• Cha contributors in Horizon Review

    – The sixth issue of Salt’s Horizon Review is now live and four Cha contributors have new works in it. Read W.F. Lantry’s “Periplus”, Alistair Noon’s “From Earth Records”, Todd Swift’s “Hunting Party” and “Old Master” and Wena Poon’s “Sanjay…

  • Jennifer Wong in Streetcake

    – Jennifer Wong’s poem “Love” is published in the September 2011 issue of Streetcake. Download the PDF and read the poem, which is on the final page. – Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions” was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She…

  • W.F. Lantry in The Tower Journal

    – Five new poems by W.F. Lantry, “Prime”, “Gathering Flowers”, “Physick”, “Lectio” and “Waking Dream”, are now published in the Fall 2011 issue of The Tower Journal. Read them here. with each new daylight, praise what can’t be seenbut only…

  • Gillian Sze’s An Anatomy of Clay reviewed

    – Read a review of Gillian Sze’s latest poetry collection, The Anatomy of Clay, at Poetry Quebec. There is also a review in Winnipeg Free Press. –Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile.––

  • 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…