What can you say in seventeen syllables or less?
Paperboats is excited to announce the launch of our Haiku Competition. We are inviting writers of all ages to submit their haiku to be in with the chance to win a cash prize and be published in a special Paperboats Zine issue dedicated to the traditional Japanese poem.
The haiku — consisting of three lines containing, respectively, five, seven and five syllables — can be in English, Scots or Gaelic and take the themes of rewilding or a future free of fossil fuels as inspiration.
The December 2024 issue of the Paperboats Zine will be dedicated to haiku on these two themes. Find out more about these campaigns here.
The competition is open to writers over and under 16, and the best haiku in each of the four categories will win a £100 prize. Highly commended entries will be published in the online December edition of the Paperboats Zine. They will also receive a Paperboats badge handmade by Glasgow artist David McDiarmid, based on an original design by George Wylie. The chief judge of the competition is award-winning novelist, poet and haiku aficionado, Kevin MacNeil.
You are invited to submit your haiku! – for more information and how to enter see the website here
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