Here it is folks, just finished two minutes ago!!!
http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue21.pdf
I want to thank you ALL for being so supportive!!!
Mike
Issue 21 is now UP for your reading pleasure!!!
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Closed to submissions for this month, AND new Submission Guides!
The September 1 issue is now closed to submissions! Thanks to everyone who has submitted!
Please read carefully the NEW Submission Guides. I have had to change things due to all my communications issues, which continue. Here are some highlights!
- Hard close each month on the 25th of the month.
- Submissions should be submitted, if you can remember, between the 10th and the 25th of the month.
- NO ATTACHMENTS other than haiga. Word documents are a pain in the ass for everyone, and create downloading and formatting nightmares. If you have sent them this month, no worries I will muddle through, but please try to remember in the future.
- I WILL respond to all submissions, but I can no longer give you any firm timeframe. So sorry, but yesterday alone the Internet went out 50 times! I have tried satellite, 4G, and exhausted every option. Our community is working to develop better service options, but that may take a year or more!
- Please note also that from the start we have accepted previously published work.
I am committed to publishing, ON TIME, in the current format through the December 1 issue. After that Failed Haiku will be changing its format to allow me to publish under less stressful conditions. My friend the Internet has deserted me, so I need to just switch things around so FH can continue.
As always I enjoy reading your work, and interacting with you!
Peace
Mike
Submissions are OPEN!
I still have crappy to NO Internet, but please feel free to submit!!!
Mike
Issue 20 is now UP!
Well, after a month of in and out (mostly out) Internet this issue is now UP! I apologize to all of the poets for the lack of my usual timely response the last two and a half months. It truly bothered me, but most all of your have been very understanding. I love my home in the woods, and we do have most modern conveniences, BUT cell phone service, Internet options, and any cable or fiber optic options are out of the question. Things ‘appear’ to be improving so I do have hope.
Enjoy this issue, and we will forge ahead next month, hopefully with less outages and drops. Over 170 pages for your reading pleasure in this issue though:
http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue20.pdf
Peace
Mike
A ‘hard close’ this month on submissions!
Still struggling with the Internet, and so this will another ‘hard close’ this month. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE submit before midnight Eastern Time on the 25th of the month!
Our area is very rural, with high trees, limited cell phone, and no ‘standard’ Internet connection. We are NOT on any government list to get improved service either, so accepting this fact is my option.
Sorry for the incovienence, but I am still pumping away on submissions, and will send them out as quick as I can.
Peace
Mike
A few words, and an update!
- My Internet is back, although up and down. They ‘say’ that by the end of August they should have it ‘upgraded’ and ‘sorted’. They sound sincere, and at least now the interruptions are shorter in duration. I live in the woods, and this minor issue won’t change my love for the location. Thank you all for being understanding.
- I love editing Failed Haiku. The poets that submit make me happy. I will continue to do it. The current format will remain through the end of the year. Then, I will ‘give this old dog a new collar’. No announcements yet, I just want everyone to keep me busy for the next few months, and then I will let you know what the future holds.
- We accept, willingly and happily, PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK. Please send me the ‘good shit’ that you have written, regardless of it appearing somewhere else prior. I have never understood the prohibition on work that has appeared in another journal, on Facebook, Twitter, or whatever. I am happy to give your contest winner, your editor’s choice poem, or work from print or online journals another home. We do not publish attributions (just too much hassle), but it is YOUR poem, so please feel free to share it. No need to tell me about prior publication though, since it has no impact on my selections.
- People sometimes ask what I am looking for, and the answer is: good poems! The niche we have chosen is: ALL OF THEM!!! If you have something ‘senryuish’ that does not ‘fit’ somewhere else, send it in and give it a try! No one should consider this a slam at other editors, since every journal has to find it’s own way, and editors are only obligated to make clear what they are looking for, mine is a very open mind.
Peace
Mike
Issue 19 is UP, and the Murtha Contest Results are IN! Big issue!
Poets, yeggs, and thirsties!!! If you are ready to ‘binge read senryu’, then this issue will fill you to the BRIM!
We have:
A short article by Anita Virgil!
A video of haiga by Alexis Rotella!
Almost 170 pages of sernyuish poems!
and last, but NOT least: THE RESULTS OF H. GENE MURTHA SENRYU CONTEST!
http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue19.pdf
Update!
My Internet is back, and I am ‘almost’ caught up!!! Reading and getting back to everyone in the next two days is the goal. Many of you already have your responses. Been reading all day and getting tired right now, and I NEVER read other people’s work when I am exhausted!
Will be back on the case tomorrow morning!
We WILL publish on time!!!
Some really great work coming in, and I am stoked to be reading your work!
Peace
Mike
The digital divide….
My Internet provider is not providing the Internet to me with any regularity. Since I am a thirty minute drive from the ‘real world’ where the Internet is freely available and reliable I am having to ‘make do’.
For this reason I am behind any reading for the last three weeks, and will be imposing a HARD DEADLINE for submissions this month of: June 25th at Midnight Eastern Daylight Time. We WILL publish on time, as usual, but I just need to have time to review everything.
Sorry for the delay folks, but I do ‘everything’ in the cloud, and have for years, so we just are where we are for now. For the record my provider ‘says’ they are ‘enhancing’ our system and it will be stable soon. 🙂
Some wonderful work coming in, and I thank you all for being understanding!
Peace
Mike
Winners of the H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest selected!
Folks,
Steve Hodge, editor of Prune Juice Journal, and I, have completed the judging for the contest! The the three prize winners have been sent email notifications! The poems will be published in the July 1 issues of PJ and FH.
This year, we decided to change things up a bit, and will be publishing the ENTIRE short list from the contest. There are four or five dozen poems on the ‘short list’, and we will include them when we release the results. In the next forty eight hours I will get the emails out to everyone, but since we judged this ‘blind’ I have to do a lot of back and forth to get the names attached to the poems correctly.
We just thought there were so many great senryu on the list that it did not seem fair to not acknowledge the work of those poets as well.
We want to thank EVERYONE who submitted, but you did make it tough on us to pick the winners. Some wonderful poets, and Gene would be very happy that all of you are carrying on the form that he loved so much.
Steve Hodge and Mike Rehling
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