The With Words International Online Haiku Competition 2008

Here at With Words we believe in acting locally and thinking globally, so half of any profits from this competition will go towards literacy work with children in developing countries, and half will go to supporting With Words literacy projects in the UK.

Prizes:

1st Prize: £200

2nd Prize: £50

Form:

For the purposes of this competition haiku should consist of three lines but may have any syllable count. For examples of contemporary haiku please click onto "more" at the top of the page to bring up different haiku, and for further information on the haiku form, please click onto: what.html.

Judging:

Entries will be processed by a With Words administrator and judged anonymously by Japan Times award-winning poet Alan Summers.

Who can enter?

Entry is open to anyone except With Words’ appointees involved in the administration and judging of the competition.

Entries must be your own work in English and you must be the sole copyright owner of the work. In future years, it may be possible to open up the competition to other languages.

Entry Fees:

£2 per haiku
£5 for 3 haiku
£10 for 10 haiku

To Enter:

Pay for the number of poems you wish to enter into the competition, using a credit or debit card, by clicking on one of the PayPal buttons above and following the instructions. Please retain your Paypal Transaction ID number, as you will need to quote this as proof of purchase when you send your competition entries.
Please email the following to: competitions@withwords.org.uk, with 'Haiku 2008' in the subject line.

In the body of the email please list:

The Paypal transaction ID number that you received as confirmation of the purchase of your competition entries.
Your Name.
Your Address.
You can then list your haiku. Please do not give your haiku a title, but instead number them from 1 upwards, up to the total number of entries you have bought.

Important!

Please send your entries in plain email text only, with just one clear line of space between each numbered three-line poem.
For ease of processing to the judging stage, you are kindly asked to refrain from including illustrations of your poems, or any special spacing or tabs, or non-standard fonts.
Your haiku will be copied and pasted before judging to retain anonymity of the authors.

Deadline:

All entries should be received by the end of Saturday 31st May, 2008.

Results:

Winners and their winning poems will be announced on this website by Friday 1st August 2008.

If you wish to receive a notification of the winners by email, please send an email to competitions@withwords.org.uk, with no message except “Notify 2008” in the subject line.

We also look forward to posting details of the proceeds raised, and announcing the literacy work we are able to fund from this competition.

Privacy and mailing list:

We will not use your email address for any other purpose, or pass it on to any third parties. However, if you would like to receive occasional updates on With Words news, events, and competitions, please send an email with “Add me” in the subject line to list@withwords.org.uk. You can take yourself off the mailing list at any time by sending “Remove me” in the subject line to the same address.

The Mean Stuff:

With Words reserves the right not go ahead with the competition if there are insufficient entries to cover the prize money. In the event that this is the case, entry fees will be returned. The decision of the judge is final, and correspondence will not be entered into. Entry into this competition implies acceptance that the competition will operate in the manner as described in all paragraphs above.