Issue 31 is UP AND Murtha Contest Results!

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My thanks to Chase Gagnon and Lori Minor for editing this issue. What a beautiful collection of haiga! My ‘guest editors’ have turned in to a real inspiration to me personally, and I hope you all feel that way too. Don’t forget to take a look at the zine they edit either. Scryptic is fast becoming a crowd favorite in the haikai world!

In this issue, we also have the Results of the H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest! Steve Hodge and I had a real blast reading the entries, and as we did last year we also published the ‘short list’ so you could all see how difficult it was to choose a winner! Congratulations to every poet who participated, as well as the winners!

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue31.pdf

Peace

Mike

 

H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest Results

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Steve Hodge and I have finished the judging and the three top senryu poets have been notified by email. This was a contest of a special variety! So many fine poems and we both want to thank you all!

As we did last year there are a few dozen poems in the ‘short list’, and they will be published on July 1st with the winners!

While you are waiting please take a moment to read from Gene’s fine work and remember what a warm character he was, and how he influenced so many of us in our work:

BIDING TIME

Steve Hodge and Mike Rehling

Submissions for the July Issue now OPEN!

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This month the Failed Haiku ‘guest editors’ will be Lori Minor and Chase Gagnon!!!

This is  HAIGA ONLY issue, and here are the editor’s guidelines:

“For this issue of Failed Haiku, We’re looking for Haiga! We want to see haiga that transcend both the image and the poem, and become something completely new — Simply put, we want to see the image and the poem “spark” together like steel and flint, creating a fire of resonance! All mediums are welcome, from photographs to paintings and everything in between. We can’t wait to see your work!”

PLEASE SUBMIT up to THREE HAIGA ONLY TO editor@failedhaiku.com!!! Submissions for this issue are now open and will close at midnight EDT on the 25th of the month.

 

 

Issue 30 has hit the Internet!!!

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My sincere thanks to Roberta Beary for being the ‘failed editor’ of this issue! There are some wonderful haibun in this issue by some of my favorite poets! Please pour yourself a glass of your favorite beverage and prepare to enjoy…

 

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue30.pdf

 

Next month is another ‘special’ month, so please HOLD your submissions!!!

Third Annual Murtha Senryu Contest!

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We will begin taking submissions to the H. Gene Murtha Memoria Senryu Contest! Check out the contest guidelines HERE and PLEASE PAY ATTENTION THE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES!!! Especially the email address and the submission window!

Mike Rehling and Steve Hodge

Guest Editor – Roberta Beary

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“Send  haibun that tries something completely different, that takes the form to a new level, that experiments, that plays into and with the senryu concept!”
Unpublished but previously published considered if first pub. credit included in info to editor. LIMIT THREE Haibun per submission.
Publication is called “Failed Haiku -A Senryu Journal” so haibun must contain only senryu, not haiku. Previously published senryu ok in the haibun if noted to the editor.
Haiga haibun will also be considered.
SUBMISSION PERIOD:  10TH TO THE 25TH
All submissions sent to editor@failedhaiku.com

Issue 29 is UP!!!

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This issue, guest edited by Shloka Shankar, is now up for your viewing!!! There are 47 haiga by some astoundingly good haijin! I am so impressed that Shloka could FAIL so superbly! She has taken failure to a whole new level. Sincerely thank her for find job editing FH this month. And keep your eyes on SONIC BOOM also!

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue29.pdf

NEXT month the Guest Editor will be Roberta Beary, and the focus of the issue will be HAIBUN! I will be posting the submission guides in a few days, please WAIT before submitting.

Peace and good reading…

Mike