Tag: Simon Hanson

Welcome to Echidna Tracks Issue 15: Winter/Spring 2025

A group of haiku will be posted each Monday morning from 7 July 2025 until Issue 15 is complete on 29 December 2025.

Haiku in Issue 15 were selected by Editors Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert. Thank you to all those who contributed their haiku. The beautiful cover image was provided by Simon Hanson. We hope you enjoy the publication.

Authors’ names are listed in the ‘tags’ in the website’s footer. Each author listing covers all their haiku published on Echidna Tracks.

Books of each Issue of Echidna Tracks are stored by the National Library of Australia and are available for free download under https://echidnatracks.com/books/

If you are interested in finding haiku on a particular subject please explore the ‘category’ or use the search facility.

Subscribers to the website (followers) will receive a notification when each weekly group of haiku is posted. Subscription is free. At the end of the online publication period the whole book will be published on the website https://echidnatracks.com/books/.

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Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 15 Winter/Spring 2025

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 We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. Australia is a society that comprises many environments, cultures, and lifestyles. We welcome diversity in submissions. Please explore our categories for inspiration. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Winter/Spring time frame.

Please submit your haiku/senryu on the form available on the submissions page throughout April 2025. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form.

Echidna Tracks: Issue 15 Winter/Spring 2025 will be published on 7 July 2025.

Anyone can submit work, but as this is a website for the collection of Australian haiku, the work we are looking for will come from an authentic experience of living in or visiting Australia. Unfortunately, we cannot consider your submission if we cannot verify an Australian connection. See About Echidna Tracks

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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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