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Happy is an award-winning writer, and translator!

2024:

• The 2024 Golden Haiku competition; selected sign 

2023:

• The 2023 Annual Hortensia Anderson Haiku Awards (aha); first place: "midnight storm" haiku

• 2023 Sejong Writing Competition; second place: "At the start" sijo

• 2023 Sejong International Sijo Competition; winner: "A bottle" sijo

• 15th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest Selected Haiku Submissions Collection; "love" and "summer stars" haiku (page 14) 

2022:

• Liguorian, January 2022: Sonnets for Church Seasons

• The Mainichi, March 8: "overnight snow" haiku

• World Haiku Series 2021, Akita International Haiku Network

• Serow, Volume 5, March: three photo-haiku in collaboration with Nikolai Abramov, the photographer 

• first frost, #3 Spring 2022: "autumn rain" haiku

• WD Poetic Form Challenge: Chanso (top 10)

• Touchstone Award for Individual Poems 2021 winner: "beneath the blossoms" haiku

• Society of Classical Poets Journal X: Connected, a sonnet for Falun Gong 

• THF Monthly (May) Kukai; first prize: "spent blossoms" monoku

• THF Monthly (June) Kukai; first prize: "canning day" haiku

• Presence, Britain's leading independent haiku journal, issue #73 (July 2022): "dappled moonlight" and "spring forward" haiku

• first frost, #4 Fall 2022: "autumn leaves" haiku

• Sijo, Korea's Poetry Form, edited by Lucy Park and Elizabeth Jorgensen, The Sejong Cultural Society: contributor (sijo in Russian, and English)

• The Lamp, A Catholic Journal, issue #11: essay

• 2022 Sejong International Sijo Competition; runner-up: "I see one" sijo

• The 4th Morioka International Haiku Contest; grand prize: "shooting star" haiku

2021:

• Bewildering Stories, issue 885: Medusa, poem (The Editors' Choice) 

• The Ekphrastic Review, 1/20/2021: Old Trees, poem 

• The Ekphrastic Review, 2/8/2021: The First Eucharist, poem

• Bewildering Stories, issue 892: Canis Familiaris, short story (The Editors' Choice; recipient of the 2021 Mariner Award)

• The Society of Classical Poets: "Memento Mori," sonnet

• Tricycle, the Buddhist Review, Best of the Haiku Challenge (March 2021): honorable mention

• The Ekphrastic Review, Ekphrastic Writing Responses: Easter Challenge, 4/9/2021: Remembering, sonnet

• The Ekphrastic Review, 4/10/2021: At the Exhibition of Japanese Ceramics, poem by Roman Khe, translated from Russian by Sasha A. Palmer

• Friends of Falun Gong 2021 Poetry Contest, 1st place award: Connected, sonnet

• Connected, poem, referenced by James Sale in his article "What's Writing Classical Poetry All About?" (originally published in The Epoch Times, June 4, 2021)

• Japan Fair 2021 International Haiku Contest (haiku in English judged by Michael Dylan Welch): "beneath the blossoms...," haiku, 2nd place winner 

• The Society of Classical Poets: On the Traditional Latin Mass, sonnet

• cattails journal, October issue (p. 140): "peony petals...," haiga

• WD Poetic Form Challenge: Imayo (top 10)

• Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Volume 5:1, Autumn/Winter 2021-22: "my blind dog..."

• WD Poetic Form Challenge: Rondel Supreme (top 10)

2020:

• Happy: Fit Write In; short essays and poems by Sasha A. Palmer

• The Spectator Magazine, issue 15 August 2020, Competition 3161 (Bout-rimés): Thanos, Keatsian sonnet, honorable mention

Read Thanos here.

•  Defenestrationism 2021 FLASH SUITE Contest: Plain Old Magic, finalist

2019:

• Archives of Memories: Poems of a World War II survivor (Russian Edition); poems by Yefim Medvedovskiy translated by Alexandra (Sasha A.) Palmer

2017:  

• CAST, Origami Poems Project

• WD Poetic Form Challenge: Landay (top 10)

• WD Poetic Form Challenge: Clogyrnach (top 10)

• WD Poetic Asides Guest Post: "Why I Write Poetry" 

2016:

•  Writing Tips Oasis article: 5 Benefits of Writing in Your Second Language

• Theatre Cloud Loneliness Project poetry competition's winner: Most Powerful Piece

• Writing Tips Oasis article: 5 Ways Not to Begin Your Freelance Copywriting Career 

• Writing Tips Oasis article: 5 Things Freelancers Should Learn from Employer Branding 

• Compass Translation Award 2016 – Bella Akhmadulina Competition: third prize; Cardinal Points literary journal, Volume 7 (p. 228)

• Next Line, Please, a weekly column/poetry contest of the American Scholar website: Leaves of Presence (Nov 1, 2016)

•  Next Line, Please, a weekly column/poetry contest of the American Scholar website: The Potency of Cocktails (Nov 22, 2016)

2015:

• WD Poetic Form Challenge: Dodoitsu (top 10)

• WD Poetic Form Challenge: Decima (top 10)

• WD Poetic Asides guest post series (part 1):A Poet's Brain: "It's Alive!" 

• WD Poetic Asides guest post series (part 2): Poetry: A Natural Lifesaver

2014:

• Indies Unlimited 2014 Flash Fiction Anthology  

2013:  

• Slovo/Word #77  

• Western Haiku: A Collection
• The Red Wolf poetic anthology  

2012:

• Curio Poetry, issue 6  

•  Autumn, Origami Poems Project  

•  Poetic Bloomings, the first year  

2005:

• Upgrading Film Subtitling to the Level of Literary Translation

2004:

• Fragment from Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man vs. its Russian Translation Done by M.P. Bogoslovskaya-Bobrova: Critical Analysis of the Translator’s Strategies

• Grammar-Oriented Course Books: Their Role in the Classroom