THE RESULTS OF AN INTERNATIONAL HAIKU CONTEST ON THE THEME OF THE GOURDS 2020
THE RESULTS OF AN INTERNATIONAL HAIKU CONTEST ON THE THEME OF THE GOURDS 2020
The Haiku Association „Three Rivers“
The „Pumpkin Festival“
The Tourist Board of Ivanić-Grad, Croatia
This year we received 347 haiku from 31 countries as follows: Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Phillipines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, UK, USA and Vietnam.
Congratulations to all authors!
FIRST PRIZE
Susan Burch, USA
this divorce
gutting the pumpkin
seed by seed
TWO SECOND PRIZES (in no particular order)
Marie Derley, Belgium
blossoms of pumpkins
the wide open petals
of my kimono
Second place: Neal Whitman, USA
large and fleshy
both my favorite uncle
and my prize pumpkin
THREE THIRD PRIZES (in no particular order)
Debbie Strange, Canada
ghost pumpkins
winter arrives without
a sound
dl mattila, USA
tucka tucka
tee dee kitta, shoosh shoosh shoosh
the language of gourds
Arunachalashiva Ravisankar, India
dry cucurbit flask
a monk tries to take out
his rosary
TEN HONORABLE MENTIONS (in no particular order)
Elumach Frederic, Nigeria
a boy cut his hands
while dicing a pumpkin…
all red on white shirt
Julie Bloss Kelsey, USA
pumpkin seeds
roasted with salt, just a pinch
of my childhood
Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Vietnam
Halloween
even pumpkins make faces
at our costumes
Isabel Caves, New Zealand
a spoonful
of fireplace
pumpkin soup
Dan Iulian, Romania
surrealist market –
among the gourds a child
with watercolors
Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan, Croatia
my raincoat pocket
the pumpkin seeds with the smell
of naphthalene
Carol Reynolds, Australia
waiting
for an artist’s brush
dried gourds
Marilyn Humbert, Australia
pickers campfire
pans of pumpkin seeds
popping
Benjamin Blaesi, Switzerland
between damp leaves
the song of the cricket
and melon flowers
Franjo Ordanić, Croatia
an afternoon coffee
the pumpkin seeds
on exchange
The contest was judged by Beate Conrad.
BIO: Motto: Live (mind)fully. Travel light. Experience the world with open eyes. Nothing lasts forever.
Beate Conrad was born and raised in Northern Germany. After living thirteen years abroad, she chose the city of Hildesheim, Germany, to become her new home in 2015.
She writes, paints, takes photographs, creates sculptures and her own music. She is especially interested in haiku as literary art and in its analysis. Since 2005, she has been analyzing and writing modern poetry in the tradition of Japanese short form poetry. Essays also appeared in Japan. Her haiga have been awarded twice (2007 second prize, 2009 first prize) by the World Haiku Association, Japan. In 2009, she won a Tokusen (Second Prize) of the 14. International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, an Honorable Mention in the Mainichi Haiku Contest 2010 and a 2nd prize, Best of Mainichi 2010. Since 2012 Beate Conrad has been editor-in-chief for the international, bilingual haiku-magazine “Chrysanthemum”.
Contact: haiku.chrysanthemum@gmail.com
www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net
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