WHC NEWS
Re: Charnwood Arts miniWORDS haiku competition
From: Paul Conneally
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Dear Haiku Friends,
The World Haiku Club has a long association with Uk's Charnwood Arts and
with its miniWords HAIKU competition.
Once again we would like to join with Charnwood Arts in encouraging you to
submit your highest quality haiku to Charnwood Arts miniWORDS haiku
competition.
The last miniWORDS haiku competition was judged by Susumu Takiguchi and Debi
Bender who both travelled to Loughborough in Charnwood Uk to do the judging
in person.
Here is a link to an interview with Debi and Susumu done during their visit
to Charnwood Arts - in fact during the very process of judging:
http://odeo.com/audio/1861222/view
This year the judges will hopefully include WHC officials again and this
will be announced after the deadline for submissions has passed.
Any form from traditional to contemporary western forms including the
'zip'are acceptable
There is £250 first prize winner making this one of the biggest of all
haiku competitition prizes and it is totally free to enter. Second and third
place, commended and highly commended places will also be awarded (although
there are no prizes for these). .
The closing date for this competition is 16th February 2007.
This competition is open to entrants worldwide aged 14 years and over. All
winning and commended entries will be included on the miniWORDS 2007 website
to make the work available to an international audience.
We hope to publish in collaboration with Charnwood Arts some of the entries
in the WHR too.
Entries as many as you like can be emailed to the below with your full
contact details or posted by overland or airmail.
Put 'miniwords haiku submission' in the subject line
miniwords2007@charnwood-arts.org.uk
miniWORDS 2007
Charnwood Arts
31, Granby Street
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3DU
United Kingdom
Please share this invite as widely as possible
all that's best,
Paul Conneally
Education and Regional Director
World Haiku Club
