Submission Guides

Next Submission Date starts May the 10th!

PLEASE don’t forget to make your submission by email to Bryan at: editor@failedhaiku.com

Our one hundredth issue! Can you even believe it? The third issue of the year will have an open issue with no theme but I would like to curate a small section at the end of featuring tan-renga style poems, just like the recent issue featuring cherita. I look forward to reading your work starting on May the 10th.

Submission Schedule:

Jan 10-25 – Target publication date: the last day of February 

March 10-25 – Target publication date: the last day of April

May 10-25 – Target publication date: the last day of June

July 10-25 – Target publication date: the last day of August

September 10-25 – Target publication date: the last day of October

November 10-25 – Target publication date: the last day of December

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL WORK MUST NOW BE UNPUBLISHED

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL IMAGES MUST NOW BE ORIGINALS OR WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH AN ARTIST. NO STOCK IMAGES OR AI IMAGES PLEASE. 

DUE TO THE OVERALL SIZE OF EACH ISSUE OF FAILED HAIKU, THE EDITOR REQUESTS SHORT HAIBUN TO BE THE NORM.

What the Poet needs to do:

  1. Include your name in the body of the email as you wish it to appear.
  2. Please send 2 to 8 senryu style poems per submission period. Please only 1 submission per submission period.
  3. Submit your work in the body of an email with NO attachments except haiga. GIF, JPEG, or PNG formats for images are allowed. Please submit no more than 2 haiga, haibun, or longer forms in any submission period. They will be counted towards your 8 submission pieces.
  4. Your work can NOT be previously published. This is a change so that we can nominate for Best of the Net, Pushcarts, and Touchstones. 
  5. Give us work you have judged to be a senryu. If you are not sure about the senryu form, then click the Links section of the top menu and do some reading before you submit.
  6. Accept that if your poem is not selected it is no big deal and does NOT mean that your work is not good. No single editor is the final arbiter of what is good or bad. 
  7. Proof your own work. 
  8. Please indicate whether you are open to suggestions or not. 

What Failed Haiku will do:

  1. Read and respond to your work. If we don’t get back to you feel free to contact us. An email can go astray, and mistakes get made. 
  2. We will reproduce your work as written, BUT we cannot guarantee a particular typeface or perfect formatting due to the limitations of the editing tools and software used. If you ever have a concern, please contact us immediately.
  3. Your submission to Failed Haiku is considered to be your permission for us to promote it on social media, and in any publications we may publish at a future date.

Okay, that should do it. PLEASE don’t forget to make your submission by email ONLY to:  editor@failedhaiku.com.

Bryan Rickert – ‘Failed’ Editor – Mike Rehling Founder