• Call for Submissions: Trans-Scripts: an interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences

    – From the website of Trans-Scripts: Trans-Scripts – a new interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences based at the University of California, Irvine – invites graduate students to submit their work. The theme of the inaugural issue…

  • Nicholas Wong in amphibi.us

    Sometimes, I surprise myselfby walking too far … –from Nicholas Wong’s new poem, “Walker” – Nicholas’s “Walker” is nowpublished in amphibi.us. Read the rest of the poem here. – – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • From Indios Bravos to Filipinos: A History of The Philippines

    From Indios Bravos to Filipinos: A History of The PhilippinesAn Evening Discussion with LUIS H. FRANCIA, Author & Adjunct Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies, New York University. Moderated by Isabel Escoda, Filipino Journalist. – Wednesday, July 28, 2010Harcourt Room…

  • Todd Swift’s Experimental Sex Hospital

    Todd Swift‘s Experimental Sex Hospital (download the book for free here) is the ebook sequel to his critically acclaimed, Mainstream Love Hotel. Shadowing that previous work, the poems here deepen and lengthen the poet’s exploration of desire and devotion, and,…

  • Dim Sum by Zhang Er

    Picture from here Dim Sum –Zhang Er, translated from the Chinese by Bob Holman and Zhang Er– –Accidentally tossed together, doing the natural thing,unexpectedly he becomes an old acquaintance from another life:the little town at the edge of the rain…

  • The Man Asian Literary Prize 2010

    For Immediate Release Distinguished judging panel announced for Restructured Man Asian Literary Prize Hong Kong, 12 July 2010 – A panel of distinguished international critics and writers will judge the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. The judges are acclaimed novelist…

  • Robert E. Wood in Rose and Thorn Journal

    Robert E. Wood has three new poems in the Summer 2010 issue of The Rose and Thorn Journal. The poems are “New York Cartoon Dog”, “Shark Week” and “Gas”. Read them here. – – Robert E. Wood’s poetry was published…

  • Call for participants to form a panel on Creative Writing in Asia at the 15th English in Southeast Asia Conference (Macao)

    For those who are creative writers and educators, please contact Cha contributor and former guest editor Nicholas Y. B. Wong if you are interested in forming a panel with him on creative writing in Asia at The 15th English in…

  • Alison Wong’s As the Earth Turns Silver Shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

    Huge congratulations to Cha contributor Alison Wong! Her novel As the Earth Turns Silver has been shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2010 in the “Fiction” category. Cha published a review of As The Earth Turns Silver in November…

  • Delivering Newspapers by Bei Dao

    Delivering Newspapers–Bei Dao, translated from the Chinese by Eliot Weinberger and Iona Man-Cheong––Who believes in the mask’s weeping?who believes in the weeping nation?the nation has lost its memorymemory goes as far as this morning the newspaper boy sets out in…