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May 15th, 2026
Haiku Magazine Contest #2 – First Place
"Among the branches" (first line)
by David McMurray
(Algonquin Highlands, Ontario, Canada)
May 15th, 2026
"symphony of sighs" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
May 15th, 2026
"The flowers wilted" (first line)
by John Chalk
(Linthicum Heights, Maryland, United States)
May 15th, 2026
"I called once again" (first line)
by Zahir Turaj
(Zeewold, Flevoland, Netherlands)
May 15th, 2026
"Under the frost moon" (first line)
by Guohua Li
(Montebello, New York, United States)
May 15th, 2026
"last train through the dusk" (first line)
by Vaishnavi Pusapati
(Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India)
May 15th, 2026
"The deep discomfort" (first line)
by Kailyn Kazlauskas
(Thompson, Manitoba, Canada)
May 15th, 2026
"All of a sudden" (first line)
by Eliza Coco
(Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand)
May 15th, 2026
"Reflection of light" (first line)
by Zahir Turaj
(Zeewold, Flevoland, Netherlands)
May 15th, 2026
"moon in the train" (first line)
by Marie Derley
(Ath, Wallonia, Belgium)
May 15th, 2026
"Write, edit, redo" (first line)
by Dean Monaghan
(Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland)
January 15th, 2026
Haiku Magazine Contest #1 – First Place
"Stories strung with wool" (first line)
by Nina Padolf
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States)
January 15th, 2026
"oil pipeline blockade" (first line)
by Kim Goldberg
(Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada)
January 15th, 2026
"In the autumn woods" (first line)
by Guohua Li
(Montebello, New York, United States)
January 15th, 2026
"You are the harvest" (first line)
by Katherine Landry
(Burbank, California, United States)
January 15th, 2026
"rainstorms and ashes" (first line)
by Ri Dela Borj
(Porac, Pampanga, Philippines)
January 15th, 2026
"a blooming Malus" (first line)
by Jennifer Zimmer-Wilson
(Newbury, Victoria, Australia)
January 15th, 2026
"blue moon by the bay" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
January 15th, 2026
"Dandelion spores" (first line)
by Ryan Warring Bird
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
January 15th, 2026
"no pages wrinkled" (first line)
by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
(Verona, Veneto, Italy)
January 15th, 2026
"mini gazebo" (first line)
by Sheikha A.
(Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
January 15th, 2026
"Sound of snapping twigs" (first line)
by Athena Pajer
(Bloomington, Illinois, United States)
January 15th, 2026
"Snow blankets. Hides scars" (first line)
by Michael O'Connor
(Medina, Ohio, United States)
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