The Seventh Annual
ukiaHaiku Festival

An afternoon devoted to the Haiku form of poetry

Sunday, April 26, 2009
2 pm to 4 pm at the Ukiah Valley Conference Center
200 S. School Street in Ukiah, California

Keynote speaker: Theresa Whitehill

Information on submitting your work to the festival competition.

Winning poems will be published in the ukiaHaiku festival book, and all winners will receive a copy of the book and a prize. In the Contemporary Haiku Adult category, prizes are: $100, $50, $25 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, respectively. For other categories, winners receive a modest, non-monetary prize.

Use the links below for more Information about the ukiaHaiku Festival. You may also download the poster for the Festival to hang, or forward to someone else. Read through the winning Haiku of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 as well. The necessary forms are also available as pdf documents that you can download.

Festival Sponsors: OCO TIme, Leaves of Grass Bookstore, Tenacity Press & Susan Sparrow, Mendocino Book Company, Mulligan Books, Catfish Books, Nine Trees Design, Ukiah Folding Organization, Gallery Bookstore and Bookwinkle’s Childrens Books.

The 7th Annual Festival is produced by The Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, Grace Hudson Museum, Writers Read, City of Ukiah, Ukiah Branch Library and Marianchild Writing & Publicity.

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