• An Education

    This post was originally posted on 31st October, 2009. Tonight, we went to watch the terrific An Education, starring Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard. The film was adapted by Nick Hornby from Lynn Barber’s memoir, originally published in Granta (maybe…

  • How did you select Yibing Huang to be your guest editor? And why?

    How did you select Yibing Huang to be your guest editor? And why? I first met Yibing through a mutual friend of ours, Professor Russell Leong. I was taking an informal creative writing class with Russell, and he introduced the…

  • One Imperative in Tokyo

    One Imperative is on display in Shinjuku Station, Tokyo. The station is the world’s busiest in terms of people. – Three of my poems appear in this displayed issue of One Imperative. You can view/read the issue — themed “Play” —…

  • Ankur Agarwal reads (13 November, 2010)

    Click the image to enlarge Ankur Agarwal will be reading a few of his  poems on Saturday 13 November, at Jaaga, as part of the Poetry Across Borders project (poets reading from Bangalore and Berlin this time). Venue: Jaaga Creative…

  • Phill Provance reads (13th November 2010)

    Phill Provance will be giving a poetry reading on Saturday 13th November, 2010 at 7 p.m. at Shelton Walsmith’s stuido. More information here. – Phill Provance’s poems were published in issue #12 of Cha. His poem “St. Petersberg Has Many Churches”…

  • Bookstore Launch of GASPP, Sunday 21 Nov, 3pm

    BOOKSTORE LAUNCH OF GASPP: A GAY ANTHOLOGY OF SINGAPORE POETRY AND PROSE 3-4pm, Birds & Co, Orchard Cineleisure #03-05A http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159379880764684 They are expecting to feature readings with Ovidia Yu, X’Ho, Lee Yew Leong and Cyril Wong.– Ng Yi-Sheng’s poetry was…

  • Stevenson

    Google celebrates the 160th birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson.––

  • Cha is in The China Daily

    Back in August (Sunday 29th August), I was contacted by China Daily. Today, finally, there is an article on Cha in the paper [Link]. China Daily is the only official English-language national newspaper in China. The article also appears in their US Edition.…

  • What do you look for first in a piece of fiction? What about poetry?

    What do you look for first in a piece of fiction? What about poetry? The first and last thing we look for in either category is quality. There is really no template. Indeed, most of the pieces that seem to…

  • I know that you created Cha because Hong Kong lacked an outlet for writers, can you tell me your initial thoughts and how the magazine was formed?

    I know that you created Cha because Hong Kong lacked an outlet for writers, can you tell me your initial thoughts and how the magazine was formed? I won’t say that Hong Kong ‘lacks’ an outlet for writers. A lot…