The 2026 (Not) in Love Haiku Challenge Winners & Finalists
We’re thrilled to congratulate Stephen Morrow, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2026 (Not) in Love Haiku Challenge! His poem “At the Theatre,” was selected by the Frontier Editorial Team as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were captured by the biting cleverness and honesty of submissions in this challenge. Thank you so much for sharing your (Not) in Love Haikus with our team. As always, we are so grateful for the continued support of our submitters, readers, and friends.
Stephen Morrow has been awarded the first-place prize of $500. Alice de Hubp was selected as the second-place winner and Benjamin Burns as the third place winner. Find the full list of our winners and finalists below. We look forward to publishing their work throughout the month of April.
Thank you to all who submitted, it was a pleasure to consider your work.
WINNER
Stephen Morrow
“At the Theatre”
Stephen Morrow’s work has been published in The Kenyon Review, The Laurel Review, Everyday Genius, and elsewhere. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
SECOND PLACE
Alice de Hubp
“oh disguised lover”
Alice de Hubp originally hails from Porto Alegre, Brazil, but she lives in Mexico City with her partner and cat. Alice’s fiction and poetry have been published in Juniper Zine, The Morgue Mag, Lunae Lit Review, the B’K, and Blue Crystal Lit’s Echoes of All Hallows’ Eve collection. Her work was longlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction award and is published in its tenth anniversary anthology. When she’s not writing, she’s learning to figure skate or make cocktails. Find her full list of published work at alicedehubp.carrd.co.
THIRD PLACE
Benjamin Burns
“He was coked out of…”
Benjamin Burns is a poet, sound artist, and performer who lives in Cork, Ireland. His poetry has been published in journals and anthologies, including: Hive Poetry Journal, Cork Words 2: An Anthology of Contemporary Cork Writing, and A Journey Called Home: poems and stories of the new Corkonians. He is a Co-Director of the poetry reading series Ó Bhéal go Béal.
The Finalists
Sarah Bonifacio
Sheelah Bearfoot
Michael Winter
A Ellis
Joan Glass
Susan Chiavelli
