COMMITTEE
Lynette Arden: Founder and Managing Editor
Lynette Arden has written haiku since completing a World Haiku Club online course in 2003. She is Web Manager of The Australian Haiku Society and a past Vice President. Her latest book of poetry, Wild Seed can be previewed here and is available through the publisher and online bookstores. Lynette’s website. Her first book of poetry was A Pause in the Conversation in Friendly St New Poets 15.
Simon Hanson
Simon Hanson is the author of three collections of poetry; Glowing in the Dark, a collection of free form poems published with Adelaide’s Friendly Street Poets in New Poets 16, an eBook of collaborative rengay with Ron C. Moss titled Ancient Bloodlines and a forthcoming eChapbook of haiku, Desert Stones to be published by Snapshot Press. He has served as Secretary to the Australian Haiku Society and writes regular commentaries for the Featured Haiku post on the AHS website.
Gavin Austin
Gavin Austin lives in Sydney, and writes short fiction, free verse poetry, and Japanese-form poetry. In 2016, Gavin was awarded a Writing Fellow of the FAW NSW Inc., and was the Featured Poet in the January 2016 issue of cattails. The Drifting Sands Special Feature, Girt by Sea was Gavin’s undertaking; the partnership of his photography and poetry from Australian writers. He currently has two published poetry collections: Shadow Play, Dragonwick, Aus., and changing light, Alba Publishing, UK. You can find Gavin in The Poet’s Hub Gavin Austin – Drifting Sands Haibun – Poet’s Hub (drifting-sands-haibun.org)
Marilyn Humbert
Marilyn Humbert lives in Sydney, surrounded by bush. Her haiku, tanka and free verse poems have been published in International and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her love of travel in the outback is often reflected in her writing.
Julia Wakefield
Julia Wakefield has worked as a freelance illustrator, educational writer, and designer for UK, US, and Australian publishers for over 40 years. She has won awards for her artwork and has widely exhibited her prints and watercolours in Australia and the UK. For the past ten years, she has taught workshops on writing haiku and the art of creating haiga.
Julia has won several awards for her poetry, including haiku. Her poetry collection Shifting Viewpoints was published in New Poets 20 by Friendly Street Poets (2019). Julia’s haiga out without my phone received an honourable mention in the 2023 Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga competition. Her haiku a cloudless day won the 2021 European kukai, and one of her tanka was included in the 2021 Tanka Society of America’s Pandemic Special video.
Julia convenes the Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group.
Jennifer Sutherland: Guest Editor
Jennifer Sutherland of Victoria, Australia has been writing haiku since 2010. She has had her work appears in haiku anthologies published by Modern Haiku, Red Moon Press, Haiku Society of America, and Australia Haiku Society and in a variety of journals including Modern Haiku, Presence and The Herons Nest. Her haiku was shortlisted for a Touchstone award in 2023.
Haiga Editors
Marietta McGregor
Marietta McGregor studied botany and obtained postgraduate qualifications in writing and journalism, becoming a science communicator for universities and the CSIRO. A keen photographer, she enjoys capturing impressions of cities, coasts, and countryside and sharing their spirit in haiga. Her photo haiga have featured in NHK Haiku Masters on Japanese TV and are published in online journals.
Marietta’s awards for haiga include first place in the 5th Setouchi-Matsuyama Photo Haiku Contest (2015), an honourable mention in the 5th Jane Reichhold Memorial Contest (2021) and placings in haiga contests and kukai conducted by the Australian Haiku Society. Her haiku and haibun have won international awards, have been translated into eight languages, and have appeared widely in anthologies.
Julia Wakefield
Julia Wakefield will co-edit our haiga selections. See Julia’s details in Committee.
Past Committee Members
Lyn Reeves
Lyn Reeves was one of the founding three Administrators of Echidna Tracks. She has now retired. We thank her for her continual inspiration and contribution. Lyn Reeves is a past Vice President of The Australian Haiku Society. Lyn was involved in the beginnings of HaikuOz and has served as Secretary, Vice-President and committee member. She was haiku editor for Famous Reporter (1994- 2012), occasional editor for paper wasp, and is founder and convener of Watersmeet haiku group. Her first haiku collection, Walking the Tideline, appeared in 2001. A recent haiku collection Small Worlds is a limited edition hard copy art book/exhibition catalogue in collaboration with Hobart artist, Luke Wagner.
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