In celebration of the Global Media and Information Literacy Week (GMIL) 2021, the NU Library, in partnership with the Writing Center, invites students to create a simple Haiku, an unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2021) focusing on how media and information literacy (MIL) can be incorporated into our daily lives. The winning piece will have a chance to be published in Angime, the trilingual literary arts journal affiliated with NU, and win some prizes.

Here are samples of haiku poems:

An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.

Autumn moonlight-
a worm digs silently
into the chestnut.

In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued hibiscus -
A lovely sunset.

- Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
(Sample retrieved from https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-haiku-poems.html)

Mechanics

1. This contest is open to all NU students.
2. Students may submit their Haiku entries from 18 October - 8 November 2021 through this link: https://tinyurl.com/MILinhaiku
3. Language of the piece can be in English, Russian, and Kazakh.
4. A student can submit up to four (4) Haikus
5. An impartial blind reading will be done by selected WCP Instructors / Angime Journal staff who will review the entries based on the following criteria:

• Depth of message/theme
• Clarity & precision of language
• Structure & technique (3 lines: 5/7/5 syllables)
• Flow
• Originality: voice, creativity, perspective

Announcement of winners: 15 November 2021