• Prashani Rambukwella wins the Gratiaen Prize 2009

    SEE HERE FOR SOME ARTCILES ON PRASHANI AND MYTHIL’S SECRET. – We are very delighted to announce that Cha contributor and our friend Prashani Rambukwella (pictured above), author of Mythil’s Secret, was awarded The Gratiaen Prize for Creative Writing in…

  • The launch of Anindita Sengupta’s CITY OF WATER

    This is a belated post but we want to congratulate Anindita on the publication and launch of City of Water! – Toto Funds the Artsis pleased to invite you to the launch of Anindita Sengupta’s first volume of poetry, City…

  • Divya Rajan reads at Chicago Public Library Poetry Fest

    Listen to Cha contributor Divya Rajan reads her poetry at the Chicago Public Library Poetry Fest here. The clip is about 2hrs and 14 minutes long and Divya can be found at the 29th minute. (Picture of Divya © CJ…

  • CHA contributors in Mascara Literary Review

    Issue #7 of Mascara Literary Review is now live and it features works by several Cha contributors. Read Anindita Sengupta’s three poems: “Entrophy” “Storm-chasing” and “We Left Bombay to Start Over”, Sushma Joshi’s fiction “Selling Peas and History Lessons”, and…

  • Prashani Rambukwella in Himal Southasian

    Cha contributor Prashani Rambukwella, whose book Mythil’s Secret has been shortlisted for The Gratiaen Prize 2009, is interviewed by Himal Southasian, ‘Southasia’s first and only regional news and analysis magazine’. You can read the article here.–An excerpt from Prashani Rambukwella’s…

  • Wordstorm 2010 – The Festival of Australasian Writing

    Visit the festival website for more information. Cha contributor O Thiam Chin is one of the participants. – O Thiam Chin’s short story “Pebbles” is in Issue #8 of Cha.

  • CHA contributors in QLRS

    The April 2010 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is now live and Cha contributors Cyril Wong, Toh Hsien Min and Wena Poon have works in it. Read Cyril’s poems “Fire” and “Something“; Hsien Min’s review of David Oliveria’ A…

  • Prashani Rambukwella shortlisted for The Gratiaen Prize 2009

    – Many congratulations to Cha contributor and our friend Prashani Rambukwella, whose book Mythil’s Secret is shortlisted for The Gratiaen Prize for Creative Writing in English (2009). The Gratiaen Prize was instituted by Michael Ondaatje, a joint-winner of the Booker…

  • one by one OUTLOUD 5 May

    –––– one by one – one person: one poem ~ story ~ song… – the following poets/writers/artists will perform– agnes lam akin jeje andy barker blair reeve brian mulcahy yuen che-hung christian johnson zheng danyi dave mckirdy fanny-min becker chan…

  • Cha contributors O Thiam Chin and Wena Poon longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award

    –– Congratulations to Cha contributor O Thiam Chin, whose Never Been Better is longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award. – Congratulations to Cha contributor Wena Poon, whose The Proper Care of Foxes is longlisetd for the Frank O’Connor…