Hifsa Ashraf

Thrilled to have received the 1st Prize in the 9th International Haiku Competition for the Radmila Bogojević Award 2025. Thanks to the jury!

hazy day—
untying the knots
of mom’s apron

maglovit dan –
odvezujem čvorove
na maminoj kecelji

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Beyond Emptiness is a collaborative mystiku (mystical haiku) collection by Hifsa Ashraf, Jacob D. Salzer, and Nicholas Klacsanzky.

Please get your copy from Lulu.

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"Beyond Emptiness"—my collaborative poetry collection on mysticism with Jacob D. Salzer and Nicholas Klacsanzky is now available on Lulu.

Grab your copy, give it a read, and feel free to share your thoughts. Link to the book.

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Many thanks to John Han for including my haiku in the October issue 32 of Fireflies’ Light.

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tussock moth caterpillar
napping softly
on my rose

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Per Diem - Haiku of the Day! Thanks Richa and Vidya for the honour!

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Many thanks to my mentor and dear friend Alan Summers for including my haibun in Pan Haiku Review, Issue 5 – Haibun & Tanka-bun.

If you’re interested in learning haibun, consider enrolling in the "Tiny Haibun" course with Alan Summers. Here’s the link:

www.callofthepage.org/courses/haib...

Many thanks to Tom Elias for featuring my two haiku in VSANA, inspired by the August stone, "Buddha's Hand."

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Thanks to Judy Kendall for a beautiful review of our poetry book Infinity Strings for the July issue of Presence. For full review, please follow the link:
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Amazon links to Infinity Strings:

UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/1399993089
US: amazon.com/dp/1399993089

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Happy to have a haiku in the latest issue of Presence#82.

Thanks to editors for the honour!

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Many thanks to Paul Miller for including my haiku in the latest issue of Modern Haiku, issue 56.3.

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Image: Canava

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Glad to have a haiku in Haiku Summer Girl. Thanks C X Turner Luci for the honour!

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A beautiful review of our poetry book Infinity Strings by Pippa Phillips published in Kokako, 43 September issue. Thanks Pippa Phillips!

Review:
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Amazon:
UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/1399993089
US: amazon.com/dp/1399993089

Also available from other Amazon stores.

Glad to have three haiku in Frogpond, Issue 48.2. Thanks Allyson Whipple for the honour!

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Many thanks to Joe and Luci for including my five poems in the Summer 2025 issue of Wales Haiku Journal.

www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2025

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Glad to have a haiga published in daily haiga. Thanks Linda!

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Glad to have two haiku included in #Femku Mag, issue 39, summer 2025. Thanks to Rowan Beckett Minor and Carissa Coane.

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Thanks Paul for including my haiku in the latest issue 56.2 of Modern Haiku.

old family house
our fading fingerprints
on each wall

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Grateful to the editors of Haiku Pause for including my haiku in the latest issue of Haiku Pause on the theme of climate change.

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View and Download Haiku Pause Issue 2 as a Flip Book here:

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Many thanks to editor Tony for including my haiku in tsuri-dōrō issue #28 – July/August 2025.

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Haiku of the day!

Thanks Shloka and Vidya for the honour! 🙏

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Many thanks to Don Baird for publishing a collaborative haiga of mine with Oscar Luparia in the haiga section of Under the Basho Journal.

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barking dogs
shifting our conflicts
from home to neighbours

-Hifsa Ashraf

Published in ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray
May 30, 2025

www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

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COLUMNS Turning Japanese #16 – Crossroads May 2025, Editor Tim Gardiner The theme of crossroads is relevant to so many in a personal context, but th...

Many thanks to Tim Gardiner for including my #haiku in the Suspect Device Zine column, Turning Japanese #16 – Crossroads, May 2025.

old snow…
layer by layer
the political vows

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