Join the Haiku Society of America

Join the Haiku Society of America

Applying for HSA Membership Online

Please use a PayPal account to pay for membership in the Haiku Society of America. PayPal is an Internet service that enables any business or individual with an email address to send and receive payments online.

Click the appropriate Subscribe button below to begin the PayPal payment process.

Whether paying by online Paypal OR snail mail, NEW MEMBERS need to please download and fill in a membership information on a copy of the Membership Application and send it by snail mail or email attachment to the HSA secretary.

$40.00 USD

$42.00 USD

$50.00 USD

PLEASE NOTE: This membership includes (print copy of all publications; emailed newsletter).

International members may prefer to get the less expensive PDF Membership which inlcuds only PDF editions of all publications and the emailed newsletter.

$34.00 USD

$20.00 USD

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Benefits of HSA Membership

Members receive three issues per year of Frogpond

Members receive the HSA newsletter with valuable information on meetings and contests

Every member gets the annual membership anthology (includes haiku by all members)

Members pay a significantly reduced fee to submit their work for the HSA contests and awards

Read a member's testimony.

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Membership renewal is due on or before December 31 for the coming year. So PLEASE RENEW by December 31.

PLEASE NOTE: membership is for a calendar year, from January 1 to December 31. You may renew or join any time throughout the year, but you will only receive PDF instead of print copies of Frogpond and other publications if you renew or join after January 15 for that calendar year.

If your address changes any time during the year, please notify the HSA Secretary:

Michelle Schaefer
10535 NE 201st
Bothell, WA 98011

<HSASecWashington@gmail.com>

You may subscribe AND make a donation in any amount over the subscription fee.

The Haiku Society of America is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. Any amount donated over and above the regular membership fee is deductible for income tax purposes in the United States. The HSA depends in part on donations to keep membership dues as low as possible. Donations are recorded in the following categories:

translators, and students of haiku.

Friend: Up to $49
Donor: $50-$99
Sponsor: $100 or more

Donate or Pay Dues By Postal Service

To send in your donation or membership dues by postal service, please make checks payable to "The Haiku Society of America" (not "Frogpond" or "HSA"). Checks in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank, or a bank with an affiliate in the United States, are acceptable. Otherwise, please send bank draft in U.S. funds. Please mail your check or draft to:

Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, HSA Treasurer
PO box 187
Farmington, ME 04938

For questions, please email: cbv.hsa@encirclepub.com

Please let us know if you want your donation to be anonymous.

HSA Member on the Benefits of Joining the Haiku Society of America:

I've been an HSA member since 1995, and it's been vital to my education and networking as a poet of haiku and related Japanese forms. Each year, the HSA offers three book-size journals with poetry, informative essays, and book reviews, along with a members' anthology that allows haiku poets of all levels to get published. HSA also provides free programs at national conferences and through regional chapters with talented haiku poets leading workshops and critiques. Its comprehensive monthly newsletter connects worldwide members, and keeps them current about regional, national, and international haiku news and even publishing opportunities through other organizations.

More importantly for beginning poets, the HSA provides monthly mentorship programs in small groups through Zoom, led by seasoned poets, with participants' work critiqued and refined for publication. Further, HSA contests provide something of interest to all haikuists and authors of other Japanese poetic forms.

For just $35 a year, the Organization offers a wealth of benefits that simply can't be beat by most writers' organizations.

~ Charlotte Digregorio, Winnetka, IL

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