The editor staff will be taking time off from August 1st to 31st.
Please hold any new submissions after July 31st until September 1st to submit.
Any submissions that are received in August will be held until after September 1st. So try to send them in these last three weeks of July if you wish a prompt reply.
Thank you for your continued support. It's been a difficult year with personal and family related issues and a little time off is much needed.
Tony A. Thompson
Managing Editor
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Summer Chapbook Contest Update
The winner of the Summer Chapbook contest is Chad Lee Robinson with his manuscript " Pop Bottles". The chapbook details will be announced soon with the book available in July.
Judges Panel: an'ya of moonset newspaper, Gary Hotham & Tony A. Thompson of True Vine Press.
Finalists were:
Darrell Lindsey - "Summer Sketch Pad"
Michael McClintock - "Cold from the Well"
Elliot Nicely - " The Last Dandelion"
Sandra Simpson - "waiting for the rains"
Judges Panel: an'ya of moonset newspaper, Gary Hotham & Tony A. Thompson of True Vine Press.
Finalists were:
Darrell Lindsey - "Summer Sketch Pad"
Michael McClintock - "Cold from the Well"
Elliot Nicely - " The Last Dandelion"
Sandra Simpson - "waiting for the rains"
Friday, May 22, 2009
Pinewood Haiku Contest Winners
The winners of the 2009 Pinewood Haiku Contest are:
1st: Francine Banwarth
2nd: Tanya McDonald
3rd: Darrell Lindsey
The judge was Scott Mason. Winning poems are in the current April 2009 issue. Individual copies of the issue are available for $3.00 each.
1st: Francine Banwarth
2nd: Tanya McDonald
3rd: Darrell Lindsey
The judge was Scott Mason. Winning poems are in the current April 2009 issue. Individual copies of the issue are available for $3.00 each.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Submission & Subscription Information
Submissions: Updated 06-09-2008
Postal Mail Guidelines:
Please send 5-7 haiku, senryu, tanka or combination of the three forms on a typed, or (Word document), sheet with your name, address, email in the upper right corner of the manuscript. S.A.S.E or IRC required for notification. We have an open submission policy with no deadlines or themed issues.
We accept first publishing rights and rights revert back to author upon publication. No previously published or simultaneous submissions accepted. Average notification time is 2 weeks after receipt.
Payment: Each postal mail contributor receives a maximum honorarium of $1.00. There is no payment for e-mail contributors. We no longer offer contributor copies due to cost increases in the production of the journal; (postal rates, paper,supplies)
Query: Any questions may be emailed to: wisteriajournal @ (nospam) gmail.com. Please put Wisteria in the reference line.
Postal Mail Guidelines:
Please send 5-7 haiku, senryu, tanka or combination of the three forms on a typed, or (Word document), sheet with your name, address, email in the upper right corner of the manuscript. S.A.S.E or IRC required for notification. We have an open submission policy with no deadlines or themed issues.
We accept first publishing rights and rights revert back to author upon publication. No previously published or simultaneous submissions accepted. Average notification time is 2 weeks after receipt.
Payment: Each postal mail contributor receives a maximum honorarium of $1.00. There is no payment for e-mail contributors. We no longer offer contributor copies due to cost increases in the production of the journal; (postal rates, paper,supplies)
Query: Any questions may be emailed to: wisteriajournal @ (nospam) gmail.com. Please put Wisteria in the reference line.
Wisteria
P.O. Box 150932
Lufkin, Texas 75915
E-Mail Submissions:
Email submitters follow the same guidelines as above. Please email submissions with "Wisteria Submission" in the subject line and the poems in the body of the email to:
Remember to take out the nospam and no attachments.
Subscription: 4 issues
U.S.A.= $ 3.00 per issue or $ 10.00 for one year.
Canada/International= $5.00 per issue or $ 18.00 for one year.
U.S. Subscribers: We accept cash, money order,personal check or Pay Pal from U.S.A.resident addresses on United States banks only. If sending a money order, we prefer United States Postal Service money orders.
Canada/International= cash or Pay Pal only! We are unable to accept checks and money orders even if they are on a U.S. bank due to policies at our local financial institutions that we have no control over.
Please make checks and money orders payable to T.A. Thompson.
06/09/2008: Added Pay Pal "Buy Now" buttons for ordering or renewing one year subscriptions.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Assistant Editor for Wisteria
I am happy to announce Gary Hotham has joined the Editor Staff for Wisteria.
He will be reading your email submissions and selecting poems for future issues. Below is a bio of Gary:
Gary Hotham has recently gone over the 40 year mark of writing haiku. He goes back to the "dark days" before such magazines as Modern Haiku and the haiku anthologies edited by Cor van den Heuvel. He continues to appear here and there in various magazines. His most recent chapbook, ODOR OF RAIN, appeared in 2004 from Juniper Press and a Modest Proposal chapbook, MISSED APPOINTMENT, from the Lilliput Review Press, recently won an award from the Haiku Soceity of America. He had a big collection of his haiku in BREATH MARKS: Haiku to Read in the Dark (Canon Press) appear in 1999. He is again living & working outside the USA. This time in Germany.
and also
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/writerprofiles/GaryHotham.html
He will be reading your email submissions and selecting poems for future issues. Below is a bio of Gary:
Gary Hotham has recently gone over the 40 year mark of writing haiku. He goes back to the "dark days" before such magazines as Modern Haiku and the haiku anthologies edited by Cor van den Heuvel. He continues to appear here and there in various magazines. His most recent chapbook, ODOR OF RAIN, appeared in 2004 from Juniper Press and a Modest Proposal chapbook, MISSED APPOINTMENT, from the Lilliput Review Press, recently won an award from the Haiku Soceity of America. He had a big collection of his haiku in BREATH MARKS: Haiku to Read in the Dark (Canon Press) appear in 1999. He is again living & working outside the USA. This time in Germany.
and also
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/writerprofiles/GaryHotham.html
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Wisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka

Wisteria is a print journal dedicated to publishing original, English-language, or contemporary haiku, senryu, and tanka.
The journal started in 2006 and will be published quarterly ( January, April, July & October) . It will be a small sized (4 1/4 x 5 1/2), desktop published, saddle-stapled, card stock cover magazine.
Staff:
Tony A. Thompson, Publisher & Managing Editor
Gary Hotham, Editor
The journal started in 2006 and will be published quarterly ( January, April, July & October) . It will be a small sized (4 1/4 x 5 1/2), desktop published, saddle-stapled, card stock cover magazine.
Staff:
Tony A. Thompson, Publisher & Managing Editor
Gary Hotham, Editor
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