ENTRY DETAILS THAT WE’D LIKE for haiku only entries

  

a swirl of clouds and red kite©Alan Summers

  
ENTRY DETAILS THAT WE’D LIKE if you are sending haiku only entries:

Remember that we accept both previously published haiku as well as unpublished haiku.

Previously published haiku can be from any year.  We are keen to allow both new and older published haiku an opportunity to do well in the competition, as well as appear in the book which will be part of the Summer season project.

We also accept more than one submission of entries through the  duration of the competition. As you find your more recent haiku published in magazines, or placed in competitions, you can make an extra submission to the competition.

No attachments please, just haiku (and any notes) in the main body of your email to: summer@withwords.org.uk

Along with your haiku entry please include in your email:

1. Your Name
2. Your place of residence: village or town or city plus county/region/state/Country.
3. Publication credits of haiku if previously published.
4. If your haiku is unpublished, just state 'unpublished'.
5. Finally don't forget to email: summer@withwords.org.uk
6. And put "Summer Haiku" in the subject line

• To know more about Alan as competition judge please scroll further down.

Please also note that we are also very interested to read your Summer anecdotes, memories, and observations as part of the competition. 

Twelve selected extracts will each win a small prize. 

They should be included in the same email as your haiku entries. (see weblink: Writer's Notes http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/writers-notes.html)

If you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to ask Karen who will be happy to help. 

Email Karen:

karen@withwords.org.uk

   

Back to the main competition page: http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-with-words-summer-competition-2014_14.html

"Capturing the essence of Summer worldwide"

JUDGE: ALAN SUMMERS is a Japan Times award-winning writer as well as a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. He is Director/Lead Tutor of With Words, an international provider of literature, education and literacy projects, as well as With Words online workshops based around the Japanese genres.     
He is a founding editor for Bones Journal (contemporary haiku): www.bonesjournal.com/, and was Special Feature Editor, Haiku/Haibun, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts: http://lijla.weebly.com/about.html






  





Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac  www.amazon.com/Haiku-World-International-Poetry-Almanac/dp/4770020902

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years  http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Haiku-in-English/ 

The Disjunctive Dragonfly, a New Approach to English-Language Haiku  www.redmoonpress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=32&products_id=179

Haiku 2014, pub. Modern Haiku Press, 2014  www.modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku2014.html








http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Amazement-of-the-ordinary-life

Just released Thursday 7th August 2014:

 To Order Haiku 2014: www.modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku2014.html








The Red Moon Anthology series is a celebration of the best haiku and related work published in English around the world each calendar year. www.redmoonpress.com/catalog/?cPath=33&osCsid=c2d0596302db327fa74a30480811a48a

Back to the main competition page:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-with-words-summer-competition-2014_14.html

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Writer’s Notes for The With Words Summer Competition

Writer’s Notes:

FREE TO ENTER:

  

Each entrant to the competition may also submit personal notes on the theme of summer.  Twelve chosen extracts from writers’ notes will each receive a prize. 

We are very keen to publish individual author voices in The With Words Haiku Book of Summer, so please send us your notes, observations, thoughts and feelings, anecdotes, or explanations about your haiku, about Summer, or your nearest equivalent to Summer if you live in a country that has different seasons, either with your haiku submission, or separately at a later time.   

This part of the competition is FREE, and you could win a prize as well as be featured in the Summer books we are planning. 

These may include notes specific to the poems submitted, or about summer in general.  

PRIZE
We will select twelve extracts from writers’ notes for special mention and a prize.

For ideas about what to include in writer’s notes, please consider:

• Season: what season, or part of the season, festival, special day etc are you writing about … 
• Seasonal Location: immediate area of your poem[s] plus other geographical details
• Full Date (time am or pm, day, month, year) of observation 
• Comments: anecdotes; observations; notes; fieldnotes; asides; or an account of why you personally associate the topic of your haiku with summer.
• Nature notes including nicknames and common names of species; local, regional and national names for animal; bird; plant; flower; tree; insect and various natural or human made phenomena.
• Non-nature: name of festival; special days; birthdays; religious or spiritual observances etc…

You can either send your writer's notes in with your haiku entries:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-with-words-summer-competition-2014_14.html

Or send the haiku first, and then email: summer@withwords.org.uk

with a subject line of Summer Notes once you are ready.

"Capturing the essence of Summer worldwide"

You have until next year, February 15th 2015 to send in entries and writer's notes.

Weblink back to the main competition details:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-with-words-summer-competition-2014_14.html

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With Words Competition rules and legalities

rainbow cloud and red kite©Alan Summers

Competition rules and legalities

1. Haiku entries must be your own work in English and you must be the sole copyright owner of the work.

2.  Entry implies permission for With Words to non-exclusively publish the prize-winning poems, and extracts from Writers' notes, online and in other With Words publications.  

3. Previously unpublished haiku placed in the Commended or Highly Commended categories will not be published by With Words without the author's separate permission.  

4. We will not use your email address for any other purpose except correspondence relating to this competition, or pass it on to any third parties.

5.  The competition judge is With Words founder Alan Summers.  The judge's decisions are final.   
For details about the judge please click here, and scroll down: http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/entry-details-that-wed-like-for-haiku.html

6.  Alan Summers' current and former students may enter the competition.  The rigorousness of the judging process will ensure that their entries are neither at an advantage or disadvantage in this competition. 

7.  With Words will be producing two books of Summer writing.  Entries to this competition will automatically be considered for inclusion.

"Capturing the essence of Summer worldwide"

Back to the main competition page:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-with-words-summer-competition-2014_14.html

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Clouds and Rain: A couple of haiku by Alan Summers translated into German by VerSuch ... das projekt gendai haiku

image©VerSuch

VerSuch ... das projekt gendai haiku ist ein deutschsprachiges blog von dietmar tauchner und ralf bröker. das ziel: den stand und die entwicklung des modernen haiku in deutscher sprache zu zeigen.

fliehende Wolken

mein Zackenmann trägt

einen Albatross

Haiku by Alan Summers

trans. Ralf Bröker

Publication Credit: VerSuch ... das projekt gendai haiku 01.07.2014 Wartende wir 

starker Dauerregen mein Kompass dein geographischer Norden

One-line haiku by Alan Summers

trans. Ralf Bröker

Publications credits: Frogpond 36.1 • 2013; VerSuch ... das projekt gendai haiku (1^st July 2013)

Alan Summers leitet With Words (Mit Worten) und unterstützt Menschen, die sich für Haiku, Tanka und andere Lyrik interessieren. Er ist dabei, einen weiteren Teil des The Kigo Lab Project zu veröffentlichen: ein Experiment mit westlichen Jahreszeitenwörtern als vollwertige Kigo für ökologisch-kritisches Schreiben. Alan hat sowohl Freude an Haiku, die mancher als traditionell ansieht, als auch jenen, die aus dem Rahmen fallen.

Translator: Ralf Bröker

Auf broeker-online.de …

... geht es um Haiku, der kompaktesten Form von Lyrik. Das Haiku hat seinen Ursprung im alten Japan. Heute wollen Autoren weltweit kurz und knapp einen bemerkenswerten Moment vergegenwärtigen – und im Leser das entstehen lassen, was Worte nicht sagen. 

image©Alan Summers


With Words run both live and online 
courses:

With Words runs popular online courses in haiku, tanka, haibun, and other related poetry.

 

Please don't hesitate to contact Karen for further information: karen@withwords.org.uk

A selection of haiku poems by Alan Summers in American magazine Modern Haiku

                     An Independent Journal of Haiku and Haiku Studies

"you ain't serious about haiku if you don't subscribe to Modern Haiku"
—Small Press Review, December 2004

www.modernhaiku.org/subscriptions.html

One haiku just published this Summer in Modern Haiku, and a selection of others from last year, plus a couple of oldies or mor from the 1990s.

night of small colour
a part of the underworld
becomes one heron

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: Modern Haiku Vol. 45.2  Summer 2014

this small ache and all the rain too robinsong

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Modern Haiku vol. 44.1 winter/spring 2013

ants following invisible trials the children

Alan Summers

Publication Credits: Modern Haiku  issue 44:3 (2013)

mist and dark I hold onto Little Bear

Alan Summers

Publication Credits: Modern Haiku  issue 44:3 (2013)

woodfire

flickering in the silence

corralled horses

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Modern Haiku vol. xxvi  no. 3 (1995); Moonlighting  (Intimations Pamphlet Series British Haiku Society publication, 1996); sundog haiku journal: an australian year  (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998); California State Library - 1997; First Australian Haiku online Anthology (1999); First Australian Anthology (Paper Wasp 2000); haiku dreaming australia the best haiku & senryu relevant in and to Australia (2006); The Crow Walk haibun (HAIKU HIKE, World Walks, Crossover UK 'Renewability' project 2006)); Stepping Stones:  a way into haiku  (British Haiku Society 2007); Mann Library, Cornell University Daily Haiku (March 2013)

Far North Queensland

a dingo’s call picked up-

the moonless night 

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Modern Haiku (199-)

web link:

Far North Queensland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_North_Queensland




cool morning
birdsong
    light on a distant cloud

Alan Summers

Publications credits: 
Modern Haiku, (1999); Azami Haiku in English Commemorative Issue  (2000); Birmingham Words Magazine Issue 3 (Autumn 2004); Haiku Friends Vol. 3 ed. Masaharu Hirata (Japan 2009)

Modern Haiku Summer 2014 backcover.JPG

Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper) publication of forgotten rain haiku by Alan Summers

Image from Asahi Shimbun (Illustration by Mitsuaki Kojima)

Forgotten rain
the wedding ring left
in a doll’s house

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK (Japan 2014)

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Bath Fringe Festival 2014 "Writing Haiku" Workshop free mini-workshop run by Alan Summers and Karen Hoy of With Words

 
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Bath Fringe Festival Writing Haiku Workshop

  

Writing Haiku

a free mini-workshop within an art exhibition

with Alan Summers and Karen Hoy

Saturday June 7th, 11am-12pm

Free Event to the public

‘STILL POINTS: MOVING WORLD’ Exhibition

Stall St

City of Bath

Bath and North East Somerset BA1 1QG

 

Photograph of Karen and Alan at the Bath Japanese Festival by Dru Marland

 

Still Points : Moving World  A Performance Writing Exhibition  Fringe Arts Bath, Friday 23rd May to Sunday 8th June 2014

About the gallery:

http://stillpointsmovingworld.wordpress.com/about/

Events including the haiku mini-workshop:

http://stillpointsmovingworld.wordpress.com/about-events/

Writing Haiku
Saturday June 7th, 11am-12pm

A free event and open to everyone.

Haiku are very short poems – generally just three lines long – and are written in simple language, but can be powerfully evocative.

This event is a writing mini-workshop with Alan Summers, who will talk about the history and contemporary practice of combining haiku and art. The workshop includes time for you to write your own haiku inspired by the art work in the exhibition.

Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning and Pushcart Prize nominated poet, who has been studying and writing haiku for over twenty years, and has been published internationally and translated into more than a dozen languages. He loves to teach and run workshops, bringing people to the Asian writing forms, and through his organisation With Words (now Call of the Page) has students all over the English-speaking world.
 
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KAREN HOY

Karen has been published in a number of hai­ku-based publications, including anthologies The Humours of Haiku, edited by David Cobb (Iron Press); and as one of Wales’s haiku pioneers in Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales (Gomer Press) edited by Nigel Jen­kins, Ken Jones and Lynne Rees. She also appears in Mslexia; and Sixfold; My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications 2006); Highly Commended in the BBC Wildlife Magazine’s Nature Writer of the Year competition (2009); as well as Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts.

Karen is the Course Director for With Words (now Call of the Page), and a Teaching Artist for Rooster Moans:

www.poetrycoop.com/poetry-workshops/karen-hoy

www.poetrycoop.com/poetry-workshops/poem-portrait

If you are unable to attend, live elsewhere, or even in a different country, Call of the Page run regular online events:

Call of the Page runs popular online courses in haiku, tanka and other related poetry.

 

Please don't hesitate to contact Karen for further information: admin@callofthepage.org

Karen & Alan bios: https://www.callofthepage.org/about-1/

   

online courses:

https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/

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A selection of haiku, by Alan Summers, published by Asahi Shimbun, Japan, between 2010 and 2013

 

The Asahi Shimbun literally Morning Sun Newspaper, is one of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun.

Monet's Haystacks At Chailly 1865

Monet's Haystacks

a group of crows tug

at twilight

rook chatter
tracking each snowflake
to the end

first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA

Also published in Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/does-fish-god-know-haiku-collection-by.html









river festival  
just a birdsong afternoon  
and talk of hedgehogs

Fraser Island
the pre-sunset whine
of mosquitoes

Fraser Island: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Island

Upolu Cay
my own skeletons
unearthing

About Michaelmas and Upolu

www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/michaelmas-upolu-cays/about.html

green clouds
the scarecrow worries
a loose thread

Maple moon

Grandmother’s recipe

settles in the pan

This was also published by the Hailstone Haiku Group, Japan

Early morning rain

the sound between

the sound

Night clouds

a spider shows me

the harvest moon

Cloud kigo

a light rain patters across

your nightingale floors

"In search of the ultimate season word to associate with clouds, Alan Summers observes how “rain writes its own story across floorboards that sing like a bird. I like the idea of the cloud kigo. Readers will too. It is always my pleasure to work with you on haiku.”  David McMurray, Asahi Shimbun

David McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column since April 1995, first for the Asahi Evening News. He is also the editor of OUTREACH, a bi-monthly column featuring international teachers in The Language Teacher of the Japan Association for Language Teacher (JALT).

He is professor of intercultural studies at The International University of Kagoshima where he lectures on international haiku. At the Graduate School he supervises students who research haiku. He is a correspondent school teacher of Haiku in English for the Asahi Culture Center in Tokyo.

Call of the Page runs popular online courses in haiku, tanka and other related poetry.

Please don't hesitate to contact Karen for further information: 

admin@callofthepage.org

www.callofthepage.org

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How a Haiku by Alan Summers was published by the world's largest circulated newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun on my birthday

For a Western haiku poet to be published in a Japanese newspaper is one thing, but to be in Japan is another, and actually buying the newspaper from a Japanese vendor.

To top that off, the haiku was planned to be published on my birthday!

When I locate the newspaper again, I’ll photograph the issue.

an attic window sill

a wasp curls

into its own dust

Alan Summers

Published by Yomiuri Shimbun (for my birthday, September 16th 2002).

Its first publication was when it was accidently sent by a colleague to this wonderful Dutch publication: Woodpecker Special Issue, Extra Shuttle Issue ISSN 1384-6094 (1997) so I was delighted when it was republished five years later in Yomiuri Shimbun.

Also, during a haiku walk in London during 1997, Hoshino Tsunehiko, particularly picked this haiku out as a good example, and explained why in depth.  This was very important to me as I had only been studying and writing haiku since 1993.

HOSHINO Tsunehiko :

Born in Tokyo in 1935. Professor of English and English Literature at Waseda University, Director of the Association of Haiku Poets, General manager of the Museum of Haiku Literature, Vice-President of the Haiku International Association.

He has published three collections of haiku, Rendako, Bakushu and Kantan, as well as a collection of critiques, Haiku to 'haiku' no sekai (The World of Haiku and Non-Japanese Haiku), which received the award for critique from the Association of Haiku Poets in 2003.

Haiku to Haiku no Sekai [Tankobon Hardcover] published by Waseda Daigaku Shuppanbu (2002) ·  ISBN-10: 4657027190 / ISBN-13: 978-4657027191

Three years later the attic sill haiku was republished by Yomiuri Shimbun:

Yomiuri Shimbun Go-Shichi-Go On-Line feature Language Lab (2005)

As well as appearing in the world’s largest circulated newspaper, it was published in

the Haiku International 2000 Anthology, Japan ISBN 4-8161-0675-8 (2000).

The haiku went on to be anthologised several times, but nothing could top my haiku appearing in a Japanese newspaper while I was in Tokyo. 


Yomiuri Shimbun:
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The Yomiuri Shimbun is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is part of the Yomiuri Group, Japan's largest media conglomerate.

It is one of the five national newspapers in Japan; the other four are the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and the Sankei Shimbun.

Founded in 1874, the Yomiuri Shimbun is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world, having a combined morning and evening circulation of 14,323,781 through January 2002.

In 2010, the daily was the number one in the list of the world's biggest selling newspapers with a circulation of 10,021,000. As of mid-year 2011, it still had a combined morning-evening circulation of almost 13.5 million for its national edition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yomiuri_Shimbun

Newspaper with the largest circulation in the world: Yomiuri Shimbun, 14,323,781 copies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_records_of_Japan

Yomiuri Mainichi circulation figures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_world_by_circulation

Call of the Page runs regular and popular online courses in haiku, tanka and other related poetry:

www.callofthepage.org/learning/

Please don't hesitate to contact Karen for further information: admin@callofthepage.org

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Two of my haiku mentioned in the Best of Mainichi Shimbun (newspaper) haiku columns for 2013 by Isamu Hashimoto

Circulation and Distribution of the Mainichi Shimbun
http://macs.mainichi.co.jp/english/03.html

Mainichi Shimbun 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainichi_Shimbun  

Alan Summers, and Call of the Page, offer regular and popular online courses in haiku; tanka; and other related genres: www.callofthepage.org

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Karen at: admin@callofthepage.org

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