LEAF Issue Eight continues our third year together as a Journal for THE DAILY HAIKU edited by the inspirational guidance and creativity of Ravi Kiran. We are very excited to announce our latest submission window for LEAF Issue Eight which will open from 1st to 31st October 2025. LEAF Issue Eight will be ready to enjoy in December.
As well as huge thanks to Ravi we are also grateful for all the continued enthusiasm, creativity and support from TDH members and we look forward to more wonderful work for LEAF Issue Eight. We are sad to say goodbye to Keith Evetts as haiku commentary editor and thank him for his wonderful support and erudite contributions. He passes the haiku commentary baton onto the talented and insightful Sébastien Revon – a fabulous welcome member to the LEAF team. We are also thrilled that Ron Moss will continue as our current haiga commentary editor.
For issue Eight we would like to continue our invitation for 18 year olds and under who are friends, family or contacts of TDH members to submit work – thank you to Amoolya Kamalnath for suggesting this wonderful initiative. So do please share that invitation.
Leaf – Journal of THE DAILY HAIKU – Issue Seven
Submission Invitation & Process
Please submit up to 5 haiku or senryu and maximum 2 Haiga or Photo Haiku previously unpublished but work that has been posted in TDH is allowed if it has not been published elsewhere. Include your Name as you wish it to appear and Country and send to submissions.leaf@gmail.com
We would also like to extend an invitation for this issue to 18 year olds and under who are family or friends of TDH members to submit. Please submit up to 5 haiku or senryu and maximum 2 Haiga or Photo Haiku previously unpublished. Include your Name as you wish it to appear and Country, the member of TDH that you have a connection to and send to submissions.leaf@gmail.com
We will acknowledge receipt of your submission.
Submissions will be accepted between 1st and 31st October 2025. Submissions received outside this submission window will not be considered.
In submitting you grant Leaf the right to reproduce your work within the Journal by giving you credit, but the intellectual property rights for your work will remain with you.
Should your work need minor edits, our editors would reach out to you. On your confirmation that you’d be okay with the suggested edit, your poems be accepted for publication. We would respect your decision to stay with your original version.
We will share with you, the status of your submission within 2-3 weeks from the time the submission window ends.
What are we looking for?
We want to showcase work that captures the extraordinary in the ordinary through haiku, senryu and haiga/Photo Haiku submissions. In line with our group guidelines at THE DAILY HAIKU we welcome all approaches (both 5-7-5 and non-5-7-5) to haiku, senryu and haiga/Photo Haiku. We encourage creativity and experimentation.
Below are some links which you may find helpful:
How to Haiku by Jim Kacian is available as a free bookhttps://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/164…
New to haiku advice for beginners by Corine Timmer
Modern Senryu by Al Pizzarelli
Haiga: Where Image and Haiku Meet
https://thegreatmargin.org/…/conversation-11-writing…/(Great advice from Marion Clarke in this blog post)
‘The Power of Juxtaposition’ by Ferris Gilli from the New Zealand Poetry Society really helps explain the importance of the cut with helpful examples showing ‘how to achieve meaningful juxtaposition’ where’ach part of a haiku must have no fundamental connection with the other part’. Link: https://poetrysociety.org.nz/…/the-power-of-juxtaposition/
Great illustrations and examples to help how to haiku ,
Got tips , a pleasure to work with you.thank you