We thought news of the Haiku North America Conference for 2025 would be of interest to our subscribers and our poets. Editor Jennifer Sutherland has recently returned from the 2025 conference and has sent us this report to include. Thank you, Jennifer Sutherland, for the report, and Michael Dylan Welch and Jennifer Sutherland for the photos.
Continue reading “Haiku North America Conference – San Francisco – 2025”Haiga selected for the Echidna Tracks Haiga Collection
Congratulations to everyone who submitted haiga for the Echidna Tracks collection. We were encouraged by the number of submissions ‒ 43 in all, from 26 entrants. There were a few collaborations, but most of the haiga were from a single artist. The most popular form was the shahai, or a haiku embedded in a photo. There were also a number of skilled traditional entries, using either hand drawn or digitally drawn images. We have picked the best entries from each of these three categories, plus one highly commended shahai.
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