• Concelebratory Shoehorn Review 43

    Issue Forty Three of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) is now online. Read poetry by Elisha Porta, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Rodney Koeneke, Les Wicks, Ken Gurney, Lisa Zaran, Michael Estabrook and Earl Wilcox. Also included in this issue is…

  • CHA contributors in QLRS

    Read Jason Lee’s poems “Kinabatangan” and “Rafflesia“; Yew Leong Lee’s essay “I’ll Tell You One Day“; and Cyril Wong’s “The Trouble with Billy Collins” in the July 2010 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. – Toh Hsien Min comments on…

  • Vote for O Thiam Chin

    Apart from being longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, O Thiam Chin’s Never Been Better (reviewed in Issue #10 of Cha), is also nominated for The Star Readers’ Choice Awards 2010. You can cast your vote for O…

  • Jee Leong Koh in The Shit Creek Review

    Jee Leong Koh has several new poems published in Issue 12 of The Shit Creek Review. Read “Childhood Punishments“, “Approaching Thirtyseven“, “Chapter Six: Anal Sex“, “Ten Poems on the Plum Blossom” and “Digging in a bed of guilt, I grow…

  • O Thiam Chin in Asia Writes

    O Thiam Chin’s new short story, “The Other Woman”, is now featured on Asia Writes. Read it here. – – O Thiam Chin’s fiction was published in issue #8 of Cha. – –

  • Upcoming Events at City University Hong Kong

    The following lectures and readings at City University Hong Kong in Kowloon Tong will be open to the public during the week long MFA summer residency program: Sessions open to the public (7:30 – 9:00 pm in LT7 unless otherwise…

  • Bad English by Ouyang Yu

    Picture from here – – Bad English –by Ouyang Yu – – Teaching English in ChinaThe old professor can’t helpThe fact that his hair is turning grey An email letter leaves himUpset for days without knowing whyThat begins with this:…

  • Luisa A. Igloria in From The Fishouse

    Cha contributor Luisa A. Igloria has some poems featured in From The Fishouse. Check them out here. ––Luisa A. Igloria’s poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 of Cha. –

  • Xu Xi Discusses Multilingual Heritage at the Hong Kong Book Fair July 2010

    “We were postmodern before the term was invented. This is what I like most about Hong Kong.”“We talk about the great Chinese novel, the great Russian novel, the great British or American novel, … to even put ‘great’ in front…

  • Ivy Alvarez in The Nepotist

    Read Ivy Alvarez’s three Spain poems, “Phrases”, “Lemon flowers, dama de noche” and “En las montañas”, freshly published in The Nepotist. – – Ivy Alvarez’s poetry was published in issue #7 of Cha – –