Beverley George

Beverley George

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Biography

'Beverley George… is the foremost champion of haiku, tanka and haibun in Australia and New Zealand.' - Patricia Prime Simply Haiku

Beverley George's writing spans a wide spectrum. A technical writer/editor for CSIRO Food Science 1995-2003, she began writing creatively in 1995 and since then has won prizes and publication for her short stories, poetry, children's writing, articles, haiku, haibun and tanka. Beverley edits and produces the magazines Yellow Moon and Eucalypt: a tanka journal. She is a Writing Fellow of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (NSW). Beverley is the current President of Haiku Oz, the Australian Haiku Society.

In 2004 Beverley won first place in four major international haiku competitions: the Third Ashiya International Festa; the British Haiku Society JW Hackett Award; the World Haiku Club Fourth New Year's Eve and New Year's Day Double Kukai and the World Haiku Club R H Blyth Award for haibun. Other awards include an Inspirational Award of Judges in the Second Ashiya International Haiku Festa 2002, second place in 2005, and first place in 2006, in the Tanka Society of America's International Contest. She also won the WB Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia and New Zealand consecutively in 2004 and 2005, the Vera Newsom Poetry Prize 2005 and the Society of Women Writers (NSW) Inc. Competition 2006. Her haiku and tanka have been published in UK, Japan, USA, New Zealand, Russia, Croatia and Canada as well as in Australia.

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