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.
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