About this Writing Project

Before you start work on a story for this Writing Project, please take a few moments to read these few paragraphs as they describe exactly what is expected of participating authors and their submissions.

Haiku is a Japanese poetic form dating back to the 16th century.  Traditionally, in order to qualify as haiku the subject or theme of the poem should be nature.  There is a related poetic form called senryu, which are traditionally poems about the human condition.  However, in contemporary haiku it is the form and structure that is more important than the theme, with poems written on a range of different subjects.

For more information about haiku, and to read examples of traditional and contemporary work, please review the following articles:

How to Write Haiku by Gerald England

Contemporary Haiku: Origins and New Directions by A C Missias

History of Haiku by Ryu Yotsuya

Haiku Writing by Marty

For this Writing Project we will not be strictly enforcing the rules pertaining to haiku.  If the syllables are off or the structure is slightly wrong, we will still accept the work.  There is, after all, such a thing as poetic license.  That said, we do ask that participating authors make an effort to produce haiku or haiku-style work when participating in this Writing Project.

Further, we won't be enforcing any rules regarding the subject matter.  What we are looking for in this Writing Project is contemporary haiku, and that means that there is no subject that is out of bounds, so have fun, experiment, and see what contribution you can make to this collection.

Rules

Sign Up: Signing up to participate in this Writing Project is not required.  Members and authors may simply submit their work unsolicited.

Submission Deadline: This is an ongoing project so there is no deadline for submissions.

Submission procedure: Please submit your poetry via the form linked to in the Submissions section of this page.

Genre: Any.

Poem titles: Authors are free to come up with their own titles.

Copyright and License: By submitting work to, and publishing work as part of, a Writing Project at The Authors Haunt, you grant to The Authors Haunt and its owners a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, display, publish, and communicate to the public, worldwide, the submitted content, in whole or in part, at The Authors Haunt (or any part thereof, including subsidiary sites).  All rights to said work, including copyright and moral rights, remain the property of the original author.  This license agreement applies to work submitted as part of a Writing Project only.

Please note that by submitting you work to an anthology at The Authors Haunt you are granting us an irrevocable right to display that work.  That means that while you can request your Writing Project submissions be removed, and we will consider that request, we are under no obligation to remove any Writing Project submissions from the site.  As a general rule, we do not remove work published as part of an Writing Project here at The Authors Haunt.  You retain all copyright and moral rights, and are free to publish the work elsewhere from 24 hours after the work is published at The Authors Haunt.

Graphic Usage: The Authors Haunt will create an icon for your submission for use on the Writing Project main page.  This icon will be designed to be in keeping with the Writing Project theme.  Resident Authors are free to submit suitable graphics for use on their sites at The Authors Haunt.  Authors are free to use graphics designed by The Authors Haunt design team on their sites at The Authors Haunt, in their signature on The Authors Haunt Community Forums, or elsewhere provided the graphic is used to link back to their poetry here.  Authors may not use graphics designed by The Authors Haunt design team to link to, or as headers for, work published elsewhere.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Writing Project coordinator.

Submissions

Before submitting your work to The Authors Haunt, please ensure that it has been properly edited.  If you have used the services of an editor, we strongly recommend that you provide an acknowledgement note, which can be included in the "Comments" section of the submission form.  Please pay attention to the genre, type, rating and warnings fields and ensure you apply suitable coding in each section.

To submit your work to this Writing Project, please click here.