contemporary haibun online is a quarterly journal published in March, June, September and December of each year.

Submissions are welcome at any time. If accepted, they will appear in one of the next three issues.

1. Blind Review Process: Content Editors Jim Kacian, Bruce Ross and Ken Jones independently read your submission and indicate their decision to accept or not accept. If but one editor accepts your haibun, it will be published in cho. If two or all three editors accept your haibun, it will also be published in the yearly print issue of contemporary haibun.

2. Submission Requirements:

a. You may submit up to three haibun so long as you accept the terms found on this submissions guidelines page.

b. You may submit further haibun only after you have received notice of the decision on the haibun you have submitted. In short, we prefer to be dealing with only three haibun at a time each writer.

c. You may submit only if the haibun is not in submission elsewhere. We do accept haibun that have been posted on Internet forums and on personal web sites that are not publication sites.

d. We will consider haibun that have been published elsewhere, but when you submit your haibun, you must inform us of the publication venue and date, and if accepted, it will be noted as previously published.

e. If your haibun has not been previously published, but the haiku has, you must inform us of the publication venue and date for the haiku, and if accepted, the haiku will be noted as previously published.

f. Once accepted, we reserve the right to publish the haibun in any of the next three issues of cho or in the annual print journal, contemporary haibun.

g. cho retains first rights, meaning that if your haibun is subsequently published elsewhere, cho or ch must be cited as the original place of publication.

3. Submission Procedure:

Submissions should be sent by email to Senior Editor Jim Kacian [redmoon@shentel.net]. Your subject line should contain cho, your name, the date. Your submission email should look as follows:

TO: redmoon@shentel.net

SUBJECT: cho, your name, your haibun title, date

Example:

SUBJECT: cho, Barb Jones, The Valley, July 15, 2005

Place your haibun directly in the body of the email and if you wish also attach a WORD or TEXT or RTF document. Do not submit PDF files. If you attach a document, name the file: "yourname.doc" or "yourname.txt" or "yourname.rtf.

Example: "BarbJones.doc"

In the body of the email, please state that you accept the terms stated above under item 2 [above].

4. Notification Timelines:

You will be notified within a week [subject to short periods of being out of town] of the time when Jim Kacian receives your submission. It will require at least an additional 30 days to notify you as to whether your submission has been accepted, accepted subject to revisions, or not accepted.