• CHA Issue #21 goes live

    – Click HERE to read the June 2013 issue of Cha.   The June 2013 issue of Cha is now available. We want to thank guest editors Jason Eng Hun Lee (poetry) and Cha‘s Consulting Editor Reid Mitchell (prose) for reading…

  • Cha – Call for Submissions – Sixth Anniversary Issue (March 2014)

    due out in March 2014. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for the Sixth Anniversary Issue, scheduled for publication in March 2014. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission…

  • What happens when you are in love?

    [Click image to enlarge] In Ways of Seeing, John Berger answers: When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can…

  • Do houses have loyalty?

    In Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence (1997), Geoff Dyer answers: I also thought of knocking on the door of our old house, explaining that I was born there, that I lived there until I was eleven,…

  • Cha "Void" Poetry Contest

    VOID A Cha Poetry contest NEW: Shortlist (Friday 24 January 2014)NEW: Winners announced (Saturday 29 March 2014) This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems on the theme of “Void”.   Judges: Tammy Ho…

  • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — "THE ANCIENT ASIA ISSUE"

    Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for “The Ancient Asia Issue,” an edition of the journal devoted exclusively to work from and about Asia before the mid-nineteenth century. From the beginning of the twentieth century, ancient Asia…

    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — "THE ANCIENT ASIA ISSUE"

  • Geoff Dyer, John Berger and lamb chops

    Geoff Dyer When Geoff Dyer was living in Paris, John Berger sent him a package containing four lamb chops, bloody and ‘totally fresh’, through the post. Dyer believed that’s a token to both Berger’s generosity and the marvellous efficiency of the…

  • CHA Issue #20 Goes Live

    – Click HERE to read the March 2013 issue of Cha.   The March 2013 issue of Cha is now available. We want to thank guest editors Marc Vincenz (poetry) and Kaitlin Solimine (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would also…

  • ASIAN CHA Issue#20 Editorial

    Hula Hooping (First published in Berfrois on 28 February, 2013.) . . “First snowfall of the year, Issy-Les-Moulineaux” by Oliver Farry  . I don’t want to be like a fruit that is small, round and has a bland taste. I like being written…

  • Cha "Betrayal" Poetry Contest – winners

    Thank you to all the poets who sent work to Cha‘s “Betrayal” Poetry contest. Judges Andrew Barker and Tammy Ho Lai-Ming have selected the following six poems as the finalists. Please scroll down to read the poets’ biographies and their commentaries on…