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New Writers Hopeful Haiku Competition 2025

17 June 2025
  • Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Tuesday 17th June 2025
  • Entry Fee: FREE
  • Prizes: 1st Place: £50 plus one free entry to the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025, publication on the NewWriters.org.uk website and in the next New Writers Anthology
  • Word Limit: three lines with a total of 17 syllables (excluding title)
  • Theme: Hope
  • Category: Poetry Competitions
  • How to Enter: Send your entry as an attachment (Word doc or Google doc please) to: competitions@newwriters.org.uk with the email subject “Haiku Competition”.

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Our monthly newsletter includes details of upcoming writing competitions (including our current Poetry Competition with a £1,200 top prize!), the deadline for which is one month after that of the the Haiku Competition. The newsletter also includes tips and prompts and other news or offers we think might be of interest to writers. Note that we don’t share subscribers’ information with anyone else.

Your hope-themed entry should adhere (at least roughly) to the rules of haiku poetry. Please give your entry a title that isn’t ‘Hope’ (as that would complicate the anonymous judging process!).

Entry to this free competition assumes you accept the following terms and conditions:

  1. Entries must be the sole work of the entrant and no AI or similar software may have been used to write it.
  2. Entries must be unpublished, either in print or online (including social media).
  3. Entrants must be aged 16 years or older at the time of entry.
  4. Entrants must be signed up to the New Writers Newsletter (also free). If you haven’t signed up yet you can do so using THIS LINK.
  5. Entries must be related to the theme of ‘Hope’ – though you can interpret that as loosely as you like.
  6. The winner of competition will be paid a £50 prize and will receive one free entry to the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025 (worth £10, deadline 17th July 2025).
  7. Results of the competition will be published in the NewWriters.org.uk newsletter in January 2025 and the winning entry will be published on the website soon after and in the next New Writers Anthology.
  8. Entries should be sent as email attachments (Word doc or Google doc please) to competitions@newwriters.org.uk with the email subject “Haiku Competition”.

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