Welcome to Echidna Tracks Issue 16: Summer/Autumn 2026

A group of haiku will be posted each Monday morning from 5 January 2026 until Issue 16 is complete.

Haiku in Issue 16 were selected by Editors Simon Hanson and Jennifer Sutherland. Thank you to all those who contributed their haiku. The beautiful cover image was provided by Wanda Amos. We hope you enjoy the publication.

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/.

Echidna Tracks is also available in the National Library of Australia’s digital collection. 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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