Spring 2025 Issue

We are back and submissions are now open for the Spring 2025 Issue

Deadline – Monday 31 March 2025 at 23:59 your local time.

Theme – HUMANITY” and/or any Seasonal Subjects at your northern or southern hemisphere location during spring (autumn) months

Here is the submissions call –

Dear Kuyu,

When the world goes crazy, we still write haiku. When fakes, aggression and destruction seem to prevail, we doggedly carry on writing haiku nonetheless. That’s the way not only can we remain sane, truthful and peaceful but also can preserve what’s left of human decency, creative joy and dignity. Haiku has little monetary value. It brings no conspicuous physical benefits. That is precisely its most precious asset…uselessness.

HAIKU POEMS IN ENGLISH OR IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION: TEN haiku poems which are inspiring, refreshing and exciting, and which have not been published or are not considered for publication elsewhere. Please make sure to send them to BOTH of the following addresses: [email protected] AND [email protected] (New site especially designed for WHR submissions). If you send them only to one address, they could get lost in the procedure. Also, please do not send them in attachments, which will not be opened for security reasons, but within the email text.

DEADLINE: Monday 31 March 2025 at 23:59 your local time.

SUGGESTED THEMES: “HUMANITY” and/or any Seasonal Subjects at your northern or southern hemisphere location during spring (autumn) months (These themes are not obligatory but shown here only as a suggestion). The only criterion for selection is quality.

Book Reviews have been discontinued for the time being.

The rest of the detailed guidelines can be found on the About page, HERE. Please read and follow them.

We wish to endeavour to present a unique haiku magazine which, while deeply rooted in tradition, is full of new ideas, innovative features or critical views. It will continue to aim at the highest standards and top quality.

Kengin to all,

Susumu Takiguchi
Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Chairman, The World Haiku Club

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