The Haiku Challenge: And the winners are…
… going to be announced by the end of the week.
The entries to The Haiku Challenge are now in the hands of the four judges and the winners will be announced by Friday. As noted earlier, the winner receives three bottles of 42 Below vodka and a 500-kuai gift certificate to Song. Three runners-up each get a bottle of 42 Below. All authors are commended for their efforts for, as William Hazlitt penned, “Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.” Hear, hear…
The panel of judges:
- Witty/wacky wordsmith Will Moss of the Imagethief blog
- Jo Lusby of Penguin Group
- Modern-day vagabond, able bartender and IT guru Badr Banjelloun
- And last, but certainly not least, hailing from the land of the haiku, Naoko Aoki of Kyodo News
To ensure fairness, I provided the judges with the haikus in alphabetical order, using the first letter of each haiku, and kept the authors’ names secret. No Sake, Shoju, Suntory, Kirin or other such alcoholic beverages, not to mention 42 Below vodka, will be provided to the judges until after the winners are decided.
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