Genjuan Haibun Contest 2016 Results

Grand Prix:
A Small Act – Diana Webb (UK)
An (Cottage) Prizes:
What’s in a Name? – Ignatius Fay (Canada)
The Great South Gate – Matthew Caretti (South Korea/USA)
Arm in Arm with Iza – Maria Tirenescu (Romania)
Honourable Mentions:
Love Story  – Anita Curran Guenin (USA)
Majesty – Geethanjali Rajan (India)
A Spectacle – Branko Manojlovic (Japan/Serbia)
One Grain of Sand – Mel Goldberg (Mexico)
Geronimo – Terri L. French (USA)
Judges:
Nenten Tsubouchi, Stephen Henry Gill (Tito), Hisashi Miyazaki
.  This year we had 127 entries from 16 different countries, our best ever response. The judges wish to thank all those who took the trouble to send something in to the Contest Office and they offer their hearty congratulations to the authors of the above decorated works.
. From a short-list of 14 works, it proved extremely difficult this year to decide on the winners. In the end, Diana Webb’s A Small Act appeared to be closest to exemplary. It is a very fine, open-ended work with good haikai taste.

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