Haiku Northwest
@haikunorthwest.bsky.social
Haiku Northwest, founded in 1988 by Francine Porad, is a Seattle-based group that meets most second Thursdays to share and discuss haiku and related forms like senryu, haibun, haiga, tanka, and renku.
https://www.haikunorthwest.org/
https://www.haikunorthwest.org/
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Haiku Northwest
2025 Meetings and Other Events
Check our schedule of upcoming activities, including monthly, quarterly, and special events, plus other haiku-related events in our larger community.
www.haikunorthwest.org
Haiku Northwest, founded in 1988 by Francine Porad, is a Seattle-based group that meets most second Thursdays to share and discuss haiku and related forms like senryu, haibun, haiga, tanka, and renku.
Look to the space for updates and upcoming meeting events.
www.haikunorthwest.org
Look to the space for updates and upcoming meeting events.
www.haikunorthwest.org
Congratulations to this year’s Porad Haiku Award winners! With 115 poets from 12 countries totaling 555 haiku, the grace and exuberance of the haiku community was well represented!
www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-...
www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-...
Haiku Northwest - 2025 Porad Award Winners
The Porad Haiku Award is Haiku Northwest’s annual haiku contest, started in 2004. In 2025 it attracted 555 submissions from numerous countries.
www.haikunorthwest.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Congratulations to this year’s Porad Haiku Award winners! With 115 poets from 12 countries totaling 555 haiku, the grace and exuberance of the haiku community was well represented!
www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-...
www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-...
Join Haiku Northwest at Bellevue College for Japan Week on October 11th!
—Test your Haiku IQ with Haiku Northwest poets
—Get an instant haiku written just for you by Captain Haiku
—Discover Haiku on Sticks displayed across campus
More details below:
studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu/japan-week/?...
—Test your Haiku IQ with Haiku Northwest poets
—Get an instant haiku written just for you by Captain Haiku
—Discover Haiku on Sticks displayed across campus
More details below:
studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu/japan-week/?...
September 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Join Haiku Northwest at Bellevue College for Japan Week on October 11th!
—Test your Haiku IQ with Haiku Northwest poets
—Get an instant haiku written just for you by Captain Haiku
—Discover Haiku on Sticks displayed across campus
More details below:
studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu/japan-week/?...
—Test your Haiku IQ with Haiku Northwest poets
—Get an instant haiku written just for you by Captain Haiku
—Discover Haiku on Sticks displayed across campus
More details below:
studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu/japan-week/?...
Only a day left to submit up to five haiku to the 2025 Haiku Northwest Porad Award!
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August 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Only a day left to submit up to five haiku to the 2025 Haiku Northwest Porad Award!
sites.google.com/site/haikuno...
sites.google.com/site/haikuno...
Our eighteenth annual Haiku Northwest haiku retreat will happen at the end of October 2025! Come experience the Pacific Northwest off the Hood Canal and our featured speaker, Kristen Lindquist.
www.haikunorthwest.org/seabeck-haik...
www.haikunorthwest.org/seabeck-haik...
August 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Our eighteenth annual Haiku Northwest haiku retreat will happen at the end of October 2025! Come experience the Pacific Northwest off the Hood Canal and our featured speaker, Kristen Lindquist.
www.haikunorthwest.org/seabeck-haik...
www.haikunorthwest.org/seabeck-haik...
Sunday’s deadline to submit up to five haiku for the 2025 Porad Award is approaching fast.
www.haikunorthwest.org/2025-events/...
www.haikunorthwest.org/2025-events/...
Haiku Northwest - 2025 Porad Award
Celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the Porad Award in 2025!
www.haikunorthwest.org
August 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Sunday’s deadline to submit up to five haiku for the 2025 Porad Award is approaching fast.
www.haikunorthwest.org/2025-events/...
www.haikunorthwest.org/2025-events/...
Join us August 28th for a reading of Glimmering Hour, Haiku Northwest’s 35th Anniversary Anthology.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Words and Wine, J. Bookwalter Tasting Studio, 14810 NE 145th Street, Suite C, in Woodinville, Washington. Free reading and open mic.
www.haikunorthwest.org/glimmering-h...
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Words and Wine, J. Bookwalter Tasting Studio, 14810 NE 145th Street, Suite C, in Woodinville, Washington. Free reading and open mic.
www.haikunorthwest.org/glimmering-h...
Haiku Northwest - Glimmering Hour
Haiku Northwest 35th Anniversary Anthology
Haiku Northwest celebrates its 35th anniversary with Glimmering Hour, an anthology of 202 haiku and senryu by 79 contributors, including a memorial section f...
www.haikunorthwest.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Join us August 28th for a reading of Glimmering Hour, Haiku Northwest’s 35th Anniversary Anthology.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Words and Wine, J. Bookwalter Tasting Studio, 14810 NE 145th Street, Suite C, in Woodinville, Washington. Free reading and open mic.
www.haikunorthwest.org/glimmering-h...
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Words and Wine, J. Bookwalter Tasting Studio, 14810 NE 145th Street, Suite C, in Woodinville, Washington. Free reading and open mic.
www.haikunorthwest.org/glimmering-h...
Submissions for the 2025 Haiku Northwest Porad Award close out August 31st.
Follow the link for more details in how to submit your haiku:
www.haikunorthwest.org/2025-events/...
Follow the link for more details in how to submit your haiku:
www.haikunorthwest.org/2025-events/...
Haiku Northwest - 2025 Porad Award
Celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the Porad Award in 2025!
www.haikunorthwest.org
August 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Submissions for the 2025 Haiku Northwest Porad Award close out August 31st.
Follow the link for more details in how to submit your haiku:
www.haikunorthwest.org/2025-events/...
Follow the link for more details in how to submit your haiku:
www.haikunorthwest.org/2025-events/...
Haiku Northwest, founded in 1988 by Francine Porad, is a Seattle-based group that meets most second Thursdays to share and discuss haiku and related forms like senryu, haibun, haiga, tanka, and renku.
Look to the space for updates and upcoming meeting events.
www.haikunorthwest.org
Look to the space for updates and upcoming meeting events.
www.haikunorthwest.org
Haiku Northwest
2025 Meetings and Other Events
Check our schedule of upcoming activities, including monthly, quarterly, and special events, plus other haiku-related events in our larger community.
www.haikunorthwest.org
August 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Haiku Northwest, founded in 1988 by Francine Porad, is a Seattle-based group that meets most second Thursdays to share and discuss haiku and related forms like senryu, haibun, haiga, tanka, and renku.
Look to the space for updates and upcoming meeting events.
www.haikunorthwest.org
Look to the space for updates and upcoming meeting events.
www.haikunorthwest.org