rim edge
a foot poised
on clouds
Marilyn Humbert
solo ginko my pockets full of wild berries
Padmasiri Jayathilaka
the ridge road
every scent of forest
brings me home
Gavin Austin
Reminder that Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 17 Close at the End of April 2026
Echidna Tracks will now become an international publication, and we welcome 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 this issue.
We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic.
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. Please carefully read the guidelines on the Submissions page, as these have changed. Submissions will be received only via the submissions form.
We plan to commence publication of Issue 17 on 6 July 2026.
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Ningaloo beach
the Loggerhead turtle
swishing sand
Lorraine Haig
a woman waits
for the sun to cool . . .
Oodnadatta dusk
Gregory Piko
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moonlit night
the curlew
breaks curfew
Gregory Piko
the sun fluttering
last feathers of light
yellow thornbills
Mira Walker
Continue readingCall for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 17 Winter/Spring 2026
Echidna Tracks will now become an international publication, and we welcome 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 this issue.
We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic.
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. Please carefully read the guidelines on the Submissions page, as these have changed. Submissions will be received only via the submissions form.
We plan to commence publication of Issue 17 on 6 July 2026.
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