A reminder that submissions will close at the end of April 2025 for Echidna Tracks 15

This is a reminder that submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 15 will close at the end of April. We are seeking modern and excellent haiku and senryu that explore all areas of living in contemporary Australia.  

Gavin Austin 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 We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. Australia is a society that comprises many environments, cultures, and lifestyles. We welcome diversity in submissions. Please explore our categories for inspiration. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Winter/Spring time frame.

Please submit your haiku/senryu on the form available on the submissions page throughout April 2025. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form. Submissions for Echidna Tracks 15 have now closed.

Echidna Tracks: Issue 15 Winter/Spring 2025 will be published on 7 July 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 Haiku must be your original work, unpublished (in print or online, in forums or blogs, Facebook pages and groups, etc) and not under consideration elsewhere.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.