The Haiku Contest
SHARPENING THE GREEN PENCIL
organized by the
Romanian Kukai Group
The ROMANIAN KUKAI monthly contest will have been
celebrating 5 years of online activity on April 1st, 2012. The contest is
addressed to those who can write in Romanian only. It has been and still is an
excellent means to promote haiku for those who can speak Romanian. Furthermore,
the haiku online contest has become a genuine school where a new generation of
authors have promoted it.
The experience which has been gained in these years
determine us to initiate a contest in English, language which the mostly used
by the haiku writers presently. The majority of the subscribers to our contest
in Romanian have been participating to the international contests in English
rendering appreciating results. We agree that the time has come to offer them a
chance to confront the world wide writer in a contest organized by us. It is a
celebrating contest but we hope and wish it will become a yearly event. A
contest which, as most recognized contests, comes to stimulate the creativity
of the authors and the quality of their poems, to represent a means of mutual
understanding and to enriching everyone’s experience.
The
contest's name is inspired by one of the well known lyrics of Elena Manta
Ciubotariu's haiku : spring - / the child is sharpening / the green pencil,
awarded in 1995 at one of the international contests organized in USA.
Contest rules
1. The
contest is open to the public, regardless of age or nationality. Members of the
executive committee are not eligible.
2. The contest is free of charge.
3. There is preference for the unpublished poems in media, volumes or on
the internet.
4. The
participants are required to send two haikus in English. They are asked to send
the native variant of the poems also.
5. There is no theme imposed.
6. The poems
will be sent only by e-mail at eduard_tara@yahoo.fr. At the subject box
it is mandatory to write haiku contest
2012. The actual message must
contain the poems which should be accompanied by the participant’s credentials:
(name, surname, postal zip code, e-mail address).
7. The
deadline is 15th of March 2012.
8. The
secretary of the contest will copy and transmit the list of poems to the
members of the jury by e-mail, without mentioning the contestants’ names or
personal data.
9. The jury will appreciate the originality and the complexity of the
poems in accordance with the spirit of the classic haiku.
10. The jury
will award three prizes and, also, a number of commendations which will be
decided depending on the quality of the poems. Each rewarded author will
receive by mail a diploma and a copy of the printed anthology of the contest.
11. The awards will be made public on April 1st, 2012 on the official Romanian
Kukai site http://romaniankukai.blogspot.com.
12. The received poems will be published in an anthology dedicated to the
contest which will be available to the public on the official Romanian Kukai
site http://romaniankukai.blogspot.com.
13. The authors who send poems for the contest agree that their poems
should be published in the contest’s anthology under no pretense of financial
demands. The authorship can be claimed following the publication of the poets
in the anthology.
14. The jury will be formed by Corneliu Traian
Atanasiu, the founder of the online haiku movement from Romania, Dan
Doman and Cezar Florin Ciobîcă.
1 comment:
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