Haiku & Tanka Magazine Submission Guidelines
Dr. Randy Brooks
Millikin University
updated 2023-09-11
Please send updates and corrections as needed.
Dr. Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University where he teaches courses on haiku
and tanka. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku
magazine. His most recent books include Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka and The Art of Reading and
Writing Haiku: A Reader Response Approach.
Randy Brooks
6 Madera Court
Taylorville, IL 62568
North American haiku journals:
Acorn: A Journal of Contemporary Haiku
ed. Susan Antolin
http://acornhaiku.com/
submit: Jan-Feb & July-Aug • Acorn in subject line • 5-15
Akitsu Quarterly
http://www.wildgraces.com/Akitsu-Quarterly.html
ed. Robin White (hosts Annual Gathering at Wild Graces)
submit: up to 8 – open until issues fill (Jan 1 for Spring / opens May 8 for Winter)
Autumn Moon
https://www.autumnmoonhaiku.com/
ed. Bruce Ross
tanchopress@gmail.com
submit: May 1 (for spring/summer) & Nov 1 (autumn/winter) • match season submitting to
• submit 2 haiku
Subject line: Autumn Moon Haiku Journal
Bottlerockets
https://www.bottlerocketspress.com/
ed. Stanford M. Forrester
submit: name & address top right corner every page • up to 10 (5 per page)
snail mail only (#10 envelope & SASE)
April 1 – May 15 & Oct 1 – Dec 1
Stanford M. Forrester, Editor
bottle rockets press
PO Box 189
Windsor, CT 06095
Cattails
http://www.cattailsjournal.com/
Tanka Editor: Jenny Fraser, New Zealand
submittocattails+[email protected] with the subject heading: TANKA
Haiku Editor: Geethanjali Rajan, India
submittocattails+[email protected] with the subject heading: HAIKU
Senryu Editor: David J Kelly, Ireland
submittocattails+[email protected] with the subject heading: SENRYU
submit: Feb 1-28 & July 1-31 • up to 12 haiku, 12 senryu, 10 tanka
Cold Moon
https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/
Editor Roberta Beach Jacobson
submit: rolling submission, 1 or 2 (haiku, senryu, tanka) per month
Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu
https://failedhaiku.com/
Editor Bryan Rickert
submit: 10th-25th of the month – up to 8 senryu/kyoka per month (2 can be haiga, haibun or linked)
include your name in the email (NO ATTACHMENTS – except haiga graphics)
FemkuMag #FemKuMag
https://femkumag.wixsite.com/home
Editor Rowan Beckett (they/them)
femkumag@gmail.com
submit: womxn, transgender, and non-binary folx • your name & 50 word bio • up to 7
on hiatus until 2024
Fireflies Light
https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/fireflies-light/
editor John Han
john.han@mobap.edu
submit: March & September • subject line = FL – your name • 100 word bio • up to 10
First Frost
https://www.firstfrostpoetry.com/
Editors Dale Wisely, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, Eric Burke, and Michael Dylan Welch
haiku or senryu
submit: January for Spring issues • July for the Fall issue • only 3 per submission
submit with Google Forms at: https://www.firstfrostpoetry.com/submit
Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry)
https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/
Editor: Roberta Beach Jacobson
fivefleasitchypoetry@gmail.com
submit: 1-10 poems (haiku, senryu, tanka, micro-poems – 5 lines or less)
Frameless Sky
http://framelesssky.weebly.com/
editor Christine L. Villa
framelesssky@gmail.com
submit: Sept 15 – Oct 31 & March 15 – April 30 • subject line = “haiga” • 5-10 haiku or tanka
Frogpond (Haiku Society of America)
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/index.html
ed. Jacob Salzer
email: frogpondeditor@gmail.com
submit: March, July, November (during those months only) • up to 8 haiku or 3 sequences
use the goggle docs form link from the HSA web site
GEPPO Haiku Journal – Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
ed. Johnnie Johnson Hafernick
email: [email protected]
vote: up to 10 favorite haiku (not your own)
submit: members only • subject = Geppo submission: your name • up to 4 in upcoming season
submit votes for favorite haiku from previous issue
Jan 15 - winter, Apr 15 - spring, July 15 - summer, Oct 15 - autumn
• submit 1 haiku for current issue Challenge Kigo
Haiku Canada Review
http://www.haikucanada.org/
editor: Mike Montreuil
email: [email protected]
submit: no specific guidelines
Haiku Canada Publications Editor
1409 Bortolotti Crescent
Ottawa, ON, K1B 5C1, Canada
Haiku Commentary
https://haikucommentary.wordpress.com/
editors Nicholas Klacsanzky & Hifsa Ashraf
submit: subject = Submission • full name & country • no erotic • up to 5 per month
Haiku in Action
https://www.nickvirgiliohaiku.org/haiku-in-action
Send us up to three haiku on the recently announced topic.
Send us your haiku/senryu poems taken from the news of the week and observations of life.
Whether snapshots from marches, quiet moments in quarantine or Zoom meeting frustrations, we
want all your short poems anchored in the NOW. The best will be showcased weekly here and on
all our social media platforms.
ALL ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT. Please submit a MAXIMUM of 3 haiku. Only one haiku per
poet will be accepted. Reading closes the Monday of each week, with a posting every Thursday.
Please refrain from racist, homophobic, sexist or other hate speech in submissions. The BEST of the
best will be compiled into an anthology of haiku published by Nick Virgilio Haiku Association's
imprint Upright Remington Press.
The Heron's Nest
http://www.theheronsnest.com/
managing Editor John Stevenson
ithacan@earthlink.net
submit: anytime • include city, state, country • not senryu • 5-15
Please send submissions to one of the five following associate editors:
Julie Schwerin
Fay Aoyagi
Tom Painting
tompainting51@gmail.com
Jeff Hoagland
jhoagland1313@gmail.com
Anne Burgevin
Kingfisher
https://kingfisherjournal.com/
editor: Tanya McDonald
submit: subject = Submission: your name, location • Feb 1-28, Aug 1-31 • 5-10
Leaf - Journal of THE DAILY HAIKU
editor: Ravi Kiran
submissions.leaf@gmail.com
submit: up to 5 haiku or senryu / up to 2 haiga or photo haiku; include name & country
deadline: April 1-30 for June issue, October 1-31 for December issue
Mariposa: Membership Journal of Haiku Poets of Northern California
editor David Grayson
mariposaeditor@gmail.com
submit: members only • before March 1, before Sept 1 • 10-15 haiku, senryu, tanka
membership is $25 per year
Mayfly
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/mayfly.html
editors Randy Brooks & Shirley Brooks
submit: before May 15, before Nov 15 • include name, location • up to 5 per issue
Modern Haiku
https://www.modernhaiku.org/index.html
editor Paul Miller
modernhaik[email protected]m
submit: subject = MH SUBMISSION • name & postal address •
before March 15, before July 15, and before November 15
Monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge
https://tricycle.org/haiku/
Clark Strand, Moderator
5-7-5, with season word (usually the haiku prompt)
Otoroshi
https://otoroshijournal.wixsite.com/home/guidelines
editors: Joshua Gage & Lithica Ann (they/them; deadname: Lori A Minor)
E-mail: OtoroshiJo[email protected]
submit: subject = Otoroshi Submission • name & location • Jan, Apr, July, Oct • 7 per issue
horror haiku or tanka
Plum Tree Tavern
https://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/p/guidelines.html
editor: Russel Streur
email: [email protected]
submit: up to 3 haiku, often special topics
Prune Juice, Journal of Senryu & Kyoka
http://prunejuice.wordpress.com/
editors: Aaron Barry, Antoinette Cheung, P. H. Fischer
email: [email protected]
submit: March 1-31, June 1-30, Oct. 1-30 • subject = Prune Juice Submission • name & country •
up to 5 senryu or kyoka & up to 3 linked forms or 3 haiga
Pulse
https://pulsevoices.org/
ed. Neal Whitman
submit: subscribers only • health care haiku • on hiatus until Fall 2023
Scifaikuest
https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest
editor Teri Santitoro
email: [email protected]
submit: sign name beneath each haiku/tanka • short bio • contact info • up to 10
CONTACT INFORMATION EXAMPLE:
Leonard Nimoy
6001 W. Centinela Avenue
Culver City, California, 90045
imnotspock@gmail.com
paypal (if any): muchloot@wallet.com
Stardust Haiku
http://stardusthaiku.blogspot.com/
editor: Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
submit: subject = “submission – Stardust – month” • name & country after haiku • 1 or 2 haiku
• on hiatus as of July 31, 2023 until further notice
Tinywords
https://tinywords.com/
editors Kathe Palka & Peter Newton
http://tinywords.com/
k-jpalka@comcast.net
submit: Feb & Aug • web form submission < https://tinywords.com/submit/ > • up to 5
Trash Panda
https://www.trashpandahaiku.org/
Editor Lisa Anne Johnson
email: trashpandahaiku@protonmail.com
submit: May 1-15, Oct 1-15 • name, city, state, country • up to 5
Trash Panda publishes the best of English language haiku/senryu and other short form poetry of 17
syllables or less that uniquely expresses the reality of life in the Anthropocene. Poems should
witness nature as it exists today.
tsuri-doro
https://tsuridoro.org/
Editor Tony Pupello
submit: 1-15
th
of month for issue in 2 months • issues Jan, March, May, July, Sept, Oct, Dec
• up to 5 haiku
subject line: name, submission date yyyy-mmdd
Under the Basho
http://www.underthebasho.com/
editor Don Baird
https://www.underthebasho.com/submissions.html
submit: Mar 1 – Nov 15 • include date, name, country • up to 10 haiku, 5 sequences
various editors for different types:
subject = “UtB Submission – haiku” • email to kala-ramesh-[email protected]
subject = “UtB Submission – tanlinked forms” • email to [email protected]
subject = “UtB Submission – postku” • email to [email protected]
Whiptail Haiku
https://www.whiptailjournal.com/
editor Robin Anna Smith
submit: Jan 1-14, May 1-10, July 1-10, Sept 1-10 • check for themes • via Google forms:
https://www.whiptailjournal.com/submissions.html
Please submit 4-5 one-line poems of any variety, including monostich haiku, senryu, one-line tanka,
poetic fragments, one-line micropoems, or lyrical lines.
no rejection notices – acceptances only. rejected work is “free to be submitted elsewhere if not
accepted by time of publication”
Zen Peacemakers Haiku Page
https://zenpeacemakers.org/haiku-page/
Editors: Sensei Bob Ertman, Lorraine Padden & Managing Editor, Clotilde Wright
submit: web page submission form
monthly theme: submit 3 haiku before 25
th
of each month
(only contact poets whose haiku will be showcased)
theme for June 2023 – summer
The Zen Space (blog)
https://thezenspace.wordpress.com/
Editor: Marie Marshall à looking for a new editor to continue The Zen Space (7-7-2023)
submit to: [email protected]
6 haiku •
International Journals (open to English haiku submissions)
Asahi Haikuist Network
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/special/haiku/
ed. David McMurray
mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp
submit: monthly prompt • June 2023 Basho’s haiku:
“hydrangea… in the season of unlined clothes light blue”
The next issues of the Asahi Haikuist Network appear Aug. 4 and 18. Readers are invited to
compose haiku about the appearance of El Nino--a climate pattern of warm Pacific Ocean surface
temperatures--for the first time in seven years. Mail your haiku on a postcard to David McMurray at
the International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, Japan, or by e-
mail to (mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp).
The Bamboo Hut
http://thebamboohut.weebly.com/
editor Steve Wilkinson
submit to: thebamboohu[email protected]
submit: up to 5 haiku – submissions reopen September 1
Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society)
http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/journal/
Iliyana Stoyanova, Editor
submit: Dec, March, June, Sept • BHS members only •
Iliyana Stoyanova, Editor
4 Vicarage Gardens
Leighton Buzzard LU7 2LL
United Kingdom
FINAL REMINDER - BHS MEMBERS' ANTHOLOGY 2023
The title for this year's Members’ anthology is “CHANGE” and haiku/tanka submitted should reflect
this theme. However, BHS members can interpret the theme as widely and/or as loosely as they like.
The word change should not appear in the submitted haiku. This year Diana Webb will edit the
anthology. For details of this anthology, please consult your copy of our newsletter, the 'brief'. The
deadline for your submission is 30 September 2023.
Chrysanthemum
http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/en/index.html
editor Beate Conrad
submit: Feb & Aug • up to 4 haiku, senryu or tanka
subject line: Autumn (or Spring) submission – your name
Echidna Tracks
https://echidnatracks.com/submissions/
submit work relevant to Australia – authentic experience of either living in or visiting Australia
Enchanted Garden
https://enchanted-garden-haiku.blogspot.com
Editor Steliana Cristina Voicu
email haikuenchanted@gmail.com
submit: one haiku • name and country after your haiku • subject line: submission Month
themes: July 1-15 Beyond • Sept 1-15 Sparkles • Nov 1-15 Secret Santa
Folk Ku
http://kingriverpress.com
editor: Jodie Hawthorne
submit: March 15 – April 15, Sept. 15 – Oct. 15 • 3-8 haiku or tanka
subject: folk ku submission • include name, city & country with haiku
Tasmania – in honor of Shiki’s haiku
In honor of the honesty and simplicity of Master Shiki’s work and legacy, we are NOT
specifically looking for clever or wow-factor verses; we are after special moments that you
wish to see published and even ones you feel may be overlooked by other journals.
Ginyu: International Haiku Magazine
editor Ban’ya Natsuishi
haikuNetra
https://haikunetra.blogspot.com/
editor Daipayan Nair
submit: up to 5 haiku or senryu • once every month
subject line: haikuNetra submission – Your Name
Hedgerow
https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/
ed. Caroline Skanne
submit: subject = SUBMISSION your name • rolling basis • about 10 • up to 3 sequences to Vines
Kokako
Editor Patricia Prime
email submissions to: [email protected]
submit: Nov 1 - Feb 1 for Spring • May 1 – July1 for Fall
submit up to 8 haiku or senryu
Mainichi Daily News
https://mainichi.jp/english/haiku/
Dhugal Lindsay, selector
https://mainichi.jp/english/contact/haiku/
submit: use submit form above • name, city and country
NOON: journal of the short poem
http://noonpoetry.com/
editor Philip Rowland
submit: in email & PDF (for exact layout) • 5-15 poems
deadlines: Jan-Feb for Spring • July-Aug for Autumn
Poetry Pea
https://poetrypea.com/
editor Patricia
submit: subject: submissions • up to 10 • (check for special themes or prompts)
Presence
https://haikupresence.org/
Edtior Ian Storr
haiku to: [email protected]
tanka to: [email protected]
submit: Dec 15 – Jan 31, April 15 – May 31, Aug 15 – Sept 30 • up to 10
subject line: Presence submission
Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/
editor: Kathleen Trocmet
submit using the submission form:
https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/submissions/
every other month? Sept, Nov 1-25
th
• 3 haiku, tanka, senryu
Seashores
https://haikuspirit.org/seashores.html
Editor Paul Chambers (and Gilles Fabre & David Burleigh)
submit: seashoreshaiku@gmail.com
subject: “submissions for Seashores” • up to 8 haiku/senryu • include name, country
deadlines: Jan 31 for April issue, July 31 for November issue
Shadow Pond Journal
https://shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/
Editor: Katherine E Winnick
submit: 3 haiku or senryu & short bio • doesn’t send rejections, just selected acceptances
Shot Glass Journal
https://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/index.html
editor: Mary-Jane Grandinetti
submit: up to 5 short poems (16 lines or less) • use Submit Now button
Sonic Boom – submission line note: “Paper Lanterns” (haiku section of Sonic Boom)
http://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom
editors: Shloka Shankar, Robin Smith & Kat Lehmann
sonicboomjournal@gmail.com
submit: Oct 1-21 & Feb 1-21 • 50-word bio • up to 10 haiku, senryu or tanka
only notifies acceptances (no rejections sent)
The Sunflower Collective
http://sunflowercollective.blogspot.com/p/submit.html
Editor (group – admires the Beat poets)
submit: thesunflowercollectiveindia@gmail.com
subject: genre & first name (haiku – name)
deadlines: rolling submissions – haiku, tanka
5-8 poems (haiku, tanka) – FONT = Garamond 14 point
include short bio & address
Time Haiku
Editor Diana Webb
submit: [email protected]
submit: end of Oct for Feb issue & end of April for August issue • haiku, senryu, tanka
Triveni Haikai India
https://www.trivenihaikai.in/
Kala Ramesh
https://www.trivenihaikai.in/submission-calendar
HAIKUsutradhar: weekly prompts at https://www.trivenihaikai.in/haikusutradhar
Triya
https://www.thetriyamag.org/submissions
triyamag@gmail.com
no more than 10 in Hindi OR English Language Haiku
English poems will be translated into Hindi
published pieces should include first publication credits.
1st Oct - 15th Oct; 1st Jan - 15th Jan; 1st June - 15th June
Wales Haiku Journal
https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/
Editor Paul Chambers
waleshaikujournal@gmail.com
submit: March 1–31, June 1–30, Sept 1–31 • Dec 1–30 • haiku only • 5-10
World Haiku Review
https://worldhaikureview.wordpress.com/
Editors Susumi Takaguchi & Rohini Gupta
submit: subject = Submission – haiku – surname • up to 10
include full name, country
English tanka & kyoka ONLY journals:
The Art of Tanka (formerly Moonbathing)
Editor: Pamela A. Babusci
email: moongate4[email protected]m
xxxxxx for Spring/Summer theme or non-seasonal
09/01 – 11/01 for Fall/Winter theme or non-seasonal
submit: 5-10 tanka • no sequences • no attachments
12 point type & full name & state abbreviated beneath each tanka
Eucalypt
https://juliethorndyke.com/eucalypt-a-tanka-journal/
Editor: Julie Anne Thorndyke
email: [email protected]
subject line: "For consideration Eucalypt Issue [relevant number]" followed by your surname.
up to 6 tanka per issue
include your name, full postal address, including country, and the date of submission.
include “these poems are original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere”
Submissions for Eucalypt 34 will close on March 31, 2023
Submissions for Eucalypt 35 will close on September 30, 2023
Gusts – Tanka Canada
Editor: Kozue Uzawa
email: [email protected]
by February 15 for Spring/Summer, August 15 for Fall/Winter
up to 3 tanka
Red Lights
Editor: Marilyn Hazelton
email: marilynhazelton@rcn.com
up to 10 tanka (and/or 1 tanka sets of 5 stanzas
by April 15 for Fall issue, December 15 for Winter issue
Ribbons – Tanka Society of America
https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/ribbons
Editor: Susan Weaver, 127 N. Street, Allentown, PA 18102
email: [email protected]
subject: Ribbons Submissions
anytime up to April 30 for Summer, August 31 for Fall, December 31 for winter
up to 10 tanka OR 2 tanka sequences (not more than 6 tanka) OR 5 tanka & 1 sequence
Tanka Hangout
https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/ribbons/tanka-hangout-submission-guidelines
Editor: Ken Slaughter
email: tsahangout@outlook.com
subject: Tanka Hangout
anytime up to April 30 for Summer, August 31 for Fall, December 31 for winter
include name, city, state, country beneath the submitted tanka
PROMPTS: submit 1 tanka on the prompt
by August 31, 2023 – tribute tanka for Sandford Goldstein . . . and/or other seminal influencers
Take 5ive
https://take5ive.weebly.com/
Editor: Steve Wilkinson
email: [email protected]
up to 5 tanka (no sequences). Stick to theme for each submission period.
July 10th - 14th The plight of refugees
August 14
th
-18
th
Neurodiversity
NO LONGER ACTIVE:
(let me know if these become active again)
Grievous Angel: It's Scifaiku Time Again!
https://www.urbanfantasist.com/scifi-poetry-and-flash-fiction/its-scifaiku-time-again
closed
Haibun Today
http://www.haibuntoday.com/
Editor Ray Rasmussen
closed December 2019
Halibut
https://halibuthaiku.blogspot.com
ed Mary di Michele and Susan Gillis,
closed December 2020
incense dreams
http://chanokeburi.it/
Editor Lucia Fontana
closed July 2020
is/let
http://isletpoetry.wordpress.com
Editor Scott Metz
closed January 2022
KYSO Flash
www.kysoflash.com/
Editor Clare MacQueen
closed November 2019
Lilliput Review
https://sites.google.com/site/lilliputreview/home
http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/ - last date August 16, 2016
Editor Don Wentworth
Lilliiput Review
Don Wentworth, Editor
282 Main Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
The Mamba
https://africahaikunetwork.wordpress.com/
Editors Adjel Agyel-Baah and Emmanuel J. Kalusian
on hiatus as of June 18, 2022
moongarlic E- Zine
http://www.moongarlic.org/
Editors Sheila Windsor & Brendan Slater
closed 2017
otata (not currently active)
https://otatablog.wordpress.com/
Editor John Martone
closed December 2019
Shamrock
https://shamrockhaiku.com/
Editor Anatoly Kudryavitsky
closed September 2022
