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The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society will conduct the annual Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest 2006. Selected English language haiku will be judged by an eminent haiku expert in Japan. The haiku must be written in 17 syllables, in 5-7-5 pattern. Each haiku must use one kigo (season word) from the contest list. Haiku with more that one recognized kigo, or that do not use a listed kigo will be disqualified. The top three winning haiku will receive cash prizes. The in-hand deadline is May 31, 2006. Prizes are $100, $50, and $25.
2006 Contest Kigo List:
New Year: champagne corks, first calm
Spring:
bee,
artichoke
Summer: toad, mid-summer rain
Autumn: rattlesnake grass, Halloween
Winter: lamenting owl, winter camellia
Entry Fee: $7.00 per page of three haiku. No limit on entries. Entries
will not be returned.
Submit 4 copies of each page, with your name and address on only one
copy, printed on 8 1/2" X 11" paper.
Make checks or money orders payable to "Yuki Teikei Haiku Society".
Overseas entrants please use International Postal Money Order, in U.S. Currency only.
For results list, send an SASE marked "Contest Winners".
Entries must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. No previous winning haiku are eligible. The contest is open to anyone, except except for the President and the Contest Chairof the Society.
Final selection will be made by a distinguished haiku poet. The Society may print winning poems and commentary in its newsletter, annual anthology, and current brochures.
Send entries to:
"Tokutomi Contest"
Jean Hale, Secretary
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
5135 Cribari Place
San Jose, CA 95135
Any further questions, please contact Contest Coordinator, Alison Woolpert, at awool@cruzio.com or send her an SASE at 235 Sunset Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.