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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Mar 22

Step into Infinity with us for just £9.99 by getting a copy of our new poetry book "Infinity Strings".

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

(Also available from all other Amazon stores)

#WritersLift #shamlessselfpromo

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · 16d

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

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

www.vsana.org/ppp-40-aug-1...

#micropoetry #haiku #viewingstone #writingcommmunity

Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Aug 30

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:
haikupresence.org/subscribe/

Amazon links to Infinity Strings:

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

#poetrybook

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

Thanks to editors for the honour!

haikupresence.org

📷 canva

#micropoetry #haiku #WritingCommmunity #poetry

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Aug 24

thanks! :)

Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Aug 23

*canva

Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

www.modernhaiku.org

Image: Canava

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity #poetry

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

haikugirlsummer.substack.com/p/monday-817

#haiku #writingcommunity #micropoetry #poetry

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Review:
kokako10.wordpress.com/current-issue/...

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

Also available from other Amazon stores.

Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity #poetry

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2025

#haiku #writingcommunity #poetry #micropoetry

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archiv...

#micropoetry #haiga #haiku #tanka #writingcommunity

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jul 18

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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#WritingCommunity #haiku #micropoetry

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

old family house
our fading fingerprints
on each wall

www.modernhaiku.org/index.html

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

Welcome to Modern Haiku

Modern Haiku magazine is a leading English language haiku magazine, publishing haiku, haibun, senryu, essays and book reviews related to contemporary haiku.

www.modernhaiku.org

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

drive.google.com/file/d/1hx4w...

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

online.fliphtml5.com/haikupause/y...

#haiku #micropoetry #climatechange

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

tsuridoro.org/issue-28-jul...

#writingcommunity #micropoetry #haiku

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jun 26

Haiku of the day!

Thanks Shloka and Vidya for the honour! 🙏

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

thehaikufoundation.org/hifsa-ashraf...

Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

underthebasho.com/the-journal/...

#haiga #haiku #micropoetry

Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jun 20

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...

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Stormlight in the wanderer’s heart a dream of love--Tsanka Shishkova (Sofia, Bulgaria)

www.asahi.com

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jun 14

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

suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.html

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

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...

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thanks! :)

Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thanks! :)

Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · Jun 14

Glad to have two haiku published in 2025 SAKURA Haiku Challenge Anthology by Consulate-General of Japan in Toronto. Thanks Consulate General of Japan in Toronto for the honour!

www.toronto.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100855...

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

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