From the web site:

Established in 1997, Yellow Moon is a bi-annual magazine. Yellow Moon has its own delightfully rounded personality. Certainly, it is a periodical that has a serious aim—that of raising the standard of haiku and related verse in this country.

It aspires to encourage writers to give their own country's unique flavour to the genre through the inclusion of their particular flora, fauna and climate—and not just to imitate that of its Japanese origins with which we are not familiar.

The nature of haiku (its immediacy and its closeness to nature) make this approach desirable. Yellow Moon is a print magazine. It is deposited with the National Library of Australia and other major Australian libraries to help preserve the writings of the poets of our times.

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Yellow Moon is an Australia based magazine that specializes in all sorts of poetry. While the leading form of art is, of course, haiku, the magazine also includes haibun, tanka, renga, cinquain, idyll, limerick, humorous, tetractys, and lantern.

A subscription for Yellow Moon costs $18 for a one year subscription, which includes 2 issues.

What makes this magazine so special is that it is completely competition based. This means that in order to be published in the magazine, you must enter your work into a contest. The contest in which you enter depends on what type of poetry you are entering. For example, the adult haiku competition is called “Seed Pearls." Seed Pearls tends to be the serious competition. After all poems have been entered, a qualified group of judges reviews the poems, and choose the winning entries to be published in the magazine.