Nominate for the 2025 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems!
We look forward to seeing your nominations soon!
In 2012 The Haiku Foundation created the Touchstone Awards — the highest awards in the field — to reward excellence and innovation in the genre. Award categories are best individual haiku/senryu, best individual haibun, and best haiku publications. Overview: THF Touchstone Awards | Host: Bruce Feingold.
We look forward to seeing your nominations soon!
Nominate your favorite new collection for a Touchstone!
Nominate your favorite new collection for a Touchstone!
We look forward to seeing your nominations soon!
Nominations are open through the end of the year for the 2025 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…
Nominate your favorite new collection for a Touchstone!
Show your favourite haibun some love
Nominate your favorite new poems for a Touchstone!
Nominate your favorite new collection for a Touchstone!
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