Submissions

Haiga Submissions

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Haiku Submissions

The submission guidelines for Echidna Tracks have now changed. For Issues 1 to 16, we concentrated on Australian authors and material relevant to Australia.

Starting with Issue 17, Echidna Tracks will now become an international publication, and we welcome previously unpublished haiku/senryu submissions from haiku poets worldwide. We hope to publish a diversity of haiku and senryu.

Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert will be the haiku editors for Issue 17.

Echidna Tracks nominates haiku for the Touchstone Awards and the annual Red Moon Press anthology, so be sure to send us your best work.

Submissions for Issue 17 will be open during April 2026. 

Submissions will be accepted only through the submission form, which will be available when the link on this page opens in April and October.

We plan to publish Issue 17 on 6 July 2026.

Guidelines

You are invited to submit up to five (5) haiku in one submission. Haiku must be your original work, unpublished (in print or online, in forums or blogs, Facebook pages and groups, etc.), and not under consideration elsewhere.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.

Make only one submission containing all the haiku you are submitting.

Please include your name and country of residence.

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 for submission elsewhere.