• Sridala Swami and Priyadarshi Patnaik in DesiLit

    – Sridala Swami’s “Dancing to Political Songs” and Priyadarshi Patnaik’s “Puri Town: Sketch no 27” are now published in DesiLit Magazine. – Sridala Swami‘s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha. Priyadarshi Patnaik’s photograph “Flight of the Toads” is the cover image of…

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “The River, Once”, previously published in Ducts Journal and Poets for Living Waters, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––

  • Cha contributors in Mascara Literary Review

    – The following Cha contributors have new creative works published in the May 2011 issue of Mascara Literary Review. -Nicholas Y.B. Wong: Poetry (“Walk With Words”, “Mark Twain as an Anti-Anti Smoker”) -Sam Byfield: Poetry (“Split Earth”, “Escaping the Central…

  • Margaret Lim, 23rd June 1947 – 8th May 2011

    Margaret Hui Lian Lim Today we heard the sad news that Cha contibutor Margaret Lim had passed away. Our thoughts and best wishes are with her family. We know Margaret through her writings, which will continue to inspire us. –– 

  • Fine Tea Competition 2011

    Artist: Annysa Ng  Description: Fine Tea articles may be on any poems, stories or artwork/photography featured in the history of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. To see the kind of analyses we have published, please visit http://finecha.wordpress.com. However, you do not…

  • Marc Vincenz in Danse Macabre

    –– Marc Vincenz’s poem “King Georgy and the Golden Helicopter” is now published in Danse Macabre. Visit this page and scroll down. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––

  • Changming Yuan in Radius

    – Three poems by Changming Yuan, “Another Difference”, “Worldly Affairs (1): The Bare Truth about USA” and “Worldly Affairs (6): Today’s Special” are now published in Radius: From the Centre to the Edge. Radius is an online literary journal dedicated…

  • Kristine Ong Muslim in Eye to the Telescope

    – Kristine Ong Muslim’s poem sequence “The Strangers” (which contains fifteen strangers – fifteen poems) is now published in Eye to the Telescope. The editor notes: Kristine Ong Muslim’s sequence of poems that, taken together, begin to paint a disturbing…

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong in Press 1

    – Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s humorous and thought-provoking poem “25 Anatomical Facts about Poets” is now published in the latest issue of Press 1. Read the piece here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • What are the most poignant encounters with music?

    …and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee . – Donne In the review article “Hubbub”, Nicholas Spice answers: [T]he most poignant encounters with music are inadvertent and unplanned. Church bells heard across the fields…