“Haiku that Move Us” – Limited-Enrollment Online Class with Scott Mason

This four-session Zoom class will focus on the reader’s experience of haiku, utilizing a combination of mini-presentations by the instructor and class discussion—principally of participants’ haiku written to supplied prompts and presented anonymously. The class will be limited to nine participants (minimum of six), with the enrollment fee going in its entirety to The Haiku Foundation.

Dates/times: four successive Wednesdays next month (beginning August 6, 2025) from 7-9 PM EST.

Class fee: introductory price for this first-time offering is $375.00 (or $325.00 for any participant under 35). This will be processed as a donation to THF and may be partially tax-deductible.

Class prerequisites:

• access to email and Zoom
• acquaintance with The Wonder Code: Discover the Way of Haiku and See the World with New Eyes (available to read here at no charge from The Haiku Foundation’s Digital Library), in order to establish a common baseline of haiku familiarity among class participants
• agreement to complete an evaluation by the week following the last class session

Enrollment procedure: email Scott at SCMviaNet(at)aol.com [Subject line: Haiku that Move Us] to determine if you are among the first nine sign-ups, in which case you will then receive payment instructions and the first-session assignment; the enrollment deadline for this class is Wednesday, July 16, 2025, although available spaces may fill before that date.

About the instructor: Scott Mason is on the board of The Haiku Foundation and a former associate editor (2011-2021) with The Heron’s Nest. His book The Wonder Code received the Kirkus Star from Kirkus Reviews, the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award from The Haiku Foundation and a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America. The online haiku class he taught for the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College during the pandemic received the highest evaluation rating from all fourteen participants. Scott’s own haiku have placed first in more than two dozen international competitions.