In recent months, one of my haiku received an Honourable Mention in a Croatian haiku competition while another received an Honourable Mention in an Irish contest.

With a number of countries now running competitions for haiku written in English, I thought it might be helpful to provide links to various of these competition websites. Please see the list below.

My haiku from the 2021 Little Iris Haiku Contest (Croatia) was:

pastel sunrise
the soft cover
of this book

While my haiku from the 2021 Irish Haiku Society Competition was:

brewing tea
night and day
become one

The list below excludes haiku competitions from Japan, as I’ve provided links to several of these competitions in an earlier post. You can see my post on Japanese haiku competitions here.

The following list includes many of the more prominent English-language haiku competitions that are run from countries other than Japan. While the…