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THE VENUE
Modern Haiga is an annual collection of graphic poetry in two distinct editions. The first edition for each year is the digital (online) edition at www.ModernHaiga.com. Any work accepted will be included in the digital edition. The second edition for each year is the full-color print edition, a perfect bound book. It will include a selection of the best works from the digital edition, but not all works published online. Any submission of a work to Modern Haiga is a submission to both the digital and the print editions for the current year. The digital editions are archived online.

SUBMISSIONS SCHEDULE
Modern Haiga has a continuous open submissions period. Everything submitted and accepted in a calendar year will be published in the digital edition of Modern Haiga for that year and also will be eligible for selection for the print edition of Modern Haiga for the year. As selections are made for the digital edition, they will be posted online on a continuous flow basis. This all adds up to your not having to worry much about any deadlines. We publish both in the print full-color edition, that is, a perfect-bound book of selected haiga from the year, and in the online digital edition.

EDITORIAL POLICY
Modern Haiga is an annual—both print and digital—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine modern graphic poetry, especially but not limited to, haiku, senryu, tanka, cinquain, cinqku, crystallines, cherita, and sijo. We are interested in combined art and verse of high quality. Editorial decisions are taken by a board of editors. Serious poetry and adult themes are appreciated. Doggerel and anything that is pornographic or in any way nasty, hateful, bigoted, or partisan political, will not be accepted. All such judgments will be made at the sole discretion of the editors.

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Any work submitted in any language other than English will be considered for publication only if accompanied by an English translation for simultaneous publication. For submissions in languages other than English, it is a good practice to query the Editor before submitting.

GRAPHIC ART — IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY

Modern Haiga has the facilities to reduce the size of graphic files, so please send us your best quality, highest resolution files. We expect the print edition to be in a letter-size format, so page images will be 6.5" wide x 9" high at the maximum and that includes headers and footers. That means your work needs to be readable at no more than 6.5"w x 8"h. The higher your submissions' resolution, the better. Please keep these proportions in mind when preparing your graphic files. The poetry within graphics must be readable and legible at these sizes. Both the digital and print editions will include full-color, so both full-color and black-and-white graphics are welcome. Graphic files will be sized as necessary for webpage exhibition and, if selected, for printing. If you cannot meet technical standards and want advice, please feel free to ask.

Graphics should be complete as submitted. That is, Modern Haiga will not HTML-code special designs, frames, etc., for individual works. All works in the digital edition will appear against a black background. In the print edition, works will appear against a white background. Therefore, any edging, box, or frame should be included in the graphic as submitted. For graphics with a white background, at least a minimal box outside edge should be included with the graphic. If works without a necessary box edge or mat background are accepted, Modern Haiga will add the needed elements.

We strongly encourage you to include your credits (signature) on the artwork itself. If the art and the verse are by two people, the credits should specify which is which. If both the art and verse are by one person, such specification is not required.

NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS
Please do not submit anything on offer anywhere else. We are not in the market for works under consideration for publication elsewhere.

NOT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED
We primarily seek to publish fine graphic poetry that has not been previously published. Each artist/poet is personally responsible for noting in the submission any previous publication of any submitted work. We may select previously published work of extraordinary merit, from time to time; generally, at our own initiative.

PLEASE NOTE
This is an edited annual. We DO NOT publish everything that is submitted to us. We reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion in ALL cases. If, for any reason, you cannot cope with rejection, better not to make submissions. We use only a portion of the submissions that we receive. There are plenty of other websites which are unedited and where you can post your work with no editorial interference if that is what you seek. We will publish multiple submissions from individuals but that does not mean that anyone has carte blanche to be published here. This applies to the editors themselves, whose submissions are equally subject to the selection process of the editorial board. When we make selections, we generally will notify you individually. The issue is posted online before the print publication; those submissions published online are accepted and those that are not published online were not accepted. Occasionally, we may want to offer some editorial comment, assistance, guidance, etc., in which case, we will respond to your submission before publication.

HOW TO SUBMIT FOR Modern Haiga
You may submit up to a dozen works at one time. We may publish as few as 1 or 2 works or a larger number. Please do NOT send us works that are still in work. Please send us polished works, error-free. Make your submission by sending your poems in to Modern Haiga in the body of an email or attached to an email as a JPG, GIF, PNG or other common graphic file. We strongly prefer JPG files but will consider other formats. If you have a special situation you want to discuss, please feel free to write any editor.

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PLEASE DO NOT SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ANY OTHER ADDRESS.

WHAT TO SUBMIT
Modern Haiga needs the following information: 1. Your name. 2. Your email address. 3. Your residential location: city, State/Province, and country (the minimum information acceptable is your country; the rest is optional). 4. If you are younger than 16 years of age, tell us so that we may comply with the U.S.A. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (the COPPA applies to children under 13; our minimum age limit is 16 as a matter of editorial policy). 5. The submission itself.

NOTE: You must be 16 or older to submit to Modern Haiga. If you are under 16, EXIT NOW !

EMAIL POLICY
We will not include your email address online unless you specifically request it. If you want your email address to be published, either online and/or in the print edition, you must specify your preferences in your submission email.

THERE IS NO PAYMENT FOR CONTRIBUTORS
No payment will be made. No contributor copies are furnished free. There will be no payment of any kind for accepted submissions for current and future issues in either or both editions of Modern Haiga.

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CONTRIBUTOR'S RESPONSIBILITIES
If you choose to submit any work(s) for publication in Modern Haiga, please read and familiarize yourself with these Submission Guidelines, as well as our Copyright, Privacy, and Editorial Policies. By submitting any work(s) to Modern Haiga, you are representing to Modern Haiga and its editors that you have the copyright to the work(s) and you are permitting Modern Haiga copyrights in accordance with Modern Haiga's published Copyright Policy, and that you hold Modern Haiga and its editors harmless in all respects from any copyright infringement caused by your submission.