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

Five Honorable Mentions

Submission Dates: Open October 21st to February 15th.

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

Subject Line of email to read: Contest

Rules: Submit 2 haiku only.

Send only new, unpublished haiku.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.

FREE: There is no fee to enter.

Results will be announced by March 1st.

Awards will be delivered by March 25th which include:

Cash; Certificates for 1st, 2nd, 3rd; Honorable Mention Certificates.

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.

Preliminary Judge: Alan Summers

Finals Judge: Don Baird - Contest Director and Sponsor

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.


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