Past Haiku Contest Winners

Post date: Jul 20, 2020 1:47:39 AM

Several new updates now appear on the Haiku Northwest website, all to do with past contests. First, on the Porad Haiku Award page, look for a link to “Early Washington Poets Association Haiku Contests,” a short report of haiku contests sponsored by the WPA before it established the Porad Award for haiku in 2004. This report covers three contests that date from 1973, 1980, and 1994. In addition, full results and commentary have been added for the years 2005 (but without the judge’s commentary), 2006, 2007, and 2008, after rescuing this content from the Wayback Machine (Internet archive website), which had records of this content when it was available on the Washington Poets Association website before that organization was dissolved in 2013. We still have not been able to find the commentary for the 2005 results, but will happily add that once we find it, which will complete our historical haiku contest records.