Second International Haiku Conference in Krakow - May 15-17, 2015 (Muzeum Manggha)

41 authors from 13 countries who arrived to Krakow as main participants:

Ludmila Balabanova (Bulgaria)
Valeria Barouch (Switzerland)
Roberta Beary (USA)
Zlata Bogovic (Croatia)
Stoianka Boianova (Bulgaria)
Ralf Broker (Germany)

Tomasz Budziak (Poland)

Marta Chociłowska (Poland)
Margaret Chula (USA)
Andrzej Dembończyk (Poland)
Dainius Dirgela (Lithuania)
Ana Drobot (Romania)
Rob Flipse (The Nederlands)
Takashi Ikari (Japan)
Robert Kania (Poland)
Zdravko Karakehayov (Bulgaria)
Wiesław Karliński (Poland)
Vitali Khomin (Ukraine)
Krzysztof Kokot (Poland)
Kinga Kowza (Poland)
Andrius Luneckas (Lithuania)
Zoran Mimica (Croatia)
Alicja Mojko (Poland)
Bob Moyer (USA)
Svetla Pacheva-Karabova (Bulgaria)

Jan Paliczka (Poland)

Brian Robertson (Germany)

Martyna Rozesłaniec (Poland)

Durda Vukelic-Rozic (Croatia)
Stjepan Rozic (Croatia)
Lidia Rozmus (USA/Poland)
Nan Schepers (The Nederlands)
Rob Scott (Sweden/Australia)
Sława Sibiga (Poland)

Jadwiga Siwińska-Pacak (Poland)

Iliyana Stoyanova (UK/Bulgaria)

Minko Tanev (Bulgaria)

Max Verhart (The Nederlands)

Ernest Wit (Poland)

Ikuyo Yoshimura (Japan)

Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda (Poland)

• 6 presentations

• 3 round-table discussions

• haiku reading

• haiga exibition:

- Dainius Dirgela

- Robert Kania / Tomasz Budziak

- Lidia Rozmus

• haiku contest (judges: Roberta Beary and Robert Kania)

first prize: Brian Robertson
second prize: Bob Moyer
third prize: Rob Scott
honorable mentions: Stoianka Boianova, Marta Chociłowska and Margaret Chula;

• conference publications:

- Haiku Anthology. Second International Haiku Conference (Publishing House Kontekst, Poznan 2015); multilingual
- Cherry trees and willows. Antology of Polish School of Classical Haiku (Japonica, Warsaw 2015); in Polish, English and Japanese
- 39 haiku by Robert Kania (Kontekst Publishing House, Poznan 2015); in Polish and English
- Whirligig Vol. VI-1 May 2015 with collections of 77 haiku by 26 Polish authors (in polish, english and dutch)

Thank you all. We have in Krakow wonderful haiku time.