Welcome to Haiku Canada

The Betty Drevniok Award

Haiku Canada established this annual competition in memory of Betty Drevniok, past president of the society.

Submission Guidelines for The Betty Drevniok Award

The contest is open to everyone, including regional coordinators of Haiku Canada, except for the members of the executive of Haiku Canada

The submitted haiku must be unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere

A flat fee of $5 Cdn (in Canada) or $5 US (for entries outside Canada) for up to 3 haiku is payable to “Haiku Canada”

Submit 2 copies of each haiku, each copy typed or neatly printed on a 3X5 card; one card in each set must include the author’s name, address and telephone number in the upper corner, while the other card with the identical poem must contain no identifying marks

Postmark deadline: February 14, 2013.

The winners will be announced at the Annual General Meeting in May 2013

First Prize $100; Second Prize $50; Third Prize $25

The top eleven poems will be published in a Haiku Canada Sheets and distributed with the Haiku Canada Anthology

No entries will be returned; if you are NOT a member of Haiku Canada and wish a copy of the broadsheet with the winning haiku, include a SASE (business size, Canadian stamps) or a SAE and $2 for postage and handling

Send entries to

The Betty Drevniok Award
c/o Claudia Coutu Radmore
49 McArthur Avenue
Carleton Place, Ontario
Canada K7C 2W1



In Memoriam

only embers remain...
clouds
drift across the full moon

~Betty Drevniok~

L’araignée à sa toile—
De jour en jour, je tisse
des souvenirs d’été.

~Jocelyne Villeneuve~

end of the season
upwind on cold sand
a gull struts

~M. Bluger~
from "Silenced Spring",
1991 Haiku Canada
Members' Anthology


Contact Haiku Canada: