UHTS – The “AHA” Haiku/Senryu Contest ALERT!

December 27, 2019Colleen M. Chesebro 28 Comments

One of my goals for 2020, is to encourage poets to enter more contests, including myself. The way I look at it:

How can we gauge our poetic abilities if we don’t get feedback from others outside of our usual writing community?

The United Haiku Tanka Society has the perfect solution!

The “AHA” Haiku/Senryu Contest (the Annual Hortensia Anderson Memorial Awards)

The UHTS “aha” (Annual Hortensia Anderson Memorial Awards) for haiku/senryu, is in honor of a well known and respected New York-based haiku poet, Hortensia Anderson. Thank you for your participation in keeping the memory of a wonderful person who dedicated so much of herself to our haiku community over the years… rest in peace Hortensia.

You are encouraged to submit in your native language in addition to your English submission.

Please see the General Submission Guidelines for further information.

Submission Period and Deadline: January 1-January 31 of each year.

Make sure and read all of the instructions! Brush up on your Haiku and Senryu writing skills by clicking the link below:

How to Create Haiku, Haiga, Senryu, Tanka, & Haibun Poetry

How to Write Haiku in English I love poetry and believe that if you start writing “good” poetry, it will help you to become a better creative writer. That being said, I also like rules in poetry. T…

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Yecheilyah’s First Annual Poetry Contest – Grand Prize Winner!

August 7, 2017August 7, 2017Colleen M. Chesebro 5 Comments

The winner has been chosen for Yecheilyah’s First Poetry Contest! ❤ Congratulations to the winner, Merril D. Smith. ❤

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Hey Guys!

I am honored to introduce to you our Grand Prize Winner of my first poetry contest!

First, a special thank you to Colleen and Lisa for helping me to put this together. With my schedule, I could not have done it without you two! Family, please go ahead and follow their blogs. You WON’T be disappointed!

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Next, I would like to thank everyone who entered as well as those of you who shared this contest. It is not easy to “stand” up here and do something like this so thank you for your support.

Drumm Rollll…

Congratulations to Merril D. Smith for her poem “Zora Neale Hurston.”

Not only did it touch on our theme, but it embodied so much of Zora that I felt like if I didn’t know who she was before, I did now. Here’s what Colleen had to…

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Poetry Contest – Closed

July 20, 2017July 20, 2017Colleen M. Chesebro Leave a comment

Yecheilyah’s First Poetry Contest is closed… ❤

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Photo by Jan Kahánek on Unsplash

First, I want to thank everyone who supported this contest. Whether you re-blogged or shared this across social media or participated, thank you.

I want to give a special thanks to Colleen Chesebro for allowing me space on her blog to host this and for promoting it in her weekly poetry features.

As you all know I have just released a new book and am just getting in from travel. It has therefore been a challenge to promote this contest and the book simultaneously. While I did not time the contest well, I am excited to have had the opportunity to do it and look forward to reviewing the entries and announcing our grand prize winner.

The contest is now officially over. I would extend it but honestly, it is not a good time. There are some family things to take care of and…

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Poetry Contest Reminder: Closing July 19, 2017

July 3, 2017July 3, 2017Colleen M. Chesebro 1 Comment

Yecheilyah has opened up the contest to all poetry: “I understand not all of you are familiar with this era so I am opening this up a bit. The theme will remain the same but it is not mandatory. Poems of all kinds will be accepted and considered for the win.” WOO HOO! Now get busy and write some poetry! 😀

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As you all know, I am running my first ever poetry contest in honor of my upcoming release Renaissance: The Nora White Story (Book One) which features poetry and is available now for eBook preorders.

Click Here to order at the low price of $1.99 before the price goes up on July 15th.

This book will also be available in paperback.

You can help further by marking Renaissance as to read on Goodreads. CLICK HERE.

Now, poetry…

I am writing to remind you that this contest will end soon!

First, what is this all about? For those of you who have not already checked into Colleen’s Blog where I made the initial announcement on June 19, 2017, here are the rules:

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