Haiku Society of America

Agnes Eva Savich and Bill Cooper , judges

HAIKU BOOK AWARDS:

First Place

John Stevenson, My Red: Selected Haiku of John Stevenson, Brooks Books, 2021.

(Commentary from the judges will be posted on the web site in conjunction with publication in Frogpond journal.)

Second Place

Edward Cody Huddleston, Wildflowers in a Vase, Red Moon Press, 2021.

Third Place

Tia Haynes and Jonathan Roman, After Amen: A Memoir in Two Voices, Published by the authors, 2021.

Honorable Mentions (not ranked but in alphabetical order by author)

Rebecca Lilly, Aporia, Red Moon Press, 2021.

John Martone, A Landscape in Pieces, Tufo, 2021.

Bill Pauly, Walking Uneven Ground: Selected Haiku of Bill Pauly, Brooks Books, 2021.

Michele Root-Bernstein, Wind Rose, Snapshot Press, 2021.

~ ~ ~

HAIGA BOOK AWARDS:

Best

Jim Kacian, Terry Ann Carter, Claudia Brefeld, The Engdangered C, Red Moon Press, 2021.

Honorable Mention

Annette Makino, Water and Stone: Ten Years of Art and Haiku, Makino Studios, 2021.

~ ~ ~

HAIBUN BOOK AWARDS:

Best

Sean O’Connor, Fragmentation, Alba Publishing, 2021.

Honorable Mentions

Rich Youmans, Ron Moss, Ludmilla Balabanova, Tish Davis, Terri L. French, Peter Newton, Bryan Rickert, and Harriot West, editors, Contemporary Haibun Volume 16, Red Moon Press, 2021.

Margaret Chula, Firefly Lanterns: Twelve Years in Kyoto. Shanti Arts Publishing, 2021.

~ ~ ~

HAIKU ANTHOLOGY AWARDS:

Best

Jacqueline Pearce, editor, Last Train Home. Pondhawk Press, 2021.

Honorable Mentions

Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Press editorial staff, Jar of Rain: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2020, Red Moon Press, 2021.

Jim Kacian and Julie Warther, A New Resonance 12: Emerging Voices in English- Language Haiku, Red Moon Press, 2021.

~ ~ ~

ESSAYS/PROSE BOOK AWARDS:

H.F. Noyes, Favorite Haiku and Other Collected Essays, Red Moon Press, 2021.

~ ~ ~

 

About our 2022 judges:

Agnes Eva Savich is a university program coordinator, oboist, and haiku poet. Her work has appeared in major journals since 2004, placed in contests in the U.S.A., Canada, England, and Japan, and been anthologized in several collections. Among her other activities, she founded (2019) and still leads the Austin Texas Haiku Group; served as judge of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Contest (2020); edited the Haiku Society of America Southwest Region 2021 members’ anthology; and prepared the Memorial Presentation for Haiku North America 2021. She has resided in Poland, France, and Chicago, and currently lives in Pflugerville, near Austin, Texas.

Bill Cooper is an academic who began writing haiku in 2009. He publishes in leading haiku journals,  has published nine haiku collections, and served for five years as one of the founding editors of Juxtapositions: A Journal of Research and Scholarship in Haiku. Two of his books were shortlisted for the Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards and one received an Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards. His latest book, Rounded by the Sea, was published by Red Moon Press.

~ ~ ~

The books are available at

After Amen is available on-line at Amazon.com
Alba Publishing: http://www.albapublishing.com
Brooks Brooks: http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com
Markino Studios: https://www.makinostudios.com
Pondhawk Press: https://jacquelinepearce.ca/books/poetry/
Red Moon Press: https://redmoonpress.com
Shanti Arts Press: http://www.shantiarts.co/catalog/books_poetry.html Snapshot Press: http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/index.htm
Martone’s book is available by e-mailing him at <jpmx@protonmail.com>