The Solitary Daisy 🌼
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A fortnightly journal of haiku. Co-editors Sally Quon and Michele Rule. thesolitarydaisy.ca
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Issue 64 – Music Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
What a joy to receive all of your musical haiku! Sally and I spent quite a bit of time listening to all the music that inspired you. I have a whole new playlist now!
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Listen to the music in these outstanding haiku! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/11/issu... #haiku #haikusubmissions
Listen to the music in these outstanding haiku! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/11/issu... #haiku #haikusubmissions
Issue 64 – Music Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
What a joy to receive all of your musical haiku! Sally and I spent quite a bit of time listening to all the music that inspired you. I have a whole new playlist now!
thesolitarydaisy.ca
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Listen to the music in these outstanding haiku! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/11/issu... #haiku #haikusubmissions
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Nominate your favorite litmags of 2025!
Of course we hope that’s us but we’re cheering on our friends!
Of course we hope that’s us but we’re cheering on our friends!
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Nominate your favorite litmags of 2025!
Of course we hope that’s us but we’re cheering on our friends!
Of course we hope that’s us but we’re cheering on our friends!
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General Submissions remain closed but we're reopening Pebbles vol. 6 subs till November 30. Send us up to 10 poems, each no more than 5 lines, and/or visuals (haiga, etc.).
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
General Submissions remain closed but we're reopening Pebbles vol. 6 subs till November 30. Send us up to 10 poems, each no more than 5 lines, and/or visuals (haiga, etc.).
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Good morning from wintery Canada! Enjoy our latest issue with our selection of winter haiku! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/11/issu... #haiku
Issue 63 – Winter Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
For our upcoming issue, we want to challenge you to write a haiku or two inspired by music.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Good morning from wintery Canada! Enjoy our latest issue with our selection of winter haiku! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/11/issu... #haiku
Happy Friday! You still have until Wednesday, November 12 to send us a haiku or two! This issue's theme is winter, but don't use the word winter! thesolitarydaisy.ca/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines - The Solitary Daisy
The Solitary Daisy Journal runs on a fortnightly schedule (every two weeks). In each issue there is a prompt. Haiku written to the prompt will be considered
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November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Happy Friday! You still have until Wednesday, November 12 to send us a haiku or two! This issue's theme is winter, but don't use the word winter! thesolitarydaisy.ca/submission-g...
Thanks for all the spookiness! Today's issue of the Solitary Daisy is now available. Please share widely! #haiku #haikusubmissions
Issue 62 – Spooky Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
Wow, your spooky haiku were so awesome!! Such a great variety of eerie ideas. Had our spines tingling!
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November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Thanks for all the spookiness! Today's issue of the Solitary Daisy is now available. Please share widely! #haiku #haikusubmissions
It's a dreary day here - perfect for writing spooky haiku! Send us your submissions on the theme of spooky by October 29. Details here: thesolitarydaisy.ca/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines - The Solitary Daisy
The Solitary Daisy Journal runs on a fortnightly schedule (every two weeks). In each issue there is a prompt. Haiku written to the prompt will be considered
thesolitarydaisy.ca
October 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's a dreary day here - perfect for writing spooky haiku! Send us your submissions on the theme of spooky by October 29. Details here: thesolitarydaisy.ca/submission-g...
Some spooky haiku are showing up in our inbox! Send us yours by October 29th! #haiku #haikusubmissions
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Some spooky haiku are showing up in our inbox! Send us yours by October 29th! #haiku #haikusubmissions
Issue 60 is out! Haiku full of moose and beavers - we love it! Enjoy!
Issue 60 – Moose & Beaver 🫎🦫 - The Solitary Daisy
Last weekend Sally and I attended the Wine Country Writers Festival in Penticton, BC.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Issue 60 is out! Haiku full of moose and beavers - we love it! Enjoy!
Phew! Doing our best here to catch up! Enjoy this hilarious issue of the Solitary Daisy! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/09/issu...
Issue 59 – Funny Senryu - The Solitary Daisy
I love these cooler days and even cooler nights, when all the tourists have gone home and the beaches are empty.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Phew! Doing our best here to catch up! Enjoy this hilarious issue of the Solitary Daisy! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/09/issu...
Send us your funniest haiku or senryu by September 17th for inclusion in our next issue! Submission details here:
Submission Guidelines - The Solitary Daisy
The Solitary Daisy Journal runs on a fortnightly schedule (every two weeks). In each issue there is a prompt. Haiku written to the prompt will be considered
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September 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Send us your funniest haiku or senryu by September 17th for inclusion in our next issue! Submission details here:
Finally, here is our Newcomers issue with a shortened version of material because Sally and I are both still recuperating from our big adventures! Enjoy!
Issue 58 – Newcomer Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
Haiku sounds like I’m Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.
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September 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Finally, here is our Newcomers issue with a shortened version of material because Sally and I are both still recuperating from our big adventures! Enjoy!
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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...
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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...
Still on vacation! Two more weeks until the next issue. Check out these moose that we saw in the Barkerville area!
August 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Still on vacation! Two more weeks until the next issue. Check out these moose that we saw in the Barkerville area!
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#haikuchallenge
Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 8/15-8/17 2025
8/15-January
8/16-Jaybird
8/17-Jewel
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#haikuchallenge
Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 8/15-8/17 2025
8/15-January
8/16-Jaybird
8/17-Jewel
Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.
#haikuchallenge
August 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#haikuchallenge
Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 8/15-8/17 2025
8/15-January
8/16-Jaybird
8/17-Jewel
Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.
#haikuchallenge
Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 8/15-8/17 2025
8/15-January
8/16-Jaybird
8/17-Jewel
Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.
#haikuchallenge
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Our Haiku Prompts for August 9-16
Feel free to use any form of the word or ignore it completely.
Thanks to all of you for playing along at home.
North South
08/09 Dance Plow
08/10 Moon Last Snow
08/11 Grin Yellow
08/12 Sand Piper Skylark
08/13 Quail Carrot
08/14 Soaked Flurry
08/15 Joy Kite […]
Feel free to use any form of the word or ignore it completely.
Thanks to all of you for playing along at home.
North South
08/09 Dance Plow
08/10 Moon Last Snow
08/11 Grin Yellow
08/12 Sand Piper Skylark
08/13 Quail Carrot
08/14 Soaked Flurry
08/15 Joy Kite […]
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August 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Our Haiku Prompts for August 9-16
Feel free to use any form of the word or ignore it completely.
Thanks to all of you for playing along at home.
North South
08/09 Dance Plow
08/10 Moon Last Snow
08/11 Grin Yellow
08/12 Sand Piper Skylark
08/13 Quail Carrot
08/14 Soaked Flurry
08/15 Joy Kite […]
Feel free to use any form of the word or ignore it completely.
Thanks to all of you for playing along at home.
North South
08/09 Dance Plow
08/10 Moon Last Snow
08/11 Grin Yellow
08/12 Sand Piper Skylark
08/13 Quail Carrot
08/14 Soaked Flurry
08/15 Joy Kite […]
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We are delighted to invite haiku #writers from around the world to take part in the Wales Haiku Journal 2025 Summer Competition. We welcome you to join us in celebrating the season, wherever you are, through the meditative form of #haiku.
www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...
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SUMMER COMPETITION 2025 | home
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June 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We are delighted to invite haiku #writers from around the world to take part in the Wales Haiku Journal 2025 Summer Competition. We welcome you to join us in celebrating the season, wherever you are, through the meditative form of #haiku.
www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...
www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Have you missed a previous issue? Catch up here! #haiku #haikujournal
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August 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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August 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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