Submissions
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SUBMISSIONS TO “HAIKU NEWS”
Haiku News is always looking for haiku poems written about current events and news stories. We take submissions on any topics, as long as you also send us a link to the news article your poem references. We do not publish all poems received and will only publish those that are good haiku, regardless of whether they are traditionally considered news worthy (we accept poems on all news – from the intimate to the intimidating).
For those of you who are new to haiku it is worth mentioning that we do not consider 5-7-5 to be essential to a haiku poem. For a very brief outline of the kind of haiku we are interested in see here. If your poem is accepted you will be notified by email within a few weeks of receipt and the poem will be published at the discretion of the editors (usually within a month of acceptance). Although we are called “Haiku News” we also accept senryu, tanka and kyoka.
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SUBMISSION PROCESS
What to include: the poems, your full name, your email address, links to on-line coverage of the news item, with subject heading: Haiku News Submission.
Where to send it: dickwhyte [at] gmail [dot] com.
Please Note: Put the poem (or poems) in the body of the email as we do not open attachments.
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PAYMENT AND RIGHTS
At this point we cannot offer any payment for your haiku news articles. We do not mind if the poems have been published elsewhere, but please let us know where they were published so we can credit the original publisher. If this is the first place they are published, Haiku News receives first serial rights to the poem. Reprint rights revert to author 30 days after first publication in Haiku News, so long as subsequent publishers credit Haiku News with first publication.
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