Month: October 2011
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– Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “Self-portrait as a cubicle” in Pank Magazine. Don’t forget to listen to the audio as well. ––Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile.
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– Two poems by Marc Vincenz, “Black Skies” and “Crushed Dragon Bones”, are now published in the October 2011 issue of Pirene’s Fountain. “Black Skies” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Congratulations! – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue…
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from Bernard Porter’s LRB article on Julia Lovell’s The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China: When it came to explaining their humiliations, the Chinese tended not to blame the invaders so much as themselves, or their Manchu…
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[Click the above image to enlarge] UPDATE: 20 long-listed poems were announced on 4 February 2012. [Link] UPDATE: 12 short-listed poems were announced on 10 February 2012. [Link] UPDATE: 7 finalists were announced on 15 February 2012. [Link] Description: This…
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– Congratulations to Cha contributor Yip Wai Shan! Her photograph entitled “Girlfriends, please don’t pee on my bed” won the first prize in SCMP (South China Morning Post) Portraits of Women Competition. All the winning photographs are now on display…
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– “You might also guess that I’ve never really been one for milestones. For me, the word is only one letter removed from millstones.”-Toh Hsien Min – Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (est. 2001), the first online independent literary periodical based in Singapore, turns 10! Remarkable!…
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Xi Chuan, whose poetry was published in “The China Issue” of Cha (translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein), will be reading at the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (November 10-13, 2011). Xi Chuan will be joining nine other Chinese-language…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Swimming Sheila in Psychopomp” (previously published in Metazen) is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––
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– We are currently looking for prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) guest editors for 2012 and 2013 to read the submissions with us.– The guest editor position is open to all past and current contributors regardless of genres. We usually read around…
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– Alistair Noon’s Out of the Cave was published by Calder Wood Press in September 2011. You can read some poems from the collection on Peony Moon. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The…
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– An extract from Alistair Noon’s ‘Would Passenger Sapho Proceed to Gate 31’ is now published in Ink Sweat & Tears. Read it here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat Partner: An…
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– Luisa A. Igloria’s poems “What I Don’t Tell My Children about My Hometown”, “Last Words” and “Measures” are now published in Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry. Read them here. – Luisa A. Igloria’s poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 of Cha. ––
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The October 2011 issue of Asymptote is now live. It features Murakami, Milosz and Szirtes, Lydia Davis’s first Dutch translations, essays by Dale Peck, various Burmese poets, Piyush Daiya, primers on Croatian novels and Eileen Chang, their first English Poetry…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “The Uh-Huh” (previously published in Metazen) is now up at October Babies. The Uh-Huh.The consequence of love. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––
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– Nicolette Wong’s photograph “Disquiet” is now featured at Dark Chaos. See it here. Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. –
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–– Read Marc Vincenz’s “Murdering the Chicken to Frighten the Monkeys: Part Two – A Bird in the Hand” is published in The Nervous Breakdown. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Marc Vincenz’s new poems “Cold Pollen” and “Pillowtalk” are published in Full of Crow. Read them here. – – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Erin Kelly’s fiction “The Confessionals” is published in Swamp Lily Review: A Journal of Louisiana Literature & Arts. Read the piece here. ––See Erin Kelly’s Cha profile.––
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. J.H. Martin’s new poem “Nec Spe Nec Metu” is featured in Mad Swirl. Also featured are “Holograms are We”, “An Inch of Jade”, “Autumn Leaves” and “Hasta La Primavera”. You can read them all here. – – J.H. Martin’s…
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– Read Sam Byfield’s essay “China and Australia: toward cooperative aid delivery” in East Asia Forum. – Read Sam Byfield’s Cha profile. – –
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– Jerusalem, the Olivier- and Tony-award winning play written and directed by Jez Butterworth and Ian Rickson respectively, was arguably the best play I have seen in London: wickedly funny, timely and featuring a great performance by Mark Rylance as Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron,…
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– Cha contributors and readers might be interested in contributing to the anthology Eastern Heathens, which will include fiction inspired by existing Asian folklore. You can see some information below. Please also visit the anthology website and facebook page. Editors…
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– – Congratulations to Robert Masterson. His poignant poem “The Distance Between These Things” wins Fleeting Magazine’s Best Short Writing in the World 2011. Robert will receive a year’s subscription to Stack, a personalised monthly selection of the best independent…
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[Click image to enlarge] [Facebook event page] –– Matthew Wong’s photography sequence will be featured in the fourth anniversary issue of Cha, due out in November 2011. ––
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– Sumana Roy’s poem “Desert” is now published in Guernica. Read it here. – Sumana Roy’s poem was published in Issue #14 of Cha. ––
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0 The quotes below are from Benjamin Markovits’s Childish Loves (2011). Some are from the ‘contemporary’ section and some from the 18thC and 19thC pastiche. Can you tell? (In my day maybe half the English department, and a quarter of the history…
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. One of Alistair Noon’s translations of Osip Mandelstam is now online at the October 2011 issue of Blackbox Manifold. Read “To the German Language” here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat Partner:…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Bicycle”, previously published in Stirring, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Ira Sukrungruang’s sex story “Longevity of Art” is now published in the new online literary magazine, Cedars. Read it here. – Ira Sukrungruang’s poetry has been published in issue #9 of Cha. ––
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– “Museum for Disappearing Buildings” as a storage vault for discarded architecture. The drawings describe a funereal chapel, where miniatures of “[e]ach disappearing building, even the most unprepossessing” are exhibited (Brodsky and Utkin 1984: n.p.). This project seems to call for a memorial for…
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