Our next event is a free, virtual writing workshop with renowned teacher and haiku poet, Tom Painting. Every year, Mr. Painting’s students are at the top of the list for our annual student haiku contest.
Here is a look at what to expect in this exciting workshop, “we will start with an activity that unlocks the mystery of why haiku in English is best written in fewer than 17 syllables (11-13ish ideally)
From there we'll go into sensory images, seasonality, haiku form and function... and so on. The workshop will feature many fine haiku written in English.”
If you’d like to submit to our student haiku contest, this is the best way for you to learn how to write a winning haiku.
This workshop is for all ages!
(The event will be video recorded and later posted to YouTube. If you do not wish to appear on video, you are welcome to turn off your camera in the Zoom meeting.)
Workshop Form:
Teacher Bio:
Tom currently teaches junior high humanities at the Paideia School in Atlanta, GA. Since 2000, his students have had winning haiku in the Nicholas Virgilio Memorial Haiku Contest. Tom’s own haiku have appeared annually since 1998 in The Red Moon Anthology of English Language Haiku, published by Red Moon Press. Tom is an avid birder and enjoys hiking.