• Cha’s March 2013 Issue (#20) Launch Reading at AWP

    There will be a launch reading for the March 2013 issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal at AWP. The event will be hosted by guest editors Kaitlin Solimine and Marc Vincenz and co-hosted by the Fairbank Center forChinese Studies at Harvard University. Feature readings by…

  • Cha "Betrayal" Poetry Contest – Shortlist

    BETRAYAL – Shortlist A Cha Poetry contest We have now selected the sixteen short-listed poems for Cha‘s “Betrayal” poetry contest. The finalists will be announced when the March 2013 issue of the journal goes live.  We are currently accepting general…

  • New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi and Nicholas Y.B. Wong

    Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi A new issue of Mascara Literary Review, edited by Michelle Cahill, is out. It features poetry by Mani Rao and Grace Chin, fiction by Ankur Agarawal and creative non-fiction by Sushma Joshi.  || Mani…

    New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi and Nicholas Y.B. Wong

  • Cha – Call for Submissions – Issue #21 (May/June 2013)

    due out in May/June 2013. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue # 21, scheduled for publication in May/June 2013. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines…

  • New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Nabina Das, Reid Mitchell, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Ricky Garni and Vinita Agrawal

    Nabina Das “Eyes”, a short story by Nabina Das, is now available in Open Road Review. A squall gets the power out. || Nabina Das’s poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha. ***** Reid Mitchell “Sea Shells”, a new poem by Reid…

  • CHA’s Micro Award 2012 Nominations

    Cha is nominating Tom Mangione’s “People are Fundamental” and Angelo B. Ancheta’s “Eclipsed”, both published in Issue #19 of the journal, for The Micro Award 2012. Congratulations and good luck!– Also see our Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations this year. – –

  • Kafkaesque China

    My friend: Hey, is there any way you could find out if there is a warrant for my arrest in the PRC? Me: Why do you think I have such high penetrating power? I am only an editor of a…

  • Cha’s 2013 Pushcart Nominations

    We at Cha would like to announce our nominations for the 2012 Pushcart Prize: “Sonia Wants to Rent An Apartment” by José Manuel Sevilla (March 2012) “When I Was the Chinaman’s Granddaughter-In-Law” by Dena Rash Guzman (March 2012) “Winter Seclusion”…

  • CHA Issue #19 Goes Live

    – Click HERE to read the November 2012 issue of Cha.   The November 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Arthur Leung (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would also…

  • ASIAN CHA Issue#19 Editorial

    this editorial was originally posted here | read the fifth anniversary issue of Cha here A Hundred Years of Karma     Recently I’ve been riding the bus a lot—three hours a day, more or less. I spend one eighth of my time…