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Continue reading “Authors Echidna Tracks Issue 14”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 We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.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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Continue reading “Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 15 Winter/Spring 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.
Continue reading “Haiga selected for the Echidna Tracks Haiga Collection”first frost
the oval
diamond white
Owen Bullock
alpine grassland
sharing a shiver
with a karst pool
Nathan Sidney
mountain tops
skipping like skipping
stones skipping
Nathan Sidney
glints of silver
over the blue swell
surfers and seagulls
Simon Hanson
best friends jump together Torquay jetty
Susan Austin
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