Folks, the December 1 issue is coming along nicely, BUT we will close submissions for this issue on November 25th at Midnight Eastern Time!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Mike

Results of the Jane Reichhold Haiga Competition are now available, with winners entries, and links to the Honorable Mentions as well! This was a wonderful way to honor Jane, and the entries were nothing short of stunning! Thanks to our judges as well. Michele Root-Bernstein, Kris Kondo, and Ron C. Moss did a great job, and their write ups are a small instruction book on haiga and the senryu form. Steve Hodge, editor of Prune Juice Journal, which by the way has a new issue out TODAY, and I could not be happier! Congratulations to all the winners and the honorable mentions, and thanks to all who participated!

CLICK HERE for ISSUE 11!!!

With 165 pages to this issue, it is by far the largest ever! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the success of Failed Haiku!

Mike Rehling

Your ‘Failed’ Editor

P.S.  Check out a great journal of small poems that is becoming a favorite of mine! Hedgerow, a journal of small poems is edited by Caroline Skanne. It comes out every Friday, and a bookmark to this site will let you start your weekend with a smile.

Well, the long awaited ‘Guy Fawkes’ November 5th edition of Failed Haiku will be out at Midnight tomorrow night. This is BY FAR the largest issue we have done, and will be over 160 pages long!

Also, the Winners of the Jane Reichhold Haiga Competition, along with Judges Comments, will also be published. Quite a collection of poets in this issue:

Cast List
In order of appearance
(all work copyrighted by the authors)

Well, the results are IN, and the winners and honorable mentions in the Jane Reichhold Haiga Competition have now been notified.  Check your email, and if you have not been notified then you are free to submit your work elsewhere. The entries were all stunning! The winners, and the judges write ups will be published in Prune Juice Journal and Failed Haiku on November 5th!

Submissions for Failed Haiku will CLOSE on November 1st for the November 5th issue! Remember, this is our Guy Fawkes Day edition, so it will be a ‘BANG UP’ issue. It is already larger than any of our past issues, and we still have some time to go, so get your submissions in quickly to be a part of it.

We have thousands of downloads every single month, and with back issues our circulation is booming. Feel free to pass the word!

Mike

This issue is the usual eclectic mix of senryu and senryuish poetry! Lots to like here, and an enjoyable tour of the senryu form in all it’s various colors!

Cast List
In order of appearance
(all work copyrighted by the authors)

Julie Warther
Dan Schwerin and Julie Warther
(Julie Warther and Angela Terry)
Willie R. Bongcaron
Ashish Narain
Gail Oare
Simon Hanson
Eva Limbach
Theophilus ‘Femi Alawonde
Jerry Dreesen
Pris Campbell
Pat Davis
Maeve O’Sullivan
Garry Eaton
Steve Smolak
Dave Read
Madhuri Pillai
Ian Willey
Jesus Chameleon
Fatma Gultepe
Michael O’Brien
Jo Balistreri
Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Bruce H Feingold
Elmedin Kadric
Rachel Sutcliffe
Debbie Strange
Guliz Mutlu
Bruce Jewett
Olivier Schopfer
Nells Wasilewski
Adjei Agyei-Baah
Marietta McGregor
Lorin Ford
Lynn Edge
Nola Frawley
Nancy May
Chen-ou Liu
Lynette Arden
Angela Terry
Nathan Hassall
Celestine Nudanu
Robert Witmer
Christina Sng
Kwaku Feni Adow
Barbara Kaufmann
Meik Blöttenberger
Barbara Tate
Bob Carlton
David Oates
Christina Martin
Lucia Fontana
RashaadThomas
Ed Bremson
Rob Scott
Helen Buckingham
Ivan Gaćina
Marshall Bood
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
Susan Burch
David J Kelly
Keitha Keyes
Goran Gatalica
Shloka Shankar
Aparna Pathak
Ola Lindberg
Debbi Antebi
Elizabeth Crocket
Bob Lucky
Elizabeth Alford
Chase Gagnon
Peter Jastermsky
Zoran Doderovic
Steve Black
Jill Lange
Bill Kenney
M. Pattison
Myron Lysenko
Jennifer Hambrick
Anthony Q. Rabang
Joe McKeon
Munia Khan
Gabriel Bates
Rick Hurst
Diarmuid Fitzgerald
Eric A. Lohman
Francis James Franklin
Sondra Byrne
Tim Graves

CLICK THIS LINK TO READ THE ENTIRE ISSUE

Alan Summers, a poet, and teacher/student of haiku and senryu has written a wonderful essay on the senryu form. Filled with great information and links to outside sources this is something you will want to read, download, and refer to in the future. Senryu is often placed two steps down from haiku, but Failed Haiku believes they can share the same pedestal. Please read and enjoy:

The golden Carousel of Life:  Senryu
An Application to be a) human
by:  Alan Summers

Want more from Alan?

His TedX talk on YouTube

His poetry Blog

This is the largest issue ever, and it is crammed with a lot of wonderful poets. There is something for everyone in this issue.

Thanks to everyone for making this effort such a success!

You can download the current issue here:

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue9.pdf

Announcing!

The Living Senryu Anthology

Project

The Living Senryu Anthology project launches today! It is the close cousin of The Living Haiku Anthology, started and run by Don Baird and Hansha Teki. They have elected to put senryu at the same level and catalog and promote some of the finest poets of the form, so this project sets out to attract the best senryu poets writing in English to this new site.

A team of editors have been assembled, and the processes set in place to handle your submissions for inclusion into the site. Take a look at the submissions guidelines, and meet the editors who will be reviewing submissions.

Why should you submit? Your work will remain on the Internet in perpetuity. It will get picked up by Search Engines, and the audience for your work will increase many fold. You also will help familiarize others with the power and range of the senryu form! You win as a poet, and the senryu form will be better understood in the bargain.

WE ARE READY TO ACCEPT YOUR SUBMISSIONS TODAY!

PDF of this announcement here:

Announcement PDF File

The Ninth Issue of Failed Haiku will be up at Midnight! The largest issue yet, and full of some of your favorite senryu poets!

Pris Campbell
Jesus Chameleon
Garry Eaton
Dave Read
Christina Sng
Rachel Sutcliffe
Bruce Jewett
Eva Limbach
Simon Hanson
Ian Willey
Olivier Schopfer
Goran Gatalica
Martha Magenta
Radka Mindova
Kwaku Feni Adow
Barbara Tate
Peter Jastermsky
Louise Hopewell
Billy Antonio
Angela Terry
Adjei Agyei-Baah
Mary Harwell Sayler
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Chen-ou Liu
Mark Gilbert
Yesha Shah
Ed Bremson
Mike Gallagher
Susan Burch
Elmedin Kadric
Helen Buckingham
Meik Blöttenberger
Debbie Strange
Paresh Tiwari
Barnabas Ikeoluwa Adeleke
Diana Petkova
Fatma Gultepe
Guliz Mutlu
Maya Lyubenova
Patricia Pella
Debbi Antebi
Rick Hurst
Barbara Kaufmann
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
Nicholas Klacsanzky
Elizabeth Crocket
David J Kelly
Willie R. Bongcaron
Adam Rehn
Nina Kovačić
Nancy May
Celestine Nudanu
Zoran Doderovic
Gail Oare
Steve Black
Tricia Marcella Cimera
Mohammad Azim Khan
Jackie Maugh Robinson
Myron Lysenko
Marietta Jane McGregor
Margaret Jones
Jill Lange
Chris Martin
Devin Harrison
Sandi Pray
Gabriel Bates
Anthony Q. Rabang
Sondra J. Byrnes
Elizabeth Alford
Gergana Yaninska
Angelee Deodhar
Ola Lindberg
Bill Kenney
Munia Khan
Robyn Cairns
Shloka Shankar
Tash Adams
Jacob S. Blumner
Kevin Valentine
Jade Pisani
Chad Lee Robinson
Roberta Beary
Stevie Strang
Terri L. French

The last day for submissions for the September 1 Issue will be August 28th at Midnight EDT.  Remember, you can submit works that have been previously published, or on Twitter or other blogs or social media. We just want to see your best work is all.

Mike