2016 Porad Award
Haiku Northwest is pleased to announce the thirteenth annual Porad Haiku Award. The contest is named for Francine Porad, founder (in 1988) of Haiku Northwest, former president of the Haiku Society of America, and editor for eight years of Brussels Sprout, an international journal of haiku and art. We welcome your haiku submissions!
Deadline: Postmarked by September 15, 2016 (late entries may be accepted, but only at the discretion of the contest organizers).
Prizes: $100 for first prize, $50 for second prize, and $25 for third prize. Poems will also be published on the Haiku Northwest website (see past Porad Award Winners). Winners will be announced at Haiku Northwest’s annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway, to be held October 27–30, 2016.
Adjudication: Our 2016 judge is Charles Trumbull, former president of the Haiku Society of America and editor emeritus of Modern Haiku magazine.
Entry Fees: $1.00 per haiku (unlimited entries), in U.S. funds only. Please pay via PayPal (preferred) or by postal mail.
PayPal Payment (preferred): To pay by PayPal, please use the following PayPal button. Enter the number of dollars that matches the number of poems you’re submitting. Note that PayPal charges a fee for online payments, which Haiku Northwest is absorbing. If you wish to help offset these fees, feel free to include an extra dollar with your payment. To submit more then ten poems, please make a separate PayPal payment for additional poems. If you receive a transaction or confirmation number when you make your PayPal payment, please include that number with your email submission (don’t worry about it if you don’t receive that number). Then email your submissions (see “Email Submissions” below). PAYPAL BUTTON REMOVED HERE
Postal Payment: Please send checks/money orders made payable to “Haiku Northwest” or cash in U.S. dollars (at your own risk). Mail to the contest coordinators at the address listed below (see “Postal Submissions”).
Submissions: Poems submitted must be previously unpublished. Poems posted on public Facebook pages, blogs, or other websites are not eligible for submission. By submitting, you assert that your entries are previously unpublished and are solely your own original creations.
Email Submissions (preferred): When submitting by email, please type or paste your previously unpublished haiku in the body of the message (no attached files) and write “Porad Award Entries—[your name]” in the subject line. Include your name, address, email address, phone number, and method/date of payment above your haiku (include your PayPal transaction or confirmation number if PayPal provides one when you made your payment; please also indicate if you included any extra money to offset PayPal charges). If you are concerned about any special formatting characteristics, you may add a brief note after each applicable poem. Please do not number your poems. Send by September 15, 2016 to the contest coordinators, Richard and Kathleen Tice, at retice1950@hotmail.com.
Postal Submissions: Please submit your previously unpublished poems on 8.5x11-inch or A4 paper (multiple poems on one sheet is preferred, more than one sheet is acceptable; do not use other sizes of paper or index cards). Please submit one copy of each sheet with your name, address, and email address. There is no need to send another copy without author identification for anonymous judging because all poems submitted by postal mail will bencorporated into an electronic file and then “shuffled” for anonymous judging. Submit your entries with payment to “Haiku Northwest,” postmarked by September 15, 2016, to:
Porad Haiku Award
c/o Richard and Kathleen Tice
27049 118th Place SE
Kent, WA 98030 USA
Additional Information: See past Porad Award results. If you have questions, please email WelchM@aol.com.
