It’s with tremendous joy that I announce that I have won the Grand Prize in the 5th Annual Haiku Crush Contest! Also of note: I’m now the first person to ever have three poems awarded in a single Haiku Crush contest!
Here are my winning poems:
after the breeze
the cocoon
still trembling
graveside service
the wind shifts
to past tense
morning dew
counting the suns
on a sunflower
The book of the contest is chock-full of more excellent haiku! Snag your copy here!
sidewalk cracks a smile for the daisies
—First Place/Editor’s Choice, World Haiku Review
Tremendous thanks to the legendary Susumu Takiguchi for selecting my haiku for these honors!
Wow! Thanks to the judges of the Henderson Awards, Brady Awards, and Haibun Awards, and thank you to the wonderful officers of the Haiku Society of America!
Roberta Beach Jacobson has published three of my recent pieces in her lovely new journal, smols:
sparks flying into stars
where the trail ends wildflowers
space
between
neurons
https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/sparks-flying-into-stars-edward-cody.html
I’m happy to be one of the haiku poets awarded a Best of Issue Award in the final edition of Presence released under Ian Storr!
crescent moon
the curve of the fawn
in the doe
—Best of Issue Award, Presence 81
I’m quite grateful to have a haiku “Highly Commended” in the Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition!
Read all the winners here: https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2025results
Thanks to Sarah Kelderman at Exquisite Death for publishing my short story, “The Horrors Beyond Mortal Comprehension of Painting.”
The piece is inspired by my two favorite painters, Bob Ross and Zdzisław Beksiński!
Read the story here:
I am honored to have received First Place in the Bloodroot Haiku Awards for this poem:
Mom’s trowel
the dinosaur bones
we never found
I’m happy to have placed this monoku in the latest issue of Whiptail:
redshift cancelling the ultrasound
Here’s the complete issue:
Edward Cody Huddleston 