• = 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 It is for unpublished flash stories in English language on the theme of “Misinterpretation”.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…

  • Hawai’i Review has announced the winners of the 2012 Ian MacMillan Writing Awards and congratulations to Nicholas YB Wong! His poem “Ode to Objects” won the second place in the poetry section. Read the judge’s and Nicholas’s comments on the…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Rangoon” is now up at October Babies. The poem was previously published in Right Hand Pointing. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. –

  • Bryan Thao Worra‘s poem “Pen/Sword” is now published in the fourth issue of Lantern Review, edited by Iris A. Law and Mia Ayumi Malhotra. Read Bryan’s poem here and make sure to read the entire issue here! – Bryan Thao…

  • – Four Cha contributors have new works published in the new issue of Muse India. ||| Sridala Swami’s  “Twisitng”, “Today’s Featured Sorrow” and “Synaesthetic”||| Aditi Rao’s “The International Mango Festival”, “Sometimes, When Prayers are Shouted from Rooftops, the Echoes are the…

  • – Yew Leong Lee’s translation of Liu Qingban’s “The One Who Picks Flowers” is published in the English insert (titled Peregrine) of the sixth issue of Chutzpah Magazine. Peregrine features English translations of selected pieces of the Chinese content. You can download…