Full Bloom Renga from The Orchard Network

Full Bloom Festival
Date: April 16th – May 8th 2010

Location: online web renga

Visit the specially created Web renga website to take part on the online Full Bloom Renga. Each day a theme will be posted on line and a poet selects the verse that evening from an open submission process. You can contribute any number of verses any day. The three poets selecting for the web renga are Alec Finlay, Martin Lucas and Sheila Windsor.

International Haiku Spring Festival 2010
Akita, Northern Honshu, Japan

Date: May 12th – 23rd 2010
Location: online festival of sharing poetry

From the web page:

In celebration of the 1st anniversary of the opening of our network, we hold International Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (Akita, Northern Honshu, Japan). This festival is presented in Partnership with 2010 Bath Japanese Festival.

Let’s share haiku! Let’s share haibun!

Let’s share senryu! Let’s share tanka!

What is it?

It is an online festival designed to give our readers an opportunity to share the Japanese short forms of poetry with each other, and enjoy writing and reading haiku, senryu, or tanka.

When is it?

We are happy to announce that the Festival with run from May 12th – 23rd 2010.

Where is it?

On the website of Akita International Haiku Network

How do I get involved?

Please leave a comment on the Akita site, saying that you would like to participate. You will receive an e-mail from Hidenori Hiruta with his e-mail address.

Visit the festival page for more information.

The Haiku Foundation Calendars

These fantastic resources from The Haiku Foundation list contests, events, and submission calls. The calendars were last updated on April 15, 2010. Calendars are available as HTML or PDF.

For the calendars and to make additions and corrections, please visit The Haiku Foundation’s Calendars Page.

North Carolina Haiku Society’s 31st annual Haiku Holiday

Date: Sunday, April 24, 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina [map]

From the event site:

Come celebrate the 31st annual Haiku Holiday with the North Carolina Haiku Society on Saturday, April 24, 2010. Experienced haiku teachers and poets will conduct workshops, talks and walks. The event is open to anyone with an interest in haiku, beginner or advanced.

Our first Haiku Holiday took place at Bolin Brook Farm near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the United States of America on January 26, 1980. Since then, all of our annual meetings have been held at Bolin Brook Farm—thanks to our gracious host and member since the beginning, Jean Earnhardt. Our Galleries section has a few pictures from past Haiku Holidays.

If you are going to participate in a workshop, bring previously written, unpublished haiku—or you can dash one off after the ginko (haiku walk). Membership in the North Carolina Haiku Society is encouraged but not required. There is no membership or registration fee, but small donations will be gratefully accepted at the workshop.

Please bring a bag lunch.

The main contact for this meeting is Dave Russo.

Presenters include Roberta Beary, Lenard D. Moore, Robert Moyer, and Dave Russo.

The host is Jean Earnhardt at Bolin Brook Farm [map]

For more details, including the schedule and contact information, please visit the event site.