• "Peculiar Imperatives" — ASIAN CHA Issue 31 Editorial

    I am a proud, obsessive aunt. I ask my sisters to tag me whenever they post pictures and videos of my niece and nephew on Facebook. These are the notifications I love to receive the most. I play the videos…

    "Peculiar Imperatives" — ASIAN CHA Issue 31 Editorial

  • Cha — Call for Submissions — Issue 33 (September 2016)

    Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 33, scheduled for publication in September 2016. 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 33 (September 2016)

  • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Poems on the theme of “Distance” for the June 2016 issue of Cha

    PLEASE READ THE SELECTED POEMS HERE. In collaboration with Health in Action, a Hong Kong charity that promotes community health and wellbeing through the empowerment of the underprivileged, Cha is publishing a special section of poetry on the theme of…

    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Poems on the theme of “Distance” for the June 2016 issue of Cha

  • Cha’s nomination for Best Small Fictions anthology

    Cha has nominated Henry Wei Leung’s short fiction “Getting There”, published in the March 2015 issue, for inclusion in the Queen’s Ferry Press anthology, The Best Small Fictions 2016, which seeks flash of 1000 words or fewer published in 2015.…

    Cha’s nomination for Best Small Fictions anthology

  • Cha — Call for Submissions — Issue 32 (June 2016)

    Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 32, scheduled for publication in June 2016. 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 32 (June 2016)

  • The Eighth Anniversary Issue of Cha is HERE.

      The Eighth Anniversary Issue of Cha is here. We would like to thank guest editors Arthur Leung (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together yet another anniversary edition. We would also like to…

    The Eighth Anniversary Issue of Cha is HERE.

  • "Eight Years, Eight Lessons" — ASIAN CHA Issue 30 Editorial

    Thank you for joining us for our Eighth Anniversary Issue. I am not sure that neither my co-editor Jeff Zroback nor I would have imagined at the beginning that Cha would have lasted this long. But here we are. When…

    "Eight Years, Eight Lessons" — ASIAN CHA Issue 30 Editorial

  • Cha — Call for Submissions — Issue 31 (March 2016)

    due out in March 2016. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 31, scheduled for publication in March 2016. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines…

  • CHA’s Best of the Net 2015 Nominations

    We are happy to announce that the following pieces, selected from the September 2014, December 2014, March 2015 and June 2015 issues of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net…

  • Cha "Hong Kong" Poetry Contest

    Hong Kong A Cha Poetry contest This December, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal will turn eight years old. To mark the occasion, we are running a poetry contest that focuses unashamedly on the city that the journal calls home—Hong Kong.…