the editor of the new anthology series [coming in 2002]
the editor of dew-on-line [coming in 2002]
the founding editor of still

    ai li

Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society
[Established 1853 and whose Patron is HM The Queen]
Editor of the new anthology series, storybooks of healing
Editor of dew-on-line, an independent e-zine, off-shoot of still
Founding Editor of still, an independent
literary journal of Haiku, Tanka and short verse
Publisher, still
Publisher, the empty press

2nd prize winner 1995 Time Haiku Metaphor Competition
2nd prize winner 1996 First Annual UK Haiku Championships
2nd prize winner 1996 National Pub Week : The Holly Bush Poetry Competition
2nd prize winner 1996 Canadian Writer’s Journal Poetry Competition [Haiku Section]
2nd prize winner and 10th Honourable Mention 1996 Hawaii Education
Association Nineteenth Annual International
Haiku Contest [Hawai'i Word Category], USA
Award winning poet Tanka Splendor 1997, California, USA
4th Honorable Mention 1997 Hawaii Education Association
Twentieth Annual International Haiku Contest
[Humorous Category], USA
Finalist Herb Barrett Award 1998, Canada
Honourable Mention 1998 Mainichi Haiku Contest, Japan
Certificate of Merit [Haiku] 2001 Japan Society on Water Environment
Certificate of Merit [Tanka] 2001 Japan Society on Water Environment

Author of ‘words by ai li’ and ‘words 2 by ai li’. These two books were in the ‘Painted Leaves’ Exhibition of hand-crafted books at Liberty, Regent Street, London in November and December 1995. Both books are available at The Poetry Library, South Bank [Lending and Reference Section] and at The American Haiku Archive, California State Library, Sacramento.

A small selection of ai li's Haiku have also been featured on the Electronic Poetry Network
at Shreve Memorial Library, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

ai li is one of the featured poets in  'Global Haiku : Twenty-five Poets World-wide', published by Iron Press [UK]. Several of her haiku have been translated into Spanish,
French, Malay, Gaelic and Japanese.

She was also one of two judges for the
International People's Haiku and Senryu Competition 2000 [Canada]
and she is currently judging a Legends challenge for 2002.

Two Summer Haiku of ai li's have been selected to be read on the
Morning Haiku programme just before 6 am
on KRCB Radio sometime in mid-July 2002.

For a 2001 Poet's Profile on ai li which includes an interview with her, please visit Jane Reichhold's website [archive section] at : AHA Poetry  

Publications

Frogpond, [Journal of The Haiku Society of America] and its newsletter [USA], Mainichi Haiku Contest [Japan], Modern Haiku [USA], Ko magazine and Ko 10th Anniversary Issue [Japan], Canadian Writer’s Journal [Canada], South by Southeast [USA], Mainichi Daily Press [Japan], Lynx [USA], still [UK[, Haiku 96 [Poetry Postcard Quarterly UK], black bough [USA], Eikoku News Digest, Blithe Spirit, [Journal of The BHS] and its  newsletter ‘The Brief’, Woodnotes [USA], Presence, Time Haiku and its  newsletter, New Hope International Review, BHS Anthology 1995 [Sky], BHS Anthology 1996 [Home], Inscape Journal, Lipservice [Journal of London Independent Photography], zimmerframepileup, RAW NerVZ  Haiku[Canada], ant 5 [USA], The Red Moon Anthology 1996, 1997 & 2001 [USA], Mainichi Haiku Contest 1997 [Japan], Tanka Splendor 1997 [USA], BHS Anthology 1997 [Away], Basho's 51st Festival Haiku Anthology [Japan], Cold Morning, Herb Barrett Haiku Anthology 1998 [Canada], HQ The Haiku Quarterly, American Tanka [USA], Haiku Happens Anthology [Winfred Press, USA ], Point Judith Light [USA ], A Solitary Leaf, 1996 Members' Anthology Haiku Society of America, From A Kind Neighbor, Haiku Society of America 1997 Members' Anthology, The Cat Tanka & Haiku Book [France], Mainichi Haiku Contest 1998, People's Poetry Letter [Canada], Mainichi Haiku Contest 1999[Japan], BHS Anthology 1999 [Forest], The Red Moon Anthology 1999[USA], The Art of Haiku 2000 [UK], Global Haiku: Twenty-five Poets World-wide 2000 [Iron Press, UK], bottle rockets [USA], Peer Poetry International [UK], Sunday at Four [USA], In Buddha's Temple [USA], and Hummingbird [USA], proof press [Canada], Acorn [USA] and Winners' Works: The English Tanka & Haiku on Water, River, Lake and Sea  2001 [Japan] and Internationalization of Japanese Poems - HAIKU, TANKA, SENRYU 2002 [Japan].

Readings

Poetry Café, Covent Garden
Daiwa Foundation Japan House, Regents Park
Haiku City Reading, San Francisco
Design Museum, Shad Thames
Farrago Poetry, Chats Palace
Out of Reality, Islington
Express Excess, Chalk Farm
First UK Haiku Slam, Chats Palace
The Spinning Room, Hampstead
Border Books, San Francisco
haZy mOOn Club, Hampstead
Return of the Tiger, Golders Green
Pentameters Theatre, Hampstead

Electronic Journals
and Haiga websites

Chaba [USA]
Hai-Rise Urban Haiku [UK]
still [UK]
Haiku Light [CANADA]
Tanka Light [CANADA]
Chameleon [USA]
dew-on-line [UK]
Haiga online [USA] [forthcoming]
see haiku here [Japan]
Asahi Haikuist Network [Japan]
Tangerine [forthcoming]

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