• My webmaster and I were working on the Fifth Anniversary Issue of Cha and out of the blue he asked me: “Tammy, are you an android?” Webmaster: You must be an android. There are subtle clues everywhere! Me: For example?…

  • BETRAYAL A Cha Poetry contest WINNERS ANNOUNCED (27 February, 2013 ) :::  SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED (5 February, 2013) This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems about “Betrayal”.   Judges: Tammy Ho is a Hong Kong-born poet.…

  • Congratulations to Cha‘s Reviews Editor Eddie Tay! His bilingual poetry collection, The Mental Life of Cities (Chameleon Press) is named a winner of the 2012 Singapore Literature Prize! The 2012 Singapore Literature Prize recognises and honours Singaporean fiction books in each of…

  • Thank you to all the writers who sent work to Cha‘s “Misinterpretation” Flash Fiction contest. Judges Reid Mitchell and Tammy Ho have selected the following three pieces as the finalists. Please scroll down to read the writers’ biographies and their commentaries on…

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong Nicholas Y.B. Wong‘s poem “Common” and its Chinese translation are now published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. || Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha’s profile here. ***** Marc Vincenz Marc Vincenz’s poem “Similar” can now…

    New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Marc Vincenz, Berit Ellingsen, W.F. Lantry and Murli Melwani
  • Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min It is always exciting to read a new issue of QLRS. In the current issue, you can read “Our Greatest Years Have Passed Like Flowers”, a poem by Leanne Dunic;…

    New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min and Wendy Xu
  • Matthew Wong and Reid Mitchell The Fall 2012 issue of Unshod Quills is now available! Matthew Wong is the featured artist and , two new poems by Reid Mitchell, “LIT BY FUJIAN MOONLIGHT” and “WOMAN WITH A MAN’S HEART”, are included in the…

    New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Matthew Wong, Reid Mitchell, Ricky Garni, Nikesh Murali and Patrick Donnelly
  • Ricky Garni Ricky Garni‘s four new poems “Well If That’s The Way It Must Be, OK”, “Stroll by Numbers”, “Magic” and “1961” are now published in the latest edition of Softblow. || Ricky Garni’s poem “Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms” was published in Issue #16 of…

    New Updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Donna Vorreyer, Christopher Anthony Leibow, Bob Bradshaw and Murli Melwani
  • [click the image to enlarge] Below is the shortlist for Cha‘s “Misinterpretation” Flash Fiction Contest. The three winning stories will be announced presently and published in the Fifth Anniversary Issue of Cha.  Shortlisted entries: -“Eclipsed” by Angelo B. Ancheta-“My Bhua” by…

  • – Click HERE to read the September 2012 issue of Cha.   The September 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Ivy Alvarez (poetry) and Berit Ellingsen (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would also…