• Click HERE to read the March 2012 issue of Cha.   The March 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Ankur Agarwal (poetry) and Mag Tan (prose) for reading the submissions with us.…

    CHA Issue#16 Goes Live
  • originally posted here. Pillow Books [1] Things that quicken the heart/give you goose bumps—A Saturday morning latte, sprinkled with nutmeg. A cup of warm red wine infused with cinnamon. The wails of the neighbour’s cat—more human than feline. The alarm…

  • -[click– due out in September 2012. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its September 2012 issue (Issue # 18). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can…

  • Marc Vincenz’s Pull of the Gravitons David Chinot Marc Vincenz’s chapbook Pull of the Gravitons is nowavailable from Right Hand Pointing.  Marc Vincenz is Swiss-British and was born in Hong Kong.His recent books include Upholding Half the Sky(MiPOesias, 2010) and The Propaganda Factory,or Speaking…

  • – Three new poems by Ocean Vuong, “My Brother’s Ghost Returns”, “Beginning Again” and “Getting it Wrong”, are now published in Connotation Press. Read these poems and an interview with Ocean by Mari L’Esperance here.–Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published…

  • = An interview with Berit Ellingsen about her story “What Girls Really Think” is now available at Pachydermini books. The Pachydermini books is “a series of miniature books (2.5” x 3”) which features stories 300-700 words long each in their very…

  • – – Greg Santos‘s The Emperor’s Sofa is reviewed by Diana Salier at Banango. Read the review here. A review of Greg’s book is also forthcoming in the March 2012 issue of Cha. –– Greg Santos’s poem “Siem Reap, Cambodia”…

  • By Sam Nallen Copley The birth of art Fifty-thousand years ago, a Neanderthal in what became south-eastern Spain took a seashell, coloured it with goethite and fashioned it into a necklace. Life was hard in the Middle Paleolithic Period, and if this…

  • [click the image to enlarge] Description: This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished flash stories in English language on the theme of “Misinterpretation”.  Rules: -Each writer can submit up to two pieces (no…

  • By Tammy Ho and Jeff Zroback “Not To Be Reproduced (Portrait of Edward James)” (1937/) by Rene Magritte  I will do as you ask even though I know that as the Turkish barber is shaving my sideburns with a razor, it…