This year’s Kikakuza Haibun Contest attracted 85 entries from 15 countries. The standard was high. You can read the four prize-winning entries - two American, one each from Bhutan and South Africa at the Icebox web site:

http://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/kikakuza-11-winning-haibun/

Details of next year’s contest will be announced later. Thank you to all who took the time to submit a piece and hearty congratulations to the winners.