• Cha contributors in Asia Literary Review

    – The Autumn 2011 issue of Asia Literary Review, themed “Food”, is now available. Read Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s essay “Scavenging on Gold Mountain: of Food and Poetry”, Wena Poon’s story “Fideuà” and Reid Mitchell’s poems “Mouth Purses for a Kiss”,…

  • Fine Tea Writing Competition 2011 | Winners announced

    We are very happy to announce the winners for our first Fine Tea Competition 2011. First Prize £25.00Rumjhum Biswas discusses Sumana Roy’s “Love: Made in China”, published in “The China Issue” (July 2011). Second Prize £15.00Marybeth Rua-Larsen discusses Maysa Vang’s “Between…

  • Cha’s breaking news

    Looks like our internet service provider has been hacked and so our website is down. Hopefully they will be able to resolve the problem soon. We don’t want to give the hacker too much attention, but at least we can…

  • What might be the sexiest non-sex scene in poetry?

    “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” (1932) -Picasso ––– The HugBy Thom Gunn It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who’d showed us in the end To a bed I reached…

  • Cha – Call for Submissions – Issue #16 (February/March 2012)

    – DEADLINE: 15 December, 2011. Midnight, wherever you are. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its February/March 2012 issue (Issue # 16). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration.…

  • The nineteen words

    According to Dictionary.com, there are nineteen words in the English language that have no perfect rhyme. The Nineteen Words angst n., a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish. bulb n. any round, enlarged part, esp. at the end of a…

  • Marc Vincenz in The Nervous Breakdown

    –– Read Marc Vincenz’s “Wild Goose Chasing, or the Quest for the Golden Penis” is in The Nervous Breakdown.  – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Startwisted,”, previously published in THIS Literary Journal, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Suzie Lam Scorns the Happy Marriage Dating Agency”, previously published in Stirring, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • Changming Yuan and Nicholas Y. B. Wong in Drunken Boat

    Read Changming Yuan’s “The Drawing of a Dragon” and Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s “Accentuation of R” in the fourteenth issue of Drunken Boat. – Changming Yuan’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –