Apokalipsa magazine prolongs call for
12th SLOVENIAN CONTEST FOR BEST HAIKU
A maximum of six unpublished haikus are to be sent in by one author. Choosing this "purest, shortest and most poetic" form of poetry is not restricted to a 5-7-5 metric system or any particular subject.
Several useful prizes will be awarded and the best haikus will be published in the September 2010 issue of Apokalipsa magazine. Authors will be notified about the contest results personally and publicly. The incoming haikus will be evaluated by the following jury members: Alenka Zorman, Ivan Dobnik and Jože Štucin. The prizes will be awarded at the 7th International magazine inside magazine festival ceremony on Friday, 24 September 2010, in Glej theatre in Ljubljana.
Please send in four copies of the haikus signed with a code until 31 March 2010 to the following address: REVIJA APOKALIPSA, UI. Lili Novy 25, 1000 Ljubljana, marked For the haiku contest. A sealed and code marked envelope with author information (name and surname, address, telephone number, occupation, age) should be enclosed. Haikus can also be sent via e-mail to the following address: apokalipsa@t-2.net, and should also include the reference For the haiku contest, code, and author information.
Apokalipsa magazine is issuing a call for
6th HAIKU COMIC OR COMIC OF HAIKU?
If a haiku is always derived from simplicity, brevity, and the use of least words possible – without redundancy, which express the whole dimensionality of a haiku moment, which is the starting point and goal of the haiku masters’ creativity, interpreting a comic we can speak about experimentation with time, i.e., moment. A haiku comic is a multifaceted experiment that incorporates various interpretations of a personal experience in form of a “frozen” moment – a quick sketch or illustration, an “explained” moment in form of banner short stories, which occasionally flirt with animation approaches, and one- or more-page form, which visualises a certain haiku or creates an atmosphere that forms a basis for understanding a certain moment, message or thought within its time frame.
Your haiku comics will be published in the September 2010 issue of Apokalipsa magazine and in its special volume Haiku comic 6 edited by Boris Baćić. A special comic exhibition and projection within the project Ljubljana 2010 – World Book Capital, and Pecs 2010 –European Capital of Culture, is also planned. The authors will be notified about the upcoming events and will receive the publication by regular mail. Please send the contributions until 1 June 2010 to the following address: REVIJA APOKALIPSA, UI. Lili Novy 25, 1000 Ljubljana, marked Haiku comic, or via e-mail (in tif or jpg format, 600dpi BW or 300dpi GRAYSCALE) to the following address: bajabak@gmail.com.