Seabeck Haiku Getaway 2025 Schedule

Welcome to Seabeck!

We’ve developed a great schedule for you at the 2025 Seabeck Haiku Getaway! Our weekend theme is “birds,” and our featured guest is Kristen Lindquist, visiting from Camden, Maine, who will give several featured presentations and workshops—and birding walks. Other events include writing workshops, anonymous critique sessions, readings, presentations, haiku writing time, a panel discussion, and more. Write Now sessions are brief haiku writing exercises, and we’ll have four of them this weekend (relating to our weekend them of birds), where we invite you to write spontaneously. All events take place in the Pines building unless indicated otherwise, with meals at the dining hall. Fall colors will be vibrant, too! If you have silent auction or book fair items to set up, you can do so at any time. Please also prepare a haiku handout or trifold to share with about 65 attendees (optional). See you at Seabeck!

• • Visit our 2025 registration page

  • Visit our 2025 general information page

  • Visit Seabeck Details (everything else you need to know—important stuff)

  • Learn about Getting to Seabeck (ask us if you need travel advice)

On display all weekend in the Pines building (upstairs):

• • “Haiga Adventure” artwork by members of the Haiga Adventure Study Group of Puget Sound Sumi Artists, coordinated by Dorothy Matthews

  • Plus your own haiga or other haiku-related artwork if you have any to show

Weekend theme: Birds

The following schedule is very partial. Once posted in full, our schedule will be subject to revision.

Thursday, October 23, 2025

4:00 p.m.         Check in starts at the Historic Inn

6:00 p.m.         Dinner

7:00 p.m.         Welcome by Michael Dylan Welch

   Kristen Lindquist reading

Friday, October 24, 2025

8:00 a.m.         Breakfast

9:00 a.m.         Morning sessions

12:00 noon     Lunch

1:00 p.m.         Afternoon sessions

6:00 p.m.         Dinner

7:00 p.m.         Evening sessions

Saturday, October 25, 2025

8:00 a.m.         Breakfast

9:00 a.m.         Morning sessions

12:00 noon     Lunch

1:00 p.m.         2025 Porad Awards announced by contest coordinator

1:30 p.m.         Group Photo (plus individuals/small groups)

2:00 p.m. Afternoon sessions

6:00 p.m.         Dinner

7:00 p.m.         Evening sessions

Sunday, October 26, 2025

8:00 a.m.         Breakfast

9:00 a.m.         Morning sessions

10:15 a.m.       Weekend Highlights (gratitude, discussion, and sharing)

11:00 a.m.       Clean-up (we must be completely cleaned out of the room by noon)

12:00 noon     Lunch

1:00 p.m.         Check-out time! (all room keys must be turned in by 1:00 p.m.)

1:30 p.m.         Afternoon activity (optional, to be announced, if anything)

Happy Halloween!