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The Washington Poets Association has occasionally sponsored haiku contests since the organization began in 1971, even publishing a book of haiku from one of its contests in the late 1970s. In 2004, at the urging of Michael Dylan Welch, the WPA started running a haiku contest annually, which Michael suggested naming after Francine Porad, the doyenne of haiku poetry in the Pacific Northwest, editor of Brussels Sprout haiku magazine, past president of the Haiku Society of America, and founder, in 1988, of Haiku Northwest. In 2008, Haiku Northwest cosponsored this contest, and has continued as cosponsor ever since. The following are links to all the contest winners and judges’ comments since the Porad Award for haiku began in 2004.
Submission guidelines for the 2012 contest (Deadline: August 31, 2012)
2004 Michael Dylan Welch, judge 2005 Christopher Herold, judge 2006 Ruth Yarrow, judge
2007 William J. Higginson, judge
2008 Margaret Chula, judge 2009 Michael Dylan Welch, judge 2010 Penny Harter, judge
2011 Susan Constable, judge
2012 Deborah P Kolodji, judge (winners announced in October 2012)
(Please note that the above links for contest results are not working correctly, due to changes on the WPA website, but will be fixed as soon as possible.)
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