Seabeck Haiku Getaway 2026 Schedule

Welcome to Seabeck!

We’re developing a great schedule for you at the 2026 Seabeck Haiku Getaway! Our weekend theme is “play,” and our featured guest is Susan Antolin, visiting from Walnut Creek, California, who will give several featured presentations and workshops. 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 play), 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 an optional haiku handout or trifold to share with about 65 attendees. See you at Seabeck!

- Visit our 2026 registration page
- Visit our 2026 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):

- 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: Play

The following schedule is tentative, with much more detail still to be added.

Thursday, October 22, 2026

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

7:30 p.m. Susan Antolin: “Haiku Reading: New and Selected Work”

Description to come.

7:50 p.m. Write Now — ???: “???”

8:00 p.m. Break

8:15 p.m. “Haiku Tag” round of haiku reading

Share a haiku of your own and then tag someone to read their poem next, with mood-matching guitar improvisations by Jacob D. Salzer.

9:00 p.m. Anonymous Workshop, led by Captain Haiku

Contribute an anonymous poem into either of two hats, one for folks who have never done this before, the other for everyone else.

Friday, October 23, 2026

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Presentations and workshops

12:00 noon Lunch

1:00 p.m. Susan Antolin: “Celebrating Play in Playful Verse”

1:50 p.m. Break

2:00 p.m. Write Now — ???: “???

2:10 p.m. Presentations and workshops

5:25 pm. Kukai reminder

Submit up to two haiku anonymously, on index cards (provided).

5:30 p.m. Social break

6:00 p.m. Kukai submissions due

6:00 p.m. Dinner

7:00 p.m. 2026 Seabeck Kukai, plus silent auction and bookfair breaks

Vote on your favorite anonymous haiku. Wooden flute music provided by ???.

9:00 p.m. Rengay Riot, led by Michael Dylan Welch

Saturday, October 24, 2026

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Welcome by Michael Dylan Welch

9:10 a.m. Haiku Read-Around (one haiku each, for video recording)

9:30 a.m. Susan Antolin: “???”

10:20 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. Write Now — ???: “???

10:40 a.m. Panel discussion on play in haiku

12:00 noon Lunch

1:00 p.m. 2026 Porad Awards announced by contest coordinator, Luke Brannon, judged and announced by Antoinette Cheung, with music by ????? and ?????

1:30 p.m. Guest Zoom reading???

2:20 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. Presentations and workshops

6:00 p.m. Dinner

7:00 p.m. Silent auction wrap-up

7:30 p.m. Seabeck Celebration: An Evening Together

To be announced
Open-Mic (poetry and music)
Paper Towel Awards

Sunday, October 25, 2026

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Write Now — ???: “???”

9:10 a.m. Susan Antolin: “???”

10:00 a.m. Read-Around and 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)