Evan Vandermeer is the recipient of a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun for 2024 for this haibun: The Shape of a Life Do you remember how, when we first met, and it was my turn to stand in front of…
Lorraine Haig is the recipient of a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun for 2024 for this haibun: Trapped He slices through the pristine reflections in his tinny. It’s high tide. Zipping up creeks like a dragonfly, he slides on the…
Peg Cherrin-Myers is the recipient of a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun for 2024 for this haibun: Midwest Nice I always imagine when I take my mother’s ashes out of the armoire, I will be ugly-crying with snot, tears and…
Roberta Beary is the recipient of a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun for 2024 for this haibun: Grief: The Uncut Version childhood desk i trace initials no longer mine Life is a scratchy film reel that plays in your head,…
The Haiku Foundation is pleased to announce the Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun, honoring haibun published in 2024. Two hundred fifty haibun were nominated by poets, readers, and editors around the world, from dozens of journals, books, and contests. After…
The Haiku Foundation is pleased to announce the Short List for the 2024 Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun. These Awards recognize excellence and innovation in English-language haibun published in juried public venues during each calendar year. Our Short List for…
The Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun recognize excellence and innovation in English-language haibun published in juried public venues during each calendar year. In 2024, we received 250 distinct entries (a 9% increase over 2024), submitted from 51 journals (and even…
Nominations are only open through December 31 for the 2024 Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun! Please send us two of your favorite haibun, one of which may be your own. Nominated haibun must have been published for the first time…
Nominations are open for the 2024 Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun through December 31! Please send us two of your favorite haibun, one of which may be your own. Nominated haibun must have been published for the first time in…
Nominations are open through the end of the year for the 2024 Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun! Please send us two of your favorite haibun, one of which may be your own. Nominated haibun must have been published for the…
Nominations are now open for the 2024 Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun! Please send us two of your favorite haibun, one of which may be your own. Nominated haibun must have been published for the first time in 2024 and…
Rich Youmans is the recipient of a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun for 2023 for the haibun: What's Underneath Bianca lays out the cake just as her father is wheeled into the dining room. The orderly pats his shoulder —…
Kati Mohr is the recipient of a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun for 2023 for the haibun: All These Things In front of a store in Manila, mask on. A queue. People stand six feet apart. Men with guns check everyone…
Claire Everett is the recipient of a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun for 2023 for the haibun: A Thousand Thens wind-shimmered wheat the kestrel’s belly uplit A solitary walk through the fragrance of all that’s green and golden, and suddenly,…
Matthew Caretti is the recipient of a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun for 2023 for the haibun: Deep Water Port barbed-wire fence winter stars hung out for the night A ripple of harbor lights becomes some recurring dream. Moving aft…
The Haiku Foundation is pleased to announce the second-ever Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun, honoring haibun published in 2023. More than 225 haibun were nominated by poets, readers, and editors around the world, from dozens of journals, books, and contests…
The Haiku Foundation is pleased to announce the Short List for the 2023 Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun. These Awards recognize excellence and innovation in English-language haibun published in juried public venues during each calendar year. In this second year…
The Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun recognize excellence and innovation in English-language haibun published in juried public venues during each calendar year. In 2023, we received 229 distinct entries submitted from 36 journals (and even more issues!), books, or contests…
If you haven't yet nominated a haibun (or two) for a Touchstone Award, you've got less than a week to do so: nominations for the Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun remain open only through the December 31! Please send us…
Nominations for the Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun remain open through the end of this month! Please send us two of your favorite haibun, one of which may be your own. Nominated haibun must have been published for the first time…