• – Congratulations to Cha contributor Kavita Jindal. She is named winner of the Haruki Murakami Short Story Competition, organised by London’s Foyles in association with Murakami’s publisher, Harvill Secker. Haruki Murakami selected one line from his latest novel 1Q84 (‘Carrying…

  • – Rumjhum Biswas’s story “Mother’s Garden” (first published in Sybil’s Garage) is now published in Pixelhose. Read the story here. If you like it, do click the “Like’ button to show support. –See Rumjhum Biswas’s Cha profile. –

  • – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Wolfboy” is now published in the December 2011 issue of Brink Magazine. Read it here. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. –

  • – In “Wondering what to give up for New Year? A few suggestions”, Charlie Brooker answers: A cupcake is just a muffin with clown puke topping. And once you’ve got through the clown puke there’s nothing but a fistful of…

  • –Eleven poems by Clara Hsu are now published in the Winter 2012 issue of The Tower Journal. You can also read Jack Foley’s commentary on Clara’s work here. – – Clara Hsu’s poetry was published in Issue #2 and Issue #12 of…

  • – Nikesh Murali’s “NAIDOC Week” is now published in Snake-Oil Cure, which is ‘a journal of fiction, photography, comic strips, art, reviews, opinions, and tonics, as well as a dash of everything else’. Read Nikesh’s short story here. – Nikesh…

  • – J.A. Tyler’s chapbook In Love With A Ghost, a Lit Pub title, will be released at AWP. Learn more about In Love With A Ghost here. – J.A. Tyler’s fiction was published in Issue #1 of Cha. –

  • Robert Masterson’s poem “The Lepidopterist”  is now featured in Fleeting Magazine. Read it here. – Robert Masterson’s poem “To the State Electrical Worker” was published in Issue #15 of Cha and discussed here. – – ––

  • – Marc Vincenz’s “Ameila’s Orange Grove”  is now up at October Babies. An earlier version of the poem was previously published in Up the Staircase. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. ––

  • – Berit Ellingsen’s short story “The Astronomer and the Kin” is in the twenty-forth issue (Volume 6, no 4) of the Wilderness House Literary Review. Read it here. – Read Berit Ellingsen’s Cha profile. –