Many thanks to all the participants. We were very impressed by the genuine feeling of all the haiku submitted. Here are our favorites and the reasoning behind our decisions. LILY sea brings back to shore boy bloated like closed lily life never unfurled by Samuel Son Samuel’s poem made us think of regugee children recently […]

We had so many great entries, it’s really challenging to narrow them down, so we’ve started by selecting a group of our favorites. We’ll choose the final winners from this group. You have not made this easy on us at all. But here are the first round selection. You will notice that a few of […]

A couple of weeks ago we decided to hold a contest in which people wrote haikus (typically poems of three lines, 17 syllables in three lines of 5, 7, and 5) about what’s going on in the world today. We were overwhelmed at the response and decided that we should post the submissions before we […]

Writers are usually paid by the word, but what if a brief was to write just syllables? In today’s time demanding world, maybe that’s just what we need, eh? So for this contest, we ask you to write a haiku about the state of the world or any aspect of it. What’s a Haiku Again? […]

UPDATE: And the winner is… Mike Maguire. Mike will receive a paperback copy of Cthulhu Lies Dreaming and some coffee from the Coffee Shop of Horrors. Be sure and enter next time for your chance to win.   Several months ago, we did our first coffee and a book giveaway. The winner, Ralph Pullins, submitted […]