Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 16 have now closed.
Simon Hanson and Jennifer Sutherland 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We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.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, in the twenty-first century, is a vibrant multicultural society. We hope to celebrate, through the haiku/senryu collected on this website, the diversity of lifestyles, values, characters, customs, cultures, and historical experiences of the people inhabiting Australia, as well as the diversity of our landscapes, flora, and fauna. Please explore our categories for inspiration. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Summer or Autumn timeframe.
This is primarily a website for the collection of the best work of Australian haiku poets. We also accept haiku from those who have visited Australia and wish to share their experiences.
Please submit your haiku/senryu on the form available on the submissions page throughout October 2025. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form. Submissions for Issue 16 have now closed.
Echidna Tracks: Issue 16 Summer/Autumn 2026 will be published on 5 January 2026.
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 Haiku must be your original work, unpublished (in print or online, in forums or blogs, Facebook pages and groups, etc) and not under consideration elsewhere.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 reside in Australia, please describe your connection to Australia.
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.
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