• Cha "Addiction" Poetry Contest

    ADDICTION A Cha Poetry contest ::::: READ THE WINNING POEMS AND RICKY’S COMMENTARY HERE. ::::: This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal on the theme of “Addiction”. Each poet can submit up to two poems (no more…

    Cha "Addiction" Poetry Contest

  • Cha – Call for Submissions – Ninth Anniversary Issue (December 2016)

    Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for the Ninth Anniversary Issue, scheduled for publication in December 2016. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be…

    Cha – Call for Submissions – Ninth Anniversary Issue (December 2016)

  • Issue 32 of Cha is HERE.

    Issue 32 of Cha is now available.  We would like to thank guest editors B.B.P. Hosmillo (poetry) and Mag Tan (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together the new edition. We would also like to…

    Issue 32 of Cha is HERE.

  • "Observations" — ASIAN CHA Issue 32 Editorial

    My love for you is not like new linens—nice for the first week but shrinking after the first wash. “If” is the French for yew. A coniferous tree. I wish I knew who sent me this dream: “Tammy (or Lai-Ming?),…

    "Observations" — ASIAN CHA Issue 32 Editorial

  • Issue 31 of Cha is HERE.

    We are very pleased to announce that Issue 31 of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Jason S Polley (poetry) and Sreedhevi Iyer (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together the edition.…

    Issue 31 of Cha is HERE.

  • "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)