• Alvin Pang’s essay "TERRA INCOGNITA"

    – Read the essay “TERRA INCOGNITA” by Cha contributor Alvin Pang, featured on Civic Life. In it, “he writes of a geography of Singapore mapped through personal reminiscences.” – Alvin Pang’s poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs…

  • Gillian Sze reads in Toronto | May 11

    [Click the image to enlarge] –Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile.

  • Nicolette Wong in 52|250 A Year of Flash

    – Read Nicolette Wong’s short story “To The Trees”, now published in 52|250 A Year of Flash. – Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. –

  • Krishnakumar Sankaran in New Aesthetic

    – Krishnakumar Sankaran’s e-book under the hood of my umbrella (which includes the poems “A Night At The Beach”, “Why I always play undead”, “Drought”, “Clouds”, “Librarian” and “An Evening Among Silent Trees”) is now published in New Aesthetic. Read the…

  • Labels for all word lovers

    Or how I categorise the Cha submissions…..  Or how I categorise people….. – – – –––

  • A subversive Chinese connection

    [click image to enlarge] John Everett Millais’s Esther (1865) | Handmade oil painting The story might be that of a Jewish queen from the Old Testament, but it is the swathe of yellow silk that immediately strikes the viewers. Millais is…

  • Tai Dong Huai in Birds Singing in Englishes

    – Tai Dong Huai’s short story, “New Babies”, first published in Issue #5 of Cha, is now translated into Japanese in Birds Singing in English. Both versions are available here. The story was discussed by Cha’s consulting editor Reid Mitchell…

  • "broken jars / That once held wine or perfume"

    And the word ‘love’ makes no sense, this history is almostRipe for the mind’s museum — broken jarsThat once held wine or perfume.Yet looking at their elegance on the standsI feel a certain pride that only lately(And yet so long ago) I…

  • Cha’s co-editor Tammy Ho in King’s College London’s In Touch

    Cha’s co-editor Tammy Ho is featured in the Spring 2011 issue of King’s College London’s In Touch (p. 42).   – –

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong in ZAUM Literary Magazine

    – Two poems by Nicholas Y.B. Wong, “Aqua” and “Floating Gaumet”, are now published in ZAUM. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. ––