Unexpected news arrives from my homeland—”Anonymous Letters” has been recognized in the 2025 Galakonkurs, Russia’s “Galactic Competition of Arts.” https://galakonkurs.ru/finalists2025.html
This recognition, coming just weeks after the Creativitys UK Award, creates a strange symmetry: my work now exists as a bridge between the cultures that have shaped me.
To be acknowledged in both London and Moscow feels like confirmation of something I’ve long believed—that stories transcend geographical boundaries when they touch universal human experiences. The island that separates us is never as vast as it seems.
My gratitude to the Galakonkurs jury and to readers on both sides of this cultural divide. More stories to come.