Contests & Awards — 2025
The Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards for 2025
- Maximum number of haiku allowed: two (2) haiku in English
- Judging criteria: Selection will be blind to authorship and the sole criterion will be excellence
- Judge: to be identified with the winners
- Entry fee: none
- Eligibility: all haiku poets other than the staff of The Heron's Nest and the contest judge
- Awards:
First Place - $200, a copy of Red Leaves: Selected Haiku of Peggy Lyles and a miniature crystal turtle
Second Place - $100 and a copy of Red Leaves: Selected Haiku of Peggy Lyles
Third Place - $50 and a copy of Red Leaves: Selected Haiku of Peggy Lyles
Honorable Mention (up to five recipients) - award certificates and recognition on our "Awards" page and in our annual print edition.
(NOTE: monetary awards to non-US winners will be made through PayPal, where possible, in order to avoid the high cost of bank processing fees. )
- Deadline for entries: June 1, 2025
- How to enter: By email to John Stevenson at ithacan@earthlink.net (put "Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards" in the subject line; provide haiku in the body of the email only-attachments will not be opened. Include your name and your location as you would like to see each listed.)
The submitted poems must not have been published; not accepted for publication; not under consideration by anyone other than us until we announce the contest results.
