• Picture courtesy of Gillian Sze – – Gillian brought 40 home-made poetry magnets with her to New York. Where did all the magnets go? See here to learn more. Are you lucky enough to find one? – – Gillian Sze…

  • Read Bob Bradshaw’s “Falling In Love With My Massage Therapist, A Contortionist” and Divya Rajan’s “Every Time You Played” in the new issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly. Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile. Divya Rajan’s poetry has been published in…

  • Cha had the opportunity to publish an excerpt from Prashani’s Mythil’s Secret in Issue #8 of the journal. Read it here. A review of the book is forthcoming in the May/June 2010 Issue of Cha as well.

  • Congratulations to Cha contributor Iain S. Baird, whose “Weird Flood Poker” wins the second place in the creative non-fiction category of the 2010 MWA Short Works Contest, organised by the Maryland Writers’ Association. Read more about MWA and the contest…

  • – – The first issue of The Walnut Literary Review, a bimonthly online literary journal devoted to writings and the visual arts, is now launched. It features creative works by a number of Cha contributors. Visit the review’s website and…

  • – Pictured: Prashani RambukwellaSource: The Sunday Times – Prashani Rambukwella’s children novel Mythil’s Secret was awarded the Gratiaen Prize 2009 at an award ceremony on Saturday 8 May, 2010. After the event, Prashani and Mythil’s Secret have been receiving wide…

  • In Washington, a local couple is searching for a bone marrow donor for their 4-year-old son. Because the parents are of different races, it is very difficult to find a match. And time is running out. The boy only has…

  • Alistair Noon’s new poem “Scandinavian Rock and the Ice Age Garden” is published in the fourth issue of Horizon Review. Author photo © Clare Jephcott –– Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat Partner:…

  • Mani Rao’s new poem “Geocity” is now published in the “Worry” issue of Holly Rose Review.–Mani Rao’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha. –

  • CYRIL WONG’s latest poetry collection, Oneiros, is now first available from the Firstfruits website. Responses to the Book: “Cyril Wong’s dreamscapes carry within them a great haunting of shift and change, grief and loss. People, places, loved ones, family and…