The 2025 Sunflower Tanka Anthology is OPEN for submissions! We’re making our way through all the submission emails. I’ll start replying to the submission emails starting September 5th. Thanks for your understanding. 🌻
Don’t forget to get your tanka and experimental tanka submitted by September 9, 2025.
LEARN the forms HERE
Submission instructions HERE
Not sure how to create a tanka?
Thanks for your submissions. Robbie and I are thrilled to support syllabic poets! 🌻
Robbie & Colleen
Hello, Colleen, I sent and email with three Tanka poems on Sunday, I hope it arrived and… all is well 🌻 (there has been no confirmation email just yet, that is why I am letting you know here a bit too). Oh… Nicole Sara here, coming from StarrySteps blog ☺ Thank you, wishing you a nice end of the week! 😊
“Advice from a sunflower. Be bright, sunny, and positive. Know your roots. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine, and hold your head up high. Keep on growing. Even on the darkest days, stand tall and find the sunlight.“
~ Unknown
Are you ready to learn how to craft Japanese and American poetry? Consider this book the first step on your journey to learning the basics of how to craft syllabic poetry. Inside, you will discover many new forms, syllable combinations, and interpretations of the different Japanese and American forms and structures of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, renga/solo renga, gogyohka, haibun, tanka prose, the cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry. So… what are you waiting for? Let’s craft syllabic poetry together!
A yearly Anthology of tanka, tanka prose, and experimental tanka
Sunflower Tanka Anthology 
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