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WORLD HAIKU CLUB POEMS COMPETITION

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How to enter the World Haiku Poems Competition:
 
Please read the instructions (below) very carefully. From the administrative point of view of handling the incoming haiku poems, submissions which follow the instructions well will be given priorities and those which don't may not even be considered.
Instructions:
 
 
  • Dedline: Postmarked Saturday 13 May 2000. Please do not wait for deadline to arrive. Works will be processed as they come in.
  • Your haiku poems must be in English which is the official language of World Haiku Festival 2000. Whether they are translation from your mother tongue or original, selection will be done in the English version.
  • Please send your works on e-mail and not in the attached files.
  • When you have visited this website you have been given a unique "visitor number". That will be your reference number in connection with this World Haiku Poems Competition. Please keep a record of it because you will need it in the future. 

    • This is your visitor No. visitor No. . 
    (If your visitor No. does not appear, try again by clicking RELOAD button.) 
  • You should write 3 separate sets of  e-mails as shown in the following examples.
 
Please enter in the first e-mail the following items in the order shown. 
You should write your visitor number and the keyword GOLD as Subject in your mail first. 
  • Surname, First names
  • your e-mail address
  • Address, and country
  • Tel, Fax 
  • age, male or female
<First e-mail : your name etc.>(Example)
Mail to aminet@netpro.ne.jp
Subject ; (Write your visitor No.first)    GOLD
Smith , John W. 
[email protected] 
39 Oxford St. Oxford, UK 
(Tel.)01865 000 000  (Fax) 01865 000 001 
29 years of age, Male 
 
Then, write the second set of  e-mails, entering one haiku poem per e-mail.  Please write your visitor number and the key word RED as Subject. 

 You can submit up to 3 unpublished haiku poems plus up to 3 published   haiku poems (please specify which publication they appeared and when etc.).  
Published works can include those which have won prizes (please specify).
<Second sets of e-mails: your haiku>
Mail to aminet@netpro.ne.jp
Subject ; (Write your visitor No. first)      RED
Year's end,  
all corners of this  
floating world, swept 
 
( * One poem per e-mail *)
 
Lastly, write the third e-mail writing your visitor number and the keyword GREEN as subject. Please write a brief account of yourself: your interest in haiku and Japan, personal background etc., which will be used in the event of your works winning our prizes and/or selected for the commemorative anthology.  

So, if for example you are sending 4 haiku poems, write all e-mails (6 in all) first, and then send them together to
<Third sets of e-mails: about yourself>
Mail to aminet@netpro.ne.jp
Subject ; (Write your visitor No. first)    GREEN
 
  

( A brief account of yourself )
 
 
E-mail submission is the preferred method. However, those who are unable to do that can send their typed works by post, using the above instructions as a guideline. Please do not use fax for this purpose. Illegible submissions will not be accepted.By submitting your works, you are accepting any copyright issues. If you have any special arrangements with the publishers, please sort them out first before submitting your works.

TIME FOR PEACE HAIKU COMPETITION

Under our good causes program, there is a separate category which is organised in collaboration with TIME FOR PEACE-a Global Interactive Arts Project which is based in Bath, England. The seven themes which have been selected under this category reflect the philosophy and essence of TIME FOR PEACE. These are:

  Silence
  Stillness
  Space
  Nature
  Love
  Peace
  Compassion

Conditions and particulars of the TIME FOR PEACE HAIKU COMPETITION will be announced in due course. Meanwhile perhaps you would like to look at their website http://www.timeforpeace.org .

The TIME FOR PEACE HAIKU COMPETITION is particularly timely as the year 2000 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year for the Culture of Peace. This initiative of UNESCO, adopted by the UN General Assembly will be followed by the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non Violence for The Children of the World from 2001-2010. THE TIME FOR PEACE HAIKU COMPETITION aims to popularize haiku and can be seen as a part of this global celebration adopted by the United Nations.
 

Rough guidelines for World Haiku Poems Competition:
The World Haiku Poems Competition, together with its cousin "The World Haiku Essays Competition", is a vital part of World Haiku Festival 2000 ("HAIKU2000").

Open to all the haiku-loving people in the world, experts and novices, the Competition will seek to invite entry of diverse haiku poems written in different cultures and languages, which some say are over seventy languages. However, the official language, as in the case of HAIKU2000 festival as a whole, is English. So, make sure that the English version of your original haiku is of the highest standard!

You can enter not only your new works but also, unusually, the ones which have already been published elsewhere and/or have won a prize. We are not biased in favour of any fashions of today. Therefore you are encouraged to submit some of your works even if they are 10, 20 or 30 years old, so long as you are confident as to their excellence. No category restrictions are imposed. You are free to choose classical style, avant- garde, free verse etc.

There are, however, the adults' category and the children's category.

The idea is to gather as many haiku as possible, which are likely to represent a wide-range of cultural, linguistic and other background and from which contemporary world haiku of the highest quality and merit may be selected. It is hoped that the selected works reflect the top world haiku written during the last thirty years or so. However, this will depend on the quality of submitted works.

Prizes will be given to top poems, and together with these the works which satisfy high standard and purposes of HAIKU2000 will be considered for inclusion in the commemorative anthology.

Those who are submitting haiku to this Competition are also recommended to consider taking part in the World Haiku Essays Competition as well (see the page " World Haiku Essay Competition").

 
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