Haiku Contest

Previous Prize Winners

The Results of the 16th HIA Haiku Contest

The Award ceremony for the 16th HIA Haiku Contest was held at Ichigaya Arcadia on Saturday December 6th, 2014. The six prizes were presented to the winners by representatives of the four Japanese haiku organizations and the two companies sponsoring the prizes. A lecture, "in search of Essence of haiku - inspiration & expression", by Mr. Willy F. Vande Walle and the reception party followed.

The 16th HIA Haiku Contest

Sponsored by Haiku International Association
Supported by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Japan Times

Number of submissions

Japanese haiku:
Overseas haiku:

The announcement and comments on the winning haiku

The announcement and the comments on the Overseas haiku were given by Kimura Toshio, a director of HIA

Haiku in Overseas

Judge

Kimura Toshio

Prize Winners - Selected by Kimura Toshio

frost touched hair
future consists
of memories
Dietmar Tauchner (Austria)

wherever he goes...
remnants of Indian summer
and her hair
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (Poland)

Honorable Mentions - Selected by Kimura Toshio

The last leaf
meets its shadow --
silent forest
Dan Iulian (Romania)

cactus shadow
the invisible thorn
of farewell
Kevin Valentine (U.S.A.)

flutters by
without looking back
the first butterfly
Nikola Duretic (Croatia)

leaf after leaf
autumn
into my garden
Gabriel Sawicki (Poland)