Happy New Year. We are very excited to announce our latest submission window for LEAF Issue Six open from 1st February to 1st March 2025. LEAF Issue Six will be ready as we celebrate our fifth anniversary at THE DAILY HAIKU on the 20th and 21st March 2025.
Thank you again to our editor Ravi Kiran. Thank you too for all the continued enthusiasm, creativity and support from TDH members and we look forward to more wonderful work for LEAF Issue Six. This issue 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 Six
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Please submit up to 5 haiku or senryu and maximum 2 Haiga or Photo Haiku previously unpublished but work that has been posted in TDH is allowed if it has not been published elsewhere.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 Please submit up to 5 haiku or senryu and maximum 2 Haiga or Photo Haiku previously unpublished.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 February and 1st March 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
https://thehaikufoundation.org/new-to-haiku-advice-for…/
Modern Senryu by Al Pizzarelli
https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/1219
https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/1219
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/
Looking forward to your submissions.
Editor Ravi Kiran
Please look at previous LEAF Issues here: www.leafjournal.io by going to the blog section
In order to submit to LEAF you have to be a member of THE DAILY HAIKU which is free to join and fosters an invitational space for creativity, connection and of course haiku and all its associated forms.
Join here www.facebook.com/groups/THEDAILYHAIKU
Enjoy a year’s worth of blogs at The Great Margin www.thegreatmargin.org
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Mighty waves in red
rolling through the morning sky.
Stars fade in awe.
If a haiku has been posted on my Facebook page or on my blog, is it considered to be “published?”
If the haiku or haiga was posted within THE DAILY HAIKU Facebook group you can submit it to LEAF but if it is on any other online places eg, your blog then sadly not eligible for the Journal.
Dear Amanda,
I’m sorry for late comment. I hope you will forgive me. I’ve a always loved The Leaf Haiku journal. I’ve recognized it as one of the most assimilating, welcoming and secular journals so far. First it molds new haikai writers into established ones through its The Daily Haiku and endeavors to provide a world stage with The Leaf.
I wish you, your editorial team, and The Daily Haiku for their continuing growth and success.
Warm regards,
Tejendra Sherchan
Nepal
Your comment is much appreciated and there is never such a thing as a late comment. Your feedback on LEAF is very welcome as ‘the most assimilating, welcoming and secular journal’. We have a very dynamic community at THE DAILY HAIKU where writers can explore haiku, share ideas with others and make good friends in a safe and invitational space. Thank you for your good wishes Tejendra.