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occasional writer of haiku, horror, and other words. recent Bluesky convert. haiku/haibun/tanka/etc submission deadlines: tinyurl.com/haikudeadlines scifi/fantasy/horror submission deadlines: tinyurl.com/haikuandhorror2
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Taking Submissions: Saturday Mourning Television via: @sliceduppress.bsky.social horrortree.com/taking-submi... Deadline: June 30th, 2025 Payment: $35 and a contributors copy Theme: Short horror fiction inspired by early morning kids TV #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

current #haiku contests: (º = limited eligibility; see publisher's guidelines for details) - 3/25: Ellensburg Arts Commission Haiku Contestº - 3/28: Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest - 3/30: Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Competitionº - 3/31: medmic Fall/Winter Haiku Contest (1/x)

#haiku contests opening to submissions today: - Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational

#haiku journals reopening to submissions today: - Fireflies' Light - Frogpond - Humana Obscura - Sonic Boom - tsuri-dōrō - Under the Basho - Wales Haiku Journal

#haiku mags, anthologies & contests closing to submissions on 2/28: - Acorn - Atlanta Haiku Festival Competition - Betty Drevniok Award - cattails - Haiku Zoo - Kingfisher - ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest - Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest - Myong Cha Son Haiku Award (1/2)

Sack, sack, pick 6 The Eagles came to play!

fun little #scifi #drabble by Nissa Harlow on Substack: nissaharlowauthor.substack.com/i/154900242/...

scifi/fantasy/horror mags reopening to subs today (2/1): - Necksnap - Abyss & Apex (for fiction) - Aggadah Try It - Aurealis - Carmen et Error - Flash Point Science Fiction - JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature - parABnormal Magazine - SpecPoVerse - Tasavvur - The Deadlands (for poetry)

#haiku journals reopening to submissions today: - cattails - Chrysanthemum - Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal (theme: "blossoms") - Kingfisher - Noon: Journal of the Short Poem - Leaf: Journal of the Daily Haiku - Prune Juice - right hand pointing - The Cicada's Cry - Time Haiku - tinywords

scifi/fantasy/horror mags (& a newsletter) closing to subs 1/31: - Die Laughing Magazine - Divinations Magazine - Inner Worlds Zine - Heartlines Spec - Mysterion - On Spec - Shacklebound Books newsletter - Space & Time

#haiku contests closing in the next week or so: - 1/31: British Haiku Society Awards - 1/31: Martin Lucas Haiku Award - 1/31: Prix André-Duhaimeº (Haiku Canada) - 1/31: San Francisco International Competition for Rengay - 1/31: Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition (1/2)

scifi/fantasy/horror mags & journals closing to subs in the next week: - 1/28: The Ghastling - 1/29: Baubles from Bones - 1/29: Fantasy Magazine - 1/30: Mythaxis Magazine - 1/31: Die Laughing Magazine - 1/31: Divinations Magazine - 1/31: Inner Worlds Zine - 1/31: Heartlines Spec (1/2)

Amazone Prime members - watch out for this #phishing email claiming your payment method is expired. The email looks legit and doesn't have any of the usual spelling/grammar mistakes. ("From" address isn't Amazon, though.)

#haiku contests closing 1/31: - British Haiku Society Awards - Martin Lucas Haiku Award - Prix André-Duhaime (Haiku Canada) - San Francisco International Competition for Rengay (Haiku Poets of Northern California) - Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition

scifi/fantasy/horror mags closing to subs in the next week (by 1/17): - 1/12: Daikaijuzine - 1/12: Shoreline of Infinity - 1/14: Fraidy Cat Quarterly - 1/14: Solarpunk Magazine - 1/14: The Orange & Bee - 1/15: 100-Foot Crow - 1/15: 34 Orchard - 1/15: Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine (1/2)

wow - in the Jan/Feb 2025 issue of tsuri-dōrō, Scott Mason shows yet agian why he's one of the English language haiku greats. every one of these poems is 🔥 tsuridoro.org/issue-25-jan...

TONS of #haiku contests are open now: - 1/14: Wax Poetry and Art Haiku Contest - 1/14: Wax Poetry and Art Haiku Suite Contest - 1/19: Golden Haiku Poetry Contest (theme: "bridges of belonging") - 1/31: British Haiku Society Awards - 1/31: Martin Lucas Haiku Award (1/x)

Call for submission from Literary Revelations, Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku. Please read and if you can help you spread the word🙏❤️

some great #haiku in last month's @haikufound.bsky.social kukai, but this one by Nitu Yumnam is so powerful and skillfully presented.

Happy new year! These scifi/fantasy/horror markets reopen to submissions today: - 34 Orchard - Baubles from Bones - Cosmic Horror Monthly - Crimson Quill Quarterly - Divinations Magazine - Gwyllion Magazine - Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine - In Another Time Magazine - Inner Worlds Zine (1/2)

Hi, everyone! We're new here and would like to invite y'all to send us your work when we open for submissions in a little over a week. :) Guidelines: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/su...

start your #haiku engines... these journals reopen for submissions at the start of the new year: - #FemkuMag - Acorn - contemporary haibun online - dadakuku - first frost - Haiku Zoo - Poetry Pea - The Haibun Journal - Triya - tsuri-dōrō - whiptail

Cold Moon Journal Editor extraordinaire Roberta Beach Jacobson (known to all as Robin) is looking for her replacement. See link for details coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-...

#haiku contests & anthologies closing 12/31: - Filipino Haiku and Senryu Anthology - IHS International Haiku Contest - Matsuyama Haiku Post Contest

scifi/fantasy/horror anthologies closing 12/31: - Between Realms (Dragon Soul Press) - Future States of Stars (OwlCrate) - Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved and Insane: Nostalgic Terrors (Brigids Gate Press) - Silent Nightmares (Written Backwards) links here: tinyurl.com/haikuandhorror2

Sad news. Bruce's poems were EVERYWHERE. He was truly a force.