Haiku Down Under 2024 

Haiku Down Under 2024, being held online via Zoom over the weekend of August 16-18, 2024, is seeking proposals for online presentations and workshops along the line of our theme A Sensory Journey. We encourage new and experienced presenters to submit proposals that will offer something fresh and vibrant to, primarily, the trans-Tasman haiku community. Although we expect to have audience members from around the world, we want to ensure that new and established haiku writers in Australia and New Zealand feel that their experiences, environments, languages and cultures are front and centre in the programme.

Tentative running times for Haiku Down Under events:

• Presentation/talk: 20-25 minutes, including questions (if the speaker is willing to take them, please advise if not)

• Workshop: 50-55 minutes

• Prompted writing session: 5-10 minutes.

We are aware of what the time differences across our two nations may mean to those leading a presentation or workshop so are happy to consider pre-recorded items as long as both vision and sound are of the highest quality. 

Presenters will need to be comfortable using Zoom (including sharing a screen if, for example, slides are being shown), have good audio and camera equipment (either built in to a computer or external), and have reliable connectivity. We hope that rehearsals will help catch and fix any last minute bugs. 

While the bulk of proposals we receive will likely focus on haiku, we are also open to senryu, linked forms, haibun, haiga, tanka and other cross-genre art forms, so please consider those topics too. 

If you decide to offer a proposal aligned to our theme of A Sensory Journey for consideration, please click on the button below to complete our confidential form, which asks about your connection to our region, your format (workshop/presentation), a brief description of your content and what you expect the take-away to be for the audience. 

At this time, there is no remuneration available for presenters.