• #WRITERSRESIST in Hong Kong — Readers

    Find out more about #WRITERSRESIST in Hong Kong by clicking here. Runyu Huang 黃潤宇，青年寫作者，江蘇無錫人，現於香港就讀。寫詩寫文，作品偶見於香港媒體、藝文刊物如《明報·世紀版》、《字花》等。 Akin Jeje, originally from Canada, now lives in Hong Kong. His works have been published and featured in Canada and Hong Kong. His poetry collection Smoked…

    #WRITERSRESIST in Hong Kong — Readers

  • Issue #34 of Cha is HERE.

    The Ninth Anniversary Issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank Associate Editors Arthur Leung (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together the new edition. We would also like to…

    Issue #34 of Cha is HERE.

  • “You Always Collected Lovely and Violent Things” — ASIAN CHA Issue 34 Editorial

    ‘Send me a postcard darling. How can I make you understand?’ —Shocking Blue In Chris Marker’s 1982 film, Sans Soleil, the female narrator whom we never see—Alexandra Stewart in the English version—reads, in a simultaneously insistent and soothing voice, fragments…

    “You Always Collected Lovely and Violent Things” — ASIAN CHA Issue 34 Editorial

  • Cha — Call for Submissions — “Writing Japan” Issue (June 2017)

    Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for “Writing Japan,” an edition of the journal devoted to work from and/or about Japan. Our special issue “Writing Japan” encompasses writing from and/or about Japan, broadly imagined. We hope to…

    Cha — Call for Submissions — “Writing Japan” Issue (June 2017)

  • “On Being Silenced” by Jonathan Mendelsohn

    (Picture via.) I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I’ve been challenged by so many people and I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you this country doesn’t…

    “On Being Silenced” by Jonathan Mendelsohn

  • Cha — Call for Submissions — Issue 35 (March 2017)

    Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 35, scheduled for publication in March 2017. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here.…

    Cha — Call for Submissions — Issue 35 (March 2017)

  • “Characters Under the Cantonese Umbrella” — ASIAN CHA Issue 33 Editorial

    ‘The umbrella’s enigma remains unsolved.’ —Jean Baudrillard, Fragments, p. 79. In If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, Italo Calvino wrote of “this world dense with writing that surrounds us on all sides.” This was an apt description of the…

    “Characters Under the Cantonese Umbrella” — ASIAN CHA Issue 33 Editorial

  • “Addiction” — Gerald Dicen

    We are happy to announce that six poets have been shortlisted for Cha‘s “Addiction” Poetry Contest. The results will be announced in Issue 33 of the journal, due out in late September 2016. [See other shortlisted poems.] Gerald Dicen’s “Re-apparition” GERALD…

    “Addiction” — Gerald Dicen

  • “Addiction” — Sithuraj Ponraj

    We are happy to announce that six poets have been shortlisted for Cha‘s “Addiction” Poetry Contest. The results will be announced in Issue 33 of the journal, due out in late September 2016. [See other shortlisted poems.] Sithuraj Ponraj’s “Ravana” SITHURAJ…

    “Addiction” — Sithuraj Ponraj

  • “Addiction” — Ankush Banerjee

    We are happy to announce that six poets have been shortlisted for Cha‘s “Addiction” Poetry Contest. The results will be announced in Issue 33 of the journal, due out in late September 2016. [See other shortlisted poems.] Ankush Banerjee’s “Grandmother Wouldn’t…

    “Addiction” — Ankush Banerjee