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)