• How is love like watercolour?

    Paolo and Francesca da Rimini  (1855) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti  Yesterday, when I was reading the following description of watercolour by Laura Cumming  in “New Review” (pp. 32-33), ‘love’ came to my mind, and I am still thinking about it: Watercolour has…

  • Cha contributors in The Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2011

    – Cha contributors Martin Alexander, Andy Barker, Viki Holmes, Wena Poon, Xu Xi, Louise Ho, Leung Ping-Kwan and our Reviews Editor Eddie Tay will be appearing in The Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2011 (8-18 March). More details can be found here.– Read Martin’s…

  • Greg Santos’s The Emperor’s Sofa (DC Books, 2010)

    – Greg Santos’s debut poetry collection, The Emperor’s Sofa is now available. Do also check out the following two book trailers:  http://vimeo.com/16674362 http://vimeo.com/19709603 Congratulations, Greg!  Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. –

  • 2011 Million Writers Award

    – If you liked a piece of fiction published in Cha in 2010, please consider nominating it for storySouth‘s 2011 Million Writers Award. Nominations can be made HERE.  In 2010, we published three issues and the following four short stories are…

  • Luisa A. Igloria in Quay

    Cover photo from the Powerhouse Museum, Tyrell Collection. No known copyright restrictions. – Luisa A. Igloria’s poem “Open Relationship” is now published in the latest issue of Quay: A Journal of the Arts. Read it here. – Luisa A. Igloria’s…

  • Did Emily Dickinson mean ‘need not’?

    I know parallel semantic and syntactic structure is a key feature in Emily Dickinson’s poetry. But reading the poem below, I was just thinking that ‘need not’1 might make more sense than ‘cannot’ in the first stanza. What do you think?  The…

  • W. F. Lantry in Blip Magazine

    – W. F. Lantry’s short story “Lacry-mosa” is now published in the Winter 2011 issue of BLIP Magazine. Read it here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –

  • Rumjhum Biswas in Every Day Poets

    – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Short-Tempered” is now featured at Every Day Poets. Read it here. – – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. – –

  • Lyn Lifshin in Sensitive Skin

    – Lyn Lifshin’s poems “Rose”, “If Those Blossoms Don’t Come”, “Letter”, “Haven’t You Ever Wanted to Use the Word Indigo?”, “Blue at the Table in the Hot Sun”, “Maho Bay, Near the Atrologer’s Table”, “July 23” and “The Black Silk…

  • Jennifer Wong in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

    – Jennifer Wong’s poetry sequence “The Last Monologues” is now published in the latest issue of Glass. Read it here.  – Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions” was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal. –