A
celebration and competition devoted to the haiku form of poetry
Dear Haiku Lovers,
The ukiaHaiku Committee wants to thank everyone who participated in the 2024 competition and festival. We are especially grateful to all of the poets who submitted work, over 1,000 submissions from 30 countries!
We are taking a break over the summer and will reconvene in the fall to plan next year's event. In the absence of a few more ardent volunteers (is that you??) we anticipate that the 2025 festival will be scaled back, celebrating the haiku spirit through the offerings of local haiku enthusiasts and audience members while not holding a contest.
If you are interested in volunteering for the ukiaHaiku festival, please email us: ukiahaikufestival@gmail.com
Stay tuned for more information and have a wonderful summer.
Love,
ukiaHaiku Committee
P. S. The pdf of winners from 2024 is below.
Read winning haiku of
past festivals:
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2024
We are thankful to Michael Dylan Welch, passionate haiku advocate and author, for judging the Jane Reichhold International category since Reichhold's death in 2016.
The 2024 ukiaHaiku festival was made possible in part by a grant for youth outreach from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was supported by North Coast Opportunities.
The ukiaHaiku Festival was also sponsored in part by the Grace Hudson Museum, Mendocino Book Company, City of Ukiah (Ukiah Civic Center), Ukiah Branch of the Mendocino Library, Wave Books, Tsadik, Mendocino Book Company, Schat's Bakery, and the Arts Council of Mendocino County.
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