• sleep furiously

    –The Welsh documentary sleep furiously1 by Gideon Koppel records a year of life in Trefeurig, a small farming community in Wales. The film does not have an obvious structure or narrative. But in its formless way, it documents the slow…

  • Solidarity in Literature without Borders: 2010 Philippine PEN Congress

    Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists) presents Solidarity in Literature without Borders: 2010 Philippine PEN Congress December 4-5, 2010 Celebrity Ballroom, Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines The programme is here [PDF]. – –

  • Cha contributors at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2010

    Cha contributors Rumjhum Biswas, Anindita Sengupta and Sridala Swami will be appearing at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2010, a 3-day multi-lingual event to be held in Hyderabad on Dec 10-12, 2010. Learn more about the festival here.  – – Rumjhum Biswas’s…

  • Jee Leong Koh’s poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize

    Congratulations to Jee Leong Koh — his poem “Childhood Punishments” has been nominated by The Shit Creek Review for a Pushcart Prize. Read the poem here. ––Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.––

  • An interview with Melody Gee

    – An interview with Melody S. Gee by Kenny Tanemura is published in Sycamore Review.earlier this month (4th November, 2010) Read “Building the book & avoiding the unavoidable: An interview with Melody Gee” here. – – Melody S. Gee’s poem “Giving”…

  • You are erased

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  • District 9

    This post was originally written on 6th September, 2009. District 9 (official website: www.d-9.com) is about the problems posed by the unexpected arrival of an alien spaceship above Johannesburg, South Africa. When humans board the aliens’ hovering ship (which reminds…

  • Introducing "Writing the City"

    – Writing the City is a cultural and creative pace for students and alumni from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong to publish their creative pieces including poetry, short fiction, pictures, photo essays and other…

  • "Let x equal the quantity or quantities of x"

    – Reading Eddie’s poem “Country” reminded me of the following from the film Proof (2005), adapted from David Auburn’s play (2001).   Let X equal the quantity or quantities of X. Let X equal the cold. It is cold in…

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong wins Sentinel Literary Quarterly poetry prize

    Huge congratulations to Nicholas Y.B. Wong! His poem “Getting Married with Gertrude Stein” is awarded the first prize of Sentinel Literary Quarterly poetry competition (October, 2010), winning £150. Another poem, “Teaching English Poetry in Hong Kong” is chosen as a…