HAIBUN
and HAIBUN ESSAY:
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES.......
WORLD HAIKU REVIEW
Editor: Ray Rasmussen
DEADLINE FOR AUTUMN ISSUE (WHR 5-2): Midnight Friday,
30 September 2005, your local time.
1. WHO CAN SUBMIT: Submissions are open world-wide to readers of the World Haiku
Review online.
2. SUBMISSIONS: Poets may submit 1 original haibun (see below).
a. Contemporary haibun come in many forms. We want to publish haibun that show a
variety of these forms.
*
A basic element in most contemporary haibun is haibunic prose. Haibunic prose
has many of the characteristics often associated with haiku:
present tense (and shifts of tense though predominant voice "present");
shortened or interesting syntax;
limit joining words
(conjunctions), such as "and";
a sense of "being there"
rich descriptions of places and people
remembrances written as if being lived now;
and above all: "brevity"
Please see the
WHChaibun column in this issue for examples and tips for writing haibun
* Haibun with haiku - usually only one haiku but some people prefer more -
this should link by association to the prose:
the haiku can either summarize the feeling or tone of the prose, but not
repeat it;
or the haiku should carry on beyond the end point of the prose;
In short, just as haiku often contains an element of juxtaposition, so does
the relationship between the prose and haiku.
3. ESSAYS, ARTICLES and NEWS: Poets may submit 1 new, original essay on topics
of interest to poets of haibun. There is no limitation on essay length at this
time. For essay submissions, include your brief biography, footnotes, and an
introduction to yourself and your work as related to poetry. Articles and news
of interest to haibun poets may also be submitted. Send manuscripts separately.
(BOOK REVIEWS & PUBLICATION NEWS
MUST BE SENT SEPARATELY TO SUSUMU TAKIGUCHI)
4. Works in non-English languages must be accompanied by good English
translation, which will be used for selection purposes.
5. Single-space prose text and haiku, and left aligned, unless special
formatting is required.
6. Include your name (and nom de plume, if applicable); Surname in capital
letters (EX: John BUNYON; Sara Elizabeth JAMES; Tatsuo SUZUKI, Susumu TAKIGUCHI;
Include your country of residence and area within country [state, province,
territory,etc. (if more than one, please include all);
Include your e-mail address.
7. Please use HTML formatted e-mail (not "Plain Text" or MS Word format).
Please type your text, poems and manuscripts directly onto the body of the
e-mail; do not copy and paste your text into the e-mail from a word-processing
document.
8. Send submissions in the main body of the e-mail, not as an attached file.
9. SUBJECT FIELD of EMAIL for WHCHAIBUN: "WHChaibun Submission for World Haiku
Review"
Send submissions for WHChaibun by email to Ray Rasmussen at:
ray at raysweb dot net
DEADLINE FOR AUTUMN ISSUE (WHR 5-2): Midnight Friday,
30 September 2005, your local time.
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