2019 Events

Haiku Northwest invites you to attend any of our free monthly meetings. Listed here are all our meetings, a few special events, plus significant regional or national events. If you’re giving a haiku workshop or know of another haiku event in the area, please let us know so we can add it. Monthly meetings usually start at 6:30 p.m. with informal socializing, with a more formal start at 7:00 p.m. and occur on the second Thursday of each month, except as indicated (for 2019 we have switched to the second Thursday instead of the fourth). All dates and details are subject to change, and will be confirmed via the Haiku Northwest mailing list (through which you may be provided additional details). To join our mailing list or to suggest haiku-related events to add to the following schedule, please contact Angela Terry at haikunw1988@gmail.com. We’ll update content as soon as we confirm the details. See you at our next event!

In addition to the following events, the Washington region of the Haiku Society of America is having its annual regional meeting in Bellingham, Washington on August 27, 2019, from 10:00 a.m. until dinner ends after 6:00 p.m.

January 10 (note change to the second Thursdays instead of the fourth)	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.	Bellevue Library 1111 110th Ave NE in Bellevue, Washington Meeting Room 4	Facilitated by Tanya McDonald Featured reader: Bob Redmond
January 20	“Haiku/Haiga Workshop: The union of image through words and visual art,” 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., free	Judd Creek Ranch Gallery 22237 103rd Avenue SW, Vashon, Washington	Facilitated by Ann Spiers — register here
February	National Haiku Writing Month	Visit the NaHaiWriMo website and the Facebook page	Write at least one haiku per day for each day of February
February 3	“Haiku on Steroids” workshop 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, $35	Open Books 2414 N 45th Street, Seattle, Washington	Facilitated by Michael Dylan Welch — register here
February 14	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m. MEETING CANCELED DUE TO SNOW	Bellevue Library 1111 110th Ave NE in Bellevue, Washington Meeting Room 4	Facilitated by Tanya McDonald
March 14	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.	Bellevue Library 1111 110th Ave NE in Bellevue, Washington Meeting Room 4	Facilitated by Michael Dylan Welch Special presentation by Dale Dvorak: “Lyrical Images” (haiku written in response to Japanese woodblock prints by Suzuki Harunobu, Katsukawa Shuncho, and Utagawa Hiroshige)
April 6	Poetry Prowl	Ellensburg, Washington	Michael Dylan Welch and Tanya McDonald reading collaborative haiku
April 11	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.	Bellevue Library 1111 110th Ave NE in Bellevue, Washington Meeting Room 3	Facilitated by Angela Terry
April 13–14	Sakura Days Japan Fair	VanDusen Botanical Garden Vancouver, British Columbia	Various haiku events
April 17	International Haiku Poetry Day
April 19	Haiku Reading, 7:00 p.m., free	Open Books 2414 N 45th Street in Seattle	Featuring Tanya McDonald and Michael Dylan Welch
April 20	Special Haiku Northwest Business Meeting, 1:00–3:30 p.m.	Montlake Library 2401 24th Ave E Seattle, Washington
April 26–28	Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival	Seattle Center Seattle, Washington
May 9	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.	Bellevue Library 1111 110th Ave NE in Bellevue, Washington Meeting Room 4	Facilitated by Michelle Schaefer
May 17–19	Haiku Canada Weekend	University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia
June 13	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.	Bellevue Library 1111 110th Ave NE in Bellevue, Washington Meeting Room 4	Facilitated by Tanya McDonald Featured speaker: Ron Swanson on Japanese tea ceremony
June 29–30	Japan Fair	Meydenbauer Center 11100 NE 6th Street in Bellevue, Washington
July 11	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.	Bellevue Library 1111 110th Ave NE in Bellevue, Washington Meeting Room 4
July 20	Poets in the Park	Anderson Park Redmond, Washington	Includes Haiku Northwest poets reading from our new anthology, Zigzag Bridge
August 7–11	Haiku North America conference	Winston-Salem, North Carolina
August 8	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.	Bellevue Library 1111 110th Ave NE in Bellevue, Washington Meeting Room 4	Facilitated by Michelle Schaefer
September 12	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.	Bellevue Library 1111 110th Ave NE in Bellevue, Washington Meeting Room 4	Facilitated by Tanya McDonald
September 13, 14	Moon Viewing Festival, 6:00 p.m.	Seattle Japanese Garden	Haiku contest each night
September 20	Porad Haiku Award Deadline	See submission guidelines (winners announced at the Seabeck Haiku Getaway in October)	Tom Painting, judge
September 28	Japan Festival	Bellevue College Bellevue, Washington
October 10	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.	Lake Forest Park Library 17171 Bothell Way NE Lake Forest Park, Washington	Facilitated by Tanya McDonald
October 24–27	Seabeck Haiku Getaway (our twelfth annual retreat)	Seabeck Conference Center Seabeck, Washington	Our theme for the weekend is “attention,” with Adam L. Kern as our featured guest
November 14	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.		Facilitated by Tanya McDonald Featured reader: Gary Evans
December 12	Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.		Holiday party

Please also check the schedule for the Seattle Japanese Garden (see this website also). Several of the garden’s events typically include a haiku component, such as the moonviewing festival, which usually includes a haiku contest.

Click also to see event listings for 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009.