Haiku

Haiku Registry listing.

Contests

• Honorable Mention and four Haiku of Merit, World Haiku Review No. 1, Aug. 2010.
• Honorable Mention, Haiku North America 2011 Conference Kukai, Aug. 2011.
• First place, Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge: Hay(na)ku, Aug. 2011.
• Sakura Award, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2011.
• Third Prize, 16th International “Kusamakura” Haiku Competition, Sept. 2011.
• First Prize, 2011 Porad Award, Oct. 2011.
• Honorable Mention, 13th HIA Haiku Contest, Dec. 2011.
• First place, Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge: Haiku, Dec. 2011.
•  Third Place, 2011 Thom Williams Memorial contest, Dec. 2011.
• Honorable Mention, 15th Mainichi Haiku Contest, Jan. 2012.
• First Prize (Contemporary Category), 2012 HaikuNow! Contest, Apr. 2012.
• Two Honorable Mentions, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2012 .
• Honorable Mention, 2012 Porad Award, Oct. 2012.
• Honorable Mention, 16th Mainichi Haiku Contest, Jan. 2013.

Anthologies

• Standing Still: The Haiku North America Conference anthology,  Aug. 2011.
• in pine shade: Haiku Society of America 2011 Members’ Anthology, Winter 2012.
• Windfall: Seabeck Haiku Getaway anthology, Oct. 2012.
• nothing in the window: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2012, edited by Jim Kacian & the Red Moon Editorial Staff.

Kukai Contests

• First place: Caribbean Kigo Kukai #13 (May 2010), Shiki Kukai (Jul. 2010), Caribbean Kigo Kukai #17 (Sept. 2010), Shiki Kukai (Nov. 2010), Sketchbook Kukai (Nov/Dec 2010), Sketchbook Kukai (May/Jun 2011), Sketchbook Kukai (Sept/Oct 2011), Caribbean Kigo Kukai #36 (July 2012), Caribbean Kigo Kukai #40 (Mar. 2013).

• Second place: Sketchbook Kukai (Jul/Aug 2010), Caribbean Kigo Kukai #16 (Aug. 2010), Caribbean Kigo Kukai #18 (Oct. 2010), Shiki Kukai (Jan. 2011), Shiki Kukai (Jun. 2011),  Shiki Kukai (Feb. 2012), Caribbean Kigo Kukai #38 (Jul. 2012), Sketchbook Kukai (Jul/Aug 2012), Shiki Kukai (Dec. 2012).

• Third place: Sketchbook Kukai (May/Jun 2010), Shiki Kukai 8^th Annual Poets’ Choice Kukai (Oct. 2010), Caribbean Kigo Kukai #32 (Mar. 2012), Shiki Kukai 10^th Annual Poets’ Choice Kukai  (Oct. 2012), Seabeck Haiku Northwest Retreat Kukai (Oct. 2012), Shiki Kukai (Nov. 2012).

Journals

• Sketchbook: Issues 29-42
• Riverwind: Issue 30
• Frogpond: Volumes 34 – 35
•  Notes from the Gean: Volumes 3 – 4
• The Heron’s Nest: Volumes 13 – 15
• A Hundred Gourds: Volumes 1 – 2
• Mariposa:  Issues 25 – 28.
• Prune Juice: Issues 7 – 9.
• 2012 THF Haiku App
• DailyHaiku Cycle 13
• Modern Haiku: Volumes 43 – 44
• Multiverses: Issue 1
• tinywords:  Issues 12.1 – 13.1
• Acorn: Issue 29 – 30.

E-Anthologies

• Dragonfly Dreams, edited by Melissa Allen, Aug. 2011.
• Tea with Trolls, edited by Aubrie Cox, Oct. 2011.
• Day of the Dead, edited by Margaret Dornaus, Nov. 2011.
• The Language of Dragons, edited by Aubrie Cox, Jan. 2012.
• fox dreams, edited by Aubrie Cox. Apr. 2012.
• The Zen Space Summer 2012 Showcase, edited by Marie Marshall.
• Winged Moon, edited by Aubrie Cox, Jun. 2012.
• Things With Wings, edited by Aubrie Cox, Jun. 2012.
• Sea Bandits, edited by Aubrie Cox, Sept. 2012.
• Day of the Dead III, edited by Margaret Dornaus, Oct. 2012.
• With Cherries on Top: 31 Flavors from NaHaiWriMo, edited by Michael Dylan Welch, Nov. 2012.
• Fool’s Paradise, edited by Aubrie Cox, Dec. 2012.

Guest Posts/ Interviews

• “Guest Post: Why Kukai?”, Swimming in Lines of Haiku, Nov. 2010.
• “Write On! Review – Haiku On!”, Write On! Online, Apr. 2011.
• “Poets in the Garden”, Red Dragonfly, Aug. 2011.
• “National Poetry Month: Guest Post #3, Cara Holman”, Haiku-doodle , Apr. 2012.
• “Cara Holman”,  feathers,  Apr. 2012.
• “Featured ‘Couplets’ Poet: Cara Holman”, A wish for the sky, Apr. 2012.
• “Cara Holman”,  feathers,  Apr. 2012.
• “August Blog Bash, Day 15 – Cara Holman”,  Origami Lotus Poetry, Aug. 2012.
• “Friday Surprise: we connect with Cara Holman”, In Our Books, Sept. 2012.

Other

• Guest prompter, May 2011, NaHaiWriMo.
• Guest prompter, August 25, 2012, NaHaiWriMo.
• One of my haiku was selected to appear in the group exhibit “Haiku for Hope” , an art exhibition raising funds for Howard County General Hospital’s Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center.

Conferences Attended

• Haiku Society of America National Quarterly Meeting/Bend Haiku Weekend, June 3-5, 2011 Bend, Oregon.
• Haiku North America Conference, August 3-7, 2011, Seattle, Washington.
• Seabeck Haiku Northwest Retreat, October 13-16, 2011, Seabeck, Washington.
• Seabeck Haiku Northwest Retreat presenter, October 11-14, 2012, Seabeck, Washington.