MayflyRandy & Shirley Brooks started editing Mayfly in 1986 as a new approach to publishing haiku. We announced that we would publish an issue after we had acquired the quality haiku needed. All submissions are judged competition style, together before each issue. We are now biannual, publishing an issue every summer and winter. a
mayfly --Peggy Lyles We feel it is the duty of the editors and writers to make careful selection and proper presentation of only the very best, the most evocative, the truly effective haiku. We publish only 14 or 15 haiku per issue, but each haiku is printed on its own page. The writer is paid $10.00 per haiku.
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Starting with the year 2000 issues, Mayfly was redesigned by Lidia Rozmus in order to continue featuring individual haiku on each page, and in order to also feature a haiga painting of a selected "best of issue" from the previous issue. The first haiku featured was the following haiku by R.A. Stefanac: splitting open —R.A. Stefanac Click on the cover above for a full screen version of the haiga. |
Special Features: Each issue features 14 or 15 top-quality haiku. That's all. No book reviews, no prose pieces, no announcments of new publications. Just 14 or 15 haiku worth reading and re-reading again.
Subscription: Subscription $8 for one year (two issues) US and Canada; overseas the cost is $8 plus $4 US dollars for postage. Make checks or send cash or international money orders payable to Brooks Books. You may subscribe to MAYFLY online as a secure transaction with your credit card through paypal.com. Just include your mailing address, the books wanted, amount to be paid to brooksbooks@sbcglobal.net postage. 
Back Issues Available: Back issues of Mayfly are available for $4.00 each, or a complete set of Mayfly magazine issues, including photocopies of out-of-print issues is available at the price of $100.00.
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Submission Guidelines: Writers also need to be selective, so we limit submissions to only five per issue. Include an SASE or appropriate IRCs necessary to return your manuscript, or it will end up in the round file. We publish a winter issue in December or January and a summer issue in June or July. We also have been deliberately slow in returning submissions for an issue, re-reading the "maybes" for several months until publication date.
Editors: Randy & Shirley Brooks Published by:
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