2022 Events

Haiku Northwest invites you to attend any of our free monthly meetings, which usually focus on rounds of sharing and workshopping our haiku, with occasional presentations and writing exercises. Listed here are all our meetings, a few special events, plus significant regional or national events. If you’re giving a haiku workshop or know of another haiku event in the area, please let us know so we can add it. Monthly meetings usually start at 6:30 p.m. with informal socializing, with a more formal start at 7:00 p.m., and occur on the second Thursday of each month, except as indicated. For 2022 we will also have quarterly meetings on selected weekends in place of that month’s Thursday meeting. All dates and details are subject to change, and will be confirmed via the Haiku Northwest Mailchimp mailing list (through which you may be provided additional details, such as Zoom links—if you have questions, please email haikunw1988@gmail.com). To suggest regional haiku-related events to add to the following schedule, please contact Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com. We’ll update content as soon as we confirm the details. See you at our next event!

In addition to the following events, the Washington region of the Haiku Society of America usually has an annual regional meeting at a time and place to be determined.

2022 Meetings

All online via Zoom, unless specified otherwise, and all times Pacific Time.

January 8 (Saturday)

Quarterly Meeting, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Tanya McDonald, coordinator

12:50 p.m. — Zoom room opens

1:00 p.m. — Welcome and announcements (Tanya)

1:15 p.m. — Break-out rooms (introduce yourself and share a haiku)

1:30 p.m. — “Haiku in 2022—Opportunities and Resources”

(presentation and discussion, led by Tanya)

2:00 p.m. — Break

2:10 p.m. — “How Haibun Work” presentation by Lew Watts

2:55 p.m. — Break

3:00 p.m. — Anonymous Haiku Critique Session (poems submitted beforehand)

3:55 p.m. — Wrap-up

4:00 p.m. — End

February

National Haiku Writing Month

September 17???

Porad Haiku Award Deadline

(received by this date)

See submission guidelines (FREE to enter) (guidelines to come)

Winners announced at the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, on October 29

Monthly Meeting, 7:00 p.m.

Details to be announced

Please also check the schedule for the Seattle Japanese Garden (see this website also). Several of the garden’s events typically include a haiku component, such as the moonviewing festival, which usually includes a haiku contest.

Click also to see event listings for 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009.

Haiku Northwest meeting at the Lake Forest Park Library, September 27, 2018. Left to right are Cara Izumi, Millie Renfrow, Ron Swanson, Curtis Manley, Arlene Springer, Philaah Jones, Terran Campbell, Tanya McDonald, Dianne Garcia, Gary Evans, and Angie Terry. Photo by Michael Dylan Welch. Please join us!

Haiku Northwest meeting at the Bellevue Regional Library, August 7, 2008. Left to right are Curtis Manley, Helen Russell, William Scott Galasso, Ida Freilinger, Bryson Nitta, Tanya McDonald, Connie Hutchison, Dejah Leger, Susan Miller, Terran Campbell, Joshua Beach, Angela Terry, Marilyn Sandall, and Herb McClees. Photo by Michael Dylan Welch. Please join us!