Links

Tanka Links

You’ll find many tanka resources online, in addition to our Ribbons and Laurels journals. Here’s a selection of them.

Organizations

• International Tanka Society (publishes International Tanka, formerly Tanka Journal) (Japan) [for info, email itseditors@googlegroups.com]

• Tanka Canada (publishes Gusts) (Canada) [seems to have discontinued; for info, email Kozue Uzawa]

Journals

• The Art of Tanka [for info, email Pamela Babusci]

• Einunddreissig / 31 Magazin (Germany)

• Eucalypt (Australia)

• Gusts (Tanka Canada) [seems to have discontinued; for info, email Kozue Uzawa]

• International Tanka (Japan Tanka Poets’ Society / Nihon Kajin Club)

• Kizuna (tan-ku journal) (Japan)

• Quail Eggs (United Kingdom)

• Sunflower Tanka (annual anthology)

• Take 5ive

Journals that Welcome Tanka

• The Abstractaphy Initiative

• Ardea

• The Bamboo Hut

• Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society members only)

• Cattails

• Chrysanthemum

• Drifting Sands Haibun

• Enchanted Garden

• #FemkuMag (women focus)

• Flying Fish

• Haiku Canada Review

• Hedgerow

• Kokako

• Mariposa (Haiku Poets of Northern California members only)

• MacQueen’s Quinterly

• Poetry Pea Journal

• Presence

• Prune Juice

• Rattle

• Right Hand Pointing

• Sonic Boom

• Tinywords

• Whiptail (open to one-line tanka)

Defunct Tanka Journals (or that welcomed tanka)

• American Tanka [http://www.americantanka.com/ is no longer working; see January 2021 WayBack Machine archive]

• Atlas Poetica [http://atlaspoetica.org/ is no longer working; see December 2022 WayBack Machine archive]

• Cirrus (French-language tanka journal, 2014–2019)

• Failed Haiku (sometimes had kyoka issues)

• Hummingbird (last issue was mid-2024)

• Modern English Tanka (link goes to January 2020 WayBack Machine archive)

• Moonbathing (women only; now publishing The Art of Tanka)

• Red Lights (Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Red-lights-tanka-journal-402853516419098/ no longer works; has no website; last issue was June 2024)

• Skylark (England; http://skylarktanka.weebly.com/index.html no longer works; see January 2026 WayBack Machine archive; discontinued, but old issues are available on Amazon)

• Tanka Journal (replaced by International Tanka, Japan Tanka Poets’ Society)

• Tanka Journal (Prolific Press; discontinued)

• Tanka Online (link goes to December 2021 WayBack Machine archive)

Other Links

• All Things Tanka (seems dormant)

• Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society (England; apparently inactive and http://tankasociety.com/ no longer works; see this link)

• Fujisan Awards (annual tanka contest in Japan, in September)

• Graceguts tanka page

• Inkstone Poetry Forum

• Kozue Uzawa’s Tanka Pages [http://tanka.a2hosted.com/ is no longer working; see December 2022 WayBack Machine archive]

• Mandy’s Pages Annual Tanka Contest [http://www.mandys-pages.com/contests/annual-tanka-contest is no longer working; see June 2024 WayBack Machine archive]

• Selected Tanka Bibliography

• Tanka (Academy of American Poets)

• Tanka (on Wikipedia)

• Tanka Francophone (and its journal, Revue du Tanka Francophone)

• Tanka in English (on Wikipedia)

• Tanka Poets on Site (on Facebook)

• Tanka Tuesday

• Triveni Haikai India (look for “Tanka Take Home”)

• The United Haiku and Tanka Society (annual tanka contest; may be discontinued)

• Waka Poetry (see also Waka Bibliography)

• Waka Society of America (annual contest and Petals online journal)

• What Is a Waka? (by Amy Vladeck Heinrich)

• Wind Five-Folded School of Tanka (Aha Poetry)

• Waka Bungakukai 和歌文学会 (Japanese)

• Waka Literary Society blog (Japanese)

• British Haiku Society

• Haiku Canada

• Haiku Society of America

Before the Tanka Society of America website moved in 2013 to the current .org domain used for this site, it previously had a .com domain name. You can view an archived version of the old website on the WayBack Machine. In the late fall of 2021, the site was migrated from Google Sites to New Google Sites and overhauled with a new design, structural and security changes, and optimization for computers, tablets, and phones. Below is how the site appeared in December  of 2021, before the new design was launched.