Tomorrow, at midnight, on September 9, 2025, submissions will close for the 2025 Sunflower Tanka Anthology.
DON’T be late!
Start writing! Get those submissions in!
Check out the submissions page and send us your best tanka, tanka prose, & experimental tanka!
➡️ Submissions ⬅️
🌻Robbie & Colleen🌻
“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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