• W. F. Lantry in THIS Literary Magazine

    – W.F. Lantry’s short story “Carré Setting” is now published in THIS Literary Magazine. Read it here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –

  • Asian Content for the World’s Children | 26-28 May 2011

    –From their website:– Theme: Connecting With Connected Kids Once upon a cyberspace, children explored the world through libraries, bedtime tales and story books. Books are still around, but they are looking different. As technology puts media access into children’s pockets…

  • W. F. Lantry and Richard Luftig in Blood & Honey Review

    – W.F. Lantry and Richard Luftig have new works in the latest issue of Blood & Honey Review. Read Bill’s three poems, “Gacela of the Wren”, “Gacela of the Departure” and “Dance”; and Richard’s “Obbligato for Bass Fiddle”. – W.F. Lantry’s…

  • "Ugly women and grotesque males drawn by irreverent Hong Kong illustrators"

    Tore Cheung for “Jet” magazine. On picking his own name, Cheung says the Scandinavian Tore looks good in print and makes him think of how “for a while [he] just ‘tore’ up [his] work all the time.” Read the article…

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong and Anindita Sengupta in Pyrta

    – The Spring issue (March 2011) of Pyrta features three poems by Anindita Sengupta (“I am not part of your language”, “Auk” and “Evening”) and one poem (“Thirty-one Summers”) by Nicholas Y.B. Wong. Read the issue here. – See Nicholas…

  • J. A. Tyler in Emprise Review

    – J. A. Tyler’s short story “Kill Yourself (viii)” is now published in the 18th issue of Emprise Review. Read the piece here. – J.A. Tyler’s fiction was published in Issue #1 of Cha. –

  • "a virgin with no legs to leave me, no arms to hold me, no head to talk to me"

    1934 Magritte Le Viol 72×54 cm . The following is Susan Gubar’s interpretation of Magritte’s painting (above) in her article “Representing Pornography: Feminism, Criticism, and Depictions of Female Violation” (1987). Do you have a different take on the image? .…

  • What shouldn’t you be doing at 38?

    In One Day (2009), David Nicholls answers: “It would be inappropriate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging…

  • Ouyang Yu’s The English Class shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award 2011

    – Congratulations to Cha contributor Ouyang Yu! His novel The English Class is shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award 2011. Other nominees are Peter Carey, Stephen Daisley, Lisa Lang, Alex Miller and Kristel Thornell. You can learn more about the NSW Premier’s Award here. If…

  • Marc Vincenz’s poems on October Babies

    – Read Marc Vincenz’s poems “Electric Sari”, “The Mystical Art of Accounting”, “Citizen Julius Wong”, “Landloved”, “No Birds”, “Once and Then”, “Legs, Hands, Fingers”, “Scaling the Great Wall of Joy”,  “Building a Japanese Butterfly” and “Dinner at La Maison Bouche”,…