Submissions will be read
during January/February and July/August only

Original, unpublished haiku, not under consideration elsewhere, are welcome from all writers. Please send submissions of 5-15 poems.

Acorn publishes in April and October. The deadline for the Spring issue is February 28; the deadline for the Fall issue is August 31. Submission review begins two months before the deadline. No submissions will be read prior to that time.

Email submissions are encouraged. Type "ACORN" in the subject line, and include your complete mailing address somewhere in the message. Please type haiku in the body of the message, formatted as plain text. Attachments will not be opened. Email submissions should be sent to acornhaiku [at] mac [dot] com (please replace [at] and [dot] with proper symbols before sending). Snail mail submissions will be given equal consideration and should be sent to

ACORN

Carolyn Hall, Editor

122 Calistoga Road  #135

Santa Rosa CA 95409

USA

All postal mail submissions must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) or IRC.

Appearance in an edited online journal or zine constitutes prior publication; appearance in an unjuried online workshop or newsletter does not. All copyrights revert to author upon publication.

Authors who have not previously published in a specialized haiku journal, or are new to the genre generally, may want to consult the following introductory essay, which gives some ideas of our editorial outlook: Contemporary Haiku: Origins and New Directions (by A.C. Missias). Sample poems from recent issues are also displayed on this website.

Our apologies: Due to substantial increases in printing costs and postal rates, effective with the Fall 2009 issue there will no longer be contributors' fees paid.