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The results of the Betty Drevniok Award 2006 were announced at the Haiku Canada Weekend Conference in Ottawa in May, 2007.
 
Judge: Angela Leuck
Contest coordinator, broadsheet : Ann Goldring
Sumi-e paintings: Cassandra Wyszkowski

First prize

a whitetail flickers
into birch . . .
what time I have left

Scott Mason
Chappaqua, New York


Second prize

valentine's day
the twinging
of angina

John Ower
Midland, Texas



Third prize

solstice
minnows darting above
their darker selves

Timothy Russell
Toronto, Ohio




HONOURABLE MENTION

silhouette
the moon outlines
her single breast

Grant Savage
Ottawa, Ontario


his sister's funeral
trimming his hair
before he goes

Patricia M. Benedict
Calgary, Alberta


Wild geese in flight
suddenly the sky
so wide

Helen Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia


call of a loon
cove light and shadow
ripple in

Scott Mason
Chappaqua, New York


summer afternoon
settling into its shadow
the old labrador

André Surridge
Hamilton, New Zealand


keeping them for a day
the broken pieces
of the heirloom bowl

Michael Dylan Welch
Sammamish, Washington


On the old wall
pictures of the past
the plaster falling.

Frances Mary Bishop
Alexandria, Ontario



Easter Sunday
neighbours on their knees
weeding

Ernest J. Berry
Picton, New Zealand


Please note: The deadline for 2007 has already passed. The deadline for the 2008 Award is February 14, 2008

Send entries to

The Betty Drevniok Award
c/o Ann Goldring,
Box 97, 5 Cooks Drive, Leaskdale, Ontario.
CANADA L0C 1C0