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
Tag: Literature
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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:
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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
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I’m happy to have placed this monoku in the latest issue of Whiptail:
redshift cancelling the ultrasound
Here’s the complete issue:
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I’m truly proud and honored to have my poem “Being Alive” published by Deep South Magazine! It’s one of the best free-verse poems I’ve written to date, and I’m glad it found such a worthy home!
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I’m honored to have my poem “Nostalgia is a Shovel” featured in Deep South Magazine. Check it out!
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It’s a joy and an honor to featured in the Golden Triangle Haiku Awards! They put winning haiku on signs in Washington DC.
Here’s the complete list of awarded poems:
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I’m happy to have received an Honorable Mention in the Rachel Sutcliffe Haibun Contest. Much love to Drifting Sands for keeping Rachel Sutcliffe’s memory alive!
Here’s the haibun, titled OCDY:
Here’s Issue 31 of Drifting Sands, which contains all of the winning poems:
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33,941 entries. One Grand Prize. The joy of winning this contest defied comprehension!
https://itoen-shinhaiku.jp/en/archive/33/
looking for girl names
we pick
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A huge thank you to Tree Rivers for hosting the Little Iris Haiku Contest! Back in 2022, I got the grand prize for this haiku on the theme of crude oil!
pumpjack moon
the flow
of midnight
Edward Cody Huddleston 