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seashores
an international journal to share the spirit of haiku

 

The objective of seashores is to share haiku from all over the world and explore how the way and the spirit of haiku, with its power to connect us to nature and our world can play a role in poetry and our lives in general.

 

ONLINE EVENTS

seashores is looking to hold three to four online haiku events every year for the subscribers, contributors and the haiku community. These may be workshops, discussions on haiku or competitions and will be announced by email and via social media.

 

NEXT EVENT

 

 

FUN HAIKU SLAM

with special prizes

 

Date: Sunday 29 May 2022

Time: 1700-1800 (Dublin, Ireland, Time)

Requirements: Internet connection, laptop or tablet/smartphone with sound/video functions.

 

You can email to register as participant or spectator for this fun haiku slam. All you need to participate (beside IT requirements above) is app. 25-30 haiku (or senryu, published or unpublished) of yours to read…

 

Judges to be advised after deadline for participants on Sunday 15 May.

 

Deadline for “spectators”: Sunday 22 May

 

Participants will be put together in groups of 3 or 4 (depending on the number of participants) and “play a match” against each member of his/her group.

 

The winner (or top two participants, depending on the number of groups) will progress to final phase.

 

 

 

PREVIOUS EVENTS

 

Date: Sunday 9 May 2021

Time: 1800-1930 (Dublin, Ireland, Time)

Requirements: Internet connection, laptop or tablet/smartphone with sound/video functions.

 

Presentations by 4 of the 7 seashores contributors who had their collection selected by The Haiku Foundation for the Touchstone Award Short List (2020) and will have 'carte blanche' to share their insight and experience (haiku, publication...)

- Ashraf, Hifsa. Her Fading Henna Tattoo (Wilmington DE: Human/Kind Press, 2020).

- Fabre, Gilles. Along the Way: A Search for the Spirit of the World (Uxbridge UK: Alba Publishing, 2020).

- Kelly, David Small Hadron Divider (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).

- Polette, Keith. pilgrimage (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).

 

In the second part, Maeve O'Sullivan (see short bio below) will give her feedback on a selection of haiku sent by contributors/participants.

 

Bio: Maeve O'Sullivan’s poetry and haikai have been widely published and anthologised. She is the author of four collections from Alba Publishing, with a fifth, Wasp on the Prayer Flag (haiku& senryu), forthcoming in June 2021. Maeve leads workshops in haiku & related forms, and reviews for Blithe Spirit & other journals.Twitter @writefromwithin

 

To conclude, for the third part, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions to the presenters.

 

If you want to attend this event, please send an email to haikuspirit@haikuspirit.org (please copy to seashoreshaiku@gmail.com) by 6 May 2021, advising your name and first name as well as your country of residence, and you will receive the link to attend the online event.

 

 

PREVIOUS EVENT

 

Date: Sunday 31 January

Time: 1700-1830 (Dublin, Ireland, Time)

Requirements: Internet connection, laptop or tablet.

 

Next seashores online haiku event will start with the special guests who will have ‘carte blanche’ to share their insight and experience in writing, editing or publishing haiku. A workshop will follow during which the 25 haiku sent by seashores contributors will be discussed. Then, a vote will determine the favourite haiku and the winner's name will be revealed (and the prizes).

 

Haiku have been received from Ireland, UK, France, Belgium, Caribbean’s, Croatia, Portugal, Canada, USA and India…

 

Special Guests

Amanda Bell (Ireland), Co-editor of The Haibun Journal

          website | twitter @gagebybell | instagram @amanda_bell_books

 

Jay Friedenberg (USA), President, Haiku Society of America

 

Caroline Skanne (UK), Editor, Blithe Spirit (the journal of the British Haiku Society) & hedgerow

          twitter @CarolineSkanne | instagram @carolineskannehaikuetc

 

Alan Summers (UK), founding editor, The Blo͞o Outlier Journal and co-founder, Call of the Page

 

If you want to attend this event, please send an email to haikuspirit@haikuspirit.org (please copy to seashoreshaiku@gmail.com) by Friday 29 January and you’ll receive the link to attend the online event.

 


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