Simon Hanson and Marilyn Humbert will be the haiku editors for this issue. We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Summer/Autumn time frame.
Please submit your haiku/senryu on the form available on the submissions page throughout September 2024. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form. Submissions have now closed for Echidna Tracks: Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025.
Echidna Tracks: Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025 will be published on 6 January 2025.
Anyone can submit work, but as this is a website for the collection of Australian haiku, the work we are looking for will come from an authentic experience of living in or visiting Australia. Unfortunately, we cannot consider your submission if we cannot verify an Australian connection. See About Echidna Tracks
Guidelines
Please submit up to five (5) haiku in one submission on the topic advertised. Haiku must be your original work, unpublished (in print or online, in forums or blogs, Facebook pages and groups, etc) and not under consideration elsewhere. Please do not submit close versions of work previously published or accepted for publication.
Please include your name and country of residence. If you do not live in Australia, please let us know how you are connected. Unfortunately, we cannot consider your submission if we cannot verify an Australian connection.
Poets will be notified of acceptances (only) within three weeks of the submission’s closing date. If you have not heard from us by then, you may consider your work available to send elsewhere.
Haiku format: If your haiku contains italics or some unusual formatting, please provide that information in your submission. Haiku will be left aligned unless there is a good reason for other formatting.