1st annual Under the Basho International Haiku Contest

1st Place - $500 (USA$); 2nd Place - $150 (USA$); 3rd Place - $50 (USA$).

Five Honorable Mentions

Submission Dates:  Open October 21st  to  February 15th.    CLOSED and in JUDGING STAGE!

Email Submissions to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.    Attention:  Maureen     Subject:  Contest

Rules:  Submit 2 haiku only.  No additional haiku will be accepted or judged. There is no fee to enter.  Results will be announced by March 31st.  Awards will be delivered by April 25th which include: Cash; Certificates for 1st, 2nd, 3rd; Honorable Mention Certificates.  Send only new, unpublished haiku.  Facebook, forums, journals, magazines and any other form of publication disqualifies the haiku.  Entries cannot have been workshopped or otherwise seen, viewed, or read.  New writes only.  

Contest Coordinator:  Maureen Salman (the coordinator for HNA Haiku Contest - nearly 1500 haiku)

Judging:  The contest coordinator, Maureen Salman, will receive the haiku entries and assign numbers to them - removing all names.  She will then, at closing date, forward to the poems (without names) to Alan Summers and Don Baird.  Alan will pre-screen entries and select 25 haiku from the group.  He will then notify Don of the 25 numbers.  At this point, Don will select winners and honorable mentions from Alan's preliminary selection.  Hansha, webmaster, will post names of winners and honorable mentions on the Under the Basho website for contest year, 2014.

Who Cannot Enter:  Anyone affiliated with Under the Basho as owners and/or volunteers cannot enter the contest. Current haiku students of Don Baird, Alan Summers, and Hansha Teki cannot enter the contest.  

Preliminary Judge:  Alan Summers - About Alan

Finals Judge:  Don Baird - Contest Director and Sponsor

Thank you!

Under the Basho