He has four haiku collections, the most recent being Does Fish-God Know, and has also co-edited various haiku-based anthologies:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/does-fish-god-know-haiku-collection-by.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/new-book-review-of-does-fish-god-know.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/a-must-have-book-for-any-haiku-fan.html

His haiku has appeared in 75 anthologies in fifteen languages, including Japanese, and has been printed in Japanese newspapers including Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, The Japan Times, and The Mie Times. A forthcoming work is Writing Poetry: the haiku way.

Alan is currently working on two novels, and also The Kigo Lab Project. He blogs at Area 17 and is a featured haiku poet at Cornell University, Mann Library: http://tinyurl.com/MannCornell-AlanSummers

Alan also runs popular online haiku workshops:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/dates-for-next-online-haiku-tanka.html

National Poetry Month at WMF
http://www.wmf.org/national-poetry-month

Newstead Abbey is best known today as the ancestral home of Lord Byron
(1788–1824). http://www.wmf.org/project/newstead-abbey

The ties between poems and monuments are both ancient and contemporary, abstract and concrete.

As Myra Sklarew writes in her poem "Monuments": Each of us has monuments in the bone case of memory. Monuments secure a culture's present by honoring its past and ensuring its future. Poems about monuments fasten the cultural, socio-political, and aesthetic issues that monuments distill to the page.

At World Monuments Fund, we share these concerns in the conservation projects we undertake every day, some of which also directly support the conservation of poetry. At the Goethe Gallery in Weimar's Residenzschloss, we completed urgent conservation work on the stucco and painted surfaces of the walls and ceiling of the "Poet Rooms,” commissioned by Maria Pawlowna in 1834 to commemorate influential Weimar poets Goethe, Herder, Schiller, and Wieland. At Las Pozas, a Mexican surrealist landscape, WMF helped restore the Edward James Cabin, including the conservation of the poems he wrote on its walls. The Scottish capital's cemeteries, where many important poets are buried, was on the World Monuments Watch in 2010 and is the focus of a current conservation and stewardship project, while Newstead Abbey, the ancestral home of Lord Byron, is on the 2012 Watch.

Please join us this April in exploring the special relationship between monuments and poetry, highlighting the many poems that bear witness to the world's most treasured places: http://www.wmf.org/get-involved/national-poetry-month


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