• The Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition 2006
• The Haiku Calendar Competition 2007

The Snapshot Press
Haiku Collection
Competition
2006

• 1st Prize
• Highly Commended
• Commended
• Entries
• 2007 Competition

1st Prize

Roberta Beary
The Unworn Necklace

Roberta Beary receives the first prize of £200/US $300.

The Unworn Necklace will be published in August 2007.

The collection can be pre-ordered online or by mail order.

third blizzard—
the untuned piano's
middle C

                   from here
                   to there
                   mother's silence

the sound of the name
i used to have
soft falling snow

                   first date—
                   the little pile
                   of anchovies

snowed in
the dog clicks
from room to room

                    all day long
                    i feel its weight
                    the unworn necklace

Highly Commended

In alphabetical order:

Marjorie Buettner (USA)
Gary Hotham (Germany)
Christopher Patchel (USA)

Ernest J. Berry (New Zealand)
Nola Borrell (New Zealand)
Helen Buckingham (England)
Glenn G. Coats (USA)
Anne LB Davidson (USA)
Joshua Gage (USA)
Helga Härle(Sweden)
Allen McGill (Mexico)
Victor Ortiz (USA)
Rob Scott (Australia)
Mathew V. Spano (USA)

Entries

30 entries to the contest were received.

2007 Competition

The format of the contest will be revised before the next deadline, which is likely to be in late 2007/early 2008. Details will be available shortly.

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The Haiku Calendar
Competition
2007

• Winners
• Runners-Up
• Adjudicator's Report

• pdf version of results
• 2008 Calendar
• 2008 Competition

Winners

January
‘dawn at last’ — Peggy Willis Lyles (USA)

February
‘the way he leans’ — Ferris Gilli (USA)

March
‘almost spring’ — John Stevenson (USA)

April
‘spring sunshine’ — Phillip Murrell (England)

May
‘prairie morning’ — Billie Wilson (USA)

June
‘first fireflies’ — Chad Lee Robinson (USA)

July
‘katydid chorus’ — Christopher Patchel (USA)

August
‘a butterfly’ — Carolyn Hall (USA)

September
‘autumn chill’ — Carolyne Rohrig (USA)

October
‘street by street’ — Marianna Monaco (USA)

November
‘All Souls’’ — Helen Buckingham (England)

December
‘winter dusk’ — Carole MacRury (USA)

Each of these haiku features prominently in The Haiku Calendar 2008.
The Prize Money of £360/US $600 is divided equally between the 12 Winners.

Note to authors: Please use the following acknowledgements when publishing these haiku in collections.
Award Credit: Winner, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2007.
Publication Credit: The Haiku Calendar 2008 (Snapshot Press, 2007).

Runners-Up

Susan Antolin (USA)
‘still composing’

Francine Banwarth (USA)
‘slow bend in the river’
‘spring dawn’
‘starry night’

Jack Barry (USA)
‘cold rain’
‘dark early’
‘reaching deeper’

Marjorie Buettner (USA)
‘dark of the moon’

Owen Bullock (New Zealand)
‘blowing’

Ellen Compton (USA)
‘season of lights’

Norman Darlington (Ireland)
‘Saint Brigid’s Day’

Cherie Hunter Day (USA)
‘New Year’s Day’

Jasminka Nadaskic Diordievic (Serbia)
‘noon stillness’

Katherine Gallagher (England)
‘cherry tree’’

Garry Gay (USA)
‘dandelion wind’’

Ferris Gilli (USA)
‘he is the first’

Andrea Grillo (USA)
‘morning dew’
‘winter stars’

Carolyn Hall (USA)
‘circle of lamplight’
‘night descending’

Penny Harter (USA)
‘a spiral of gnats’

John Kinory (England)
‘distant clouds’

Peggy Willis Lyles (USA)
‘in spite of everything’
‘long afternoon’

Carole MacRury (USA)
‘late summer’

Scott Mason (USA)
‘late December evening’

Marianna Monaco (USA)
‘doctor’s waiting room’

Roland Packer (Canada)
‘budding warmth’

Tom Painting (USA)
‘the stray key’

Christopher Patchel (USA)
‘catching a maple leaf’
‘in like a lion’

Matthew Paul (England)
‘larch leaves’
‘oystercatchers’

Vanessa Proctor (Australia)
‘starless night’
‘toddler clothes’

Lynne Rees (England)
‘market stall’

Ronald Rubin (England)
‘summer heat’

Fred Schofield (England)
‘autumn twilight’
‘hanging from a branch’

Malcolm Williams (England)
‘dawn frost’

All runners-up are published in The Haiku Calendar 2008.

Note to authors: Please use the following acknowledgements when publishing these haiku in collections.
Award Credit: Runner-up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2007.
Publication Credit: The Haiku Calendar 2008 (Snapshot Press, 2007).

Adjudicator's Report

Many thanks to everyone who entered this 9th annual contest, and to those who helped to publicize what is an internationally established annual haiku ‘event’.

This year 745 entries were received from 190 entrants residing in 18 countries across 4 continents:
USA (87 entrants), England (55), Canada (13), Australia (8), New Zealand (7), Ireland (3), Scotland (3), Wales (3), Japan (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Israel (1), N. Ireland (1), Philippines (1), and Serbia (1).

As ever, in the initial stage of adjudication each poem entered faced one simple criterion – its quality as a haiku. The shortlisted haiku were then judged according to their originality and relevance to their assigned months, particularly with regards to seasonal references.

With 52 haiku by 35 authors, the resulting 2008 calendar continues a rich tradition exploring and celebrating the continuing relevance of seasonal references in English-language haiku.

Many thanks again to all entrants for making both this contest and the calendar a worthwhile, and ongoing, experience. I would like to congratulate all the winning poets, and hope that their haiku will be widely appreciated throughout the coming year.

John Barlow