Due to some timing and technical issues, the Jane Reichhold Haiga Contest results will not be released this year at their normal date of November 5th. It will take us a few days to dot all of our i’s and cross all of our t’s. My sincerest apologies for the inconvenience and for the delay. November 10th will be our new date for contest results this year. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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| Announcing The SeventhJane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition Failed Haiku is happy to announce the senryu haiga competition in honor of Jane Reichhold. Jane’s passing touched many of us; her love of all the haiku arts was legendary. We especially wanted her love of haiga and of senryu to be remembered and celebrated by artists and poets of both forms. We have assembled two judges for this competition: Steve Hodge and Hemapriya Chellappan. Their decisions will be final. Here are the rules of the competition: 1. Two First Place winners will be chosen from the following categories: 1. Traditional Haiga, as in ink, ink wash, watercolor, oils, or tempera. 2. Photographic and mixed media-based haiga. 3. All should contain a ‘senryu’ as the poem. 2. Winners in each category will be published in the November 5 issues Failed Haiku, along with a short write-up by the judges. 3. The entries can be by a single artist providing both senryu and image, OR any form of collaboration between artists. Please be sure to include complete attribution to both images and poems with your entry. 4. Only TWO entries per artist, and collaborations will count toward both artists’ totals. 5. All entries can be sent in either JPG or PNG formats and should be of high quality. 6. In the email containing your entry please tell us ‘briefly’ about how the image was created AND what category you are entering them in! 7. Entries should be original work that has not appeared in any edited journal, but work that has been displayed on social media or personal websites is acceptable. 8. All entries will be sent by email to reichholdhaiga@haikuhut.com ONLY. 9. Entries will ONLY be accepted from October 15 to October 20th at Midnight Eastern Time. Any entries received earlier or later will NOT be judged. 10. The judges will render their final decisions by October 30th, and the top three winners will be notified shortly thereafter. 11. The judges will, at their sole discretion, name ANY number of other entries as Honorable Mentions or Highly Commended. Jane Reichhold was a poet/artist who worked in every form of haiga, some of which can be found at her site: AHA Poetry. A short memorial for her is posted at Under the Basho, with a link to her own long body of work. Jane inspired many, and we hope she will continue to inspire. Some of her own haiga can be found at her site: AHA Poetry. Bryan Rickert |
A big thank you to Hemapriya Chellappan for guest editing this great issue. It’s a wonderful issue from front to back. Another fantastic Failed Haiku senryu read.
Bryan Rickert
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