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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:44 pm

Entries are invited for this prestigious international anthology, the purpose of which is to help raise the quality and range of the haibun genre, which combines poetic prose and haiku.

Entry fee: £6.00 or US$12.00 for the first haibun entry, £3.00 or US$6.00 for every additional haibun.
Cheques and British Postal/International Money Orders should be made payable to 'British Haiku Society'
Due to high currency and clearance charges, payment can only be accepted in Sterling by cheque drawn on a UK bank branch, by British Postal Order, in Sterling / US cash (paper money only), or by International Money Order.

Conditions of Entry: Open to all (except BHS Committee members and any others involved with the administration of the Anthology). Submissions must be written in English, and between 100 and 2000 words long, including haiku. Work must be unpublished and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Each haibun should be given a title. Entries will not be returned, so please retain a copy of each submission for yourself. Copyright reverts to the author after publication in the Anthology. In the unlikely event of an insufficient quantity and/or quality of submissions, those that are received will be carried forward for consideration for the 2011 Anthology.

Submission details: Three copies of each haibun, with each copy starting on a separate A4 or US Letter sheet. One copy must show your name, postal address, telephone number (and e-mail address, if any). The other copies must carry nothing which identifies the author. Entries on disk (floppy or CD, in Word format) will be happily accepted. If you require acknowledgement of receipt of your entry, please either request an e-mail acknowledgement or enclose a self-addressed envelope with appropriate UK stamp or an IRC (which must be stamped by the issuing office), or US$2.00 in bills.
For postal notification of results, enclose a second sae with UK stamp, IRC or US dollar bills.

Address for entries: Andrew Shimmield, BHS Haibun Anthology, 18 Deepwell Close, Isleworth, Middx. TW7 5EN, UK.

Closing date: in hand by 1 February 2009

Assessment and Appraisal of entries: The process of assessment and appraisal will be undertaken by Jo Pacsoo and Lynne Rees. They will select the haibun for publication in the Anthology, and will provide an appraisal of each haibun selected. It is anticipated that the Anthology, whose title will be drawn from the selected haibun, will be published by December 2009. The authors of all the selected haibun will receive a free copy of the Anthology.

Copyright reverts to the author on publication, but entry to the 2009 Anthology signifies agreement to your work being published digitally by the Society or copied for archival purposes (for example, by the British Library or the Poetry Society).

From: http://www.haikusoc.ndo.co.uk/

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