Well, for the purposes of this blog I am juliana but I submitted my work under my given name.
I wrote my first haiku-like poems at the beginning of 2005 and a friend who actually prompted me to start writing suggested I sent them to the president of the Haiku Club of Slovenia. She showed interest in my work and with her help I sent in a few haiku for the next issue of Letni časi/The Seasons (the magazine of said society). The issue was in print but a few samples were posted bilingually on line :
http://www.tempslibres.org/
http://www.tempslibres.org/
Having seen the issue, a Japanese artist Kuniharu Shimizu showed interest in my haiku and wanted to make haiga from four of them. Unfortunately, the website where those haiga were published no longer exists.
Later that year I discovered World Haiku Club and its publication World Haiku Review. A few of my very first submitted haiku were published and even commended in the Autumn 2005 issue. The links to the archives worked a few months ago but are not working at present.
That summer (2005) I also submitted some haiku to a few contests in Japan and to my utter surprise I received a notification towards the end of the year that I was awarded second prize by one of the judges.
Winners 10th Kusamakura Haiku Competition
In the following years I appeared in a few on-line publications:
http://www.themetpress.com/
http://du5tin.net/haiku/oblak.
http://simplyhaiku.com/SHv5n1/
And in December 2006 my entries came second and first in the Shiki Monthly Kukai and the winning haiku was also selected for the annual Red Moon Press Anthology
Afterwards I was beginning to feel there's little new for me to say so, apart from occasional entries in the Kukai, I quit submitting my work. Perhaps I should renew my ambition and try to get into, say, The Heron's Nest.
3 comments:
Mahalo big time for this. Of course I'm going to go over this on my day off this Fri/ Sat. Mahalo my friend :) MWAH!!!
I just went through this now. How incredible. Thank you for sharing!
You and Amoeba both call your mothers Mum. I like that you had to explain Haiku to her.
I also liked the wheat filed/ windshield rainbow allusion.
thom - you're welcome, and take your time if and whenever you feel like it. my achievements may be no mean feat but i don't feel like bragging about them
quilly - wow, you took your time!
well, i don't exactly call my mother mum although it doesn't sound all that different in slovenian ;)
and yes, she was proud when i brought her an issue of The Seasons and we actually did discuss some haiku while a shower came and went outside of the cafe
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