• The 5th issue of Press 1 (Co-editor: Arlene Ang) is now live. It features visual artistry of Héctor Pineda García; poetry by Jillian Bledsoe, Allan Peterson, Karin Randolph, Paul Siegell, Rina Terry, David Michael Wolach, and Changming Yuan; fiction by…

  • Issue #21 of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) is now online. Read poetry by Joseph Harrington, A. E. Stallings, Adam Clay, John Tranter, Leonard J. Cirino, Paul Guest, Rachel Custer, and Victoria Chang. Also included in this issue is…

  • Arthur Leung’s poem, “What the Pig Mama Says”, wins the third prize of £500 in the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition. Read Arthur Leung’s Cha profile here.––

  • Robert Abel‘s review of Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma is now published in Asian Review of Books (2 August 2008). Robert also has a story forthcoming in the 50th anniversary of Massachusetts Review in October 2008. Robert Abel’s fiction has been…

  • Sridala Swami has three poems published in Pratilipi, a bi-lingual literary journal in English and Hindi. The three poems are “Red Chillies”, “Chimera”, and “Songlines: Six”. Sridala Swami‘s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.––

  • Mani Rao‘s long poem “Sol” (a set of 5 poems) is published in the The Long Poem Issue of Tinfish (Issue 18). About Tinfish 18: Tinfish 18 offers an issue devoted to the Long Poem. Contributors include Mani Rao, Alysha…

  • Todd Swift‘s awaited European debut collection is out from the Irish press Salmon Publishing, this November. Drawing on over two decades of published poetry, Seaway: New and Selected Poems, includes 80 poems, written between 1988 and 2008. Todd Swift’s poetry…

  • Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is mentioned in HK Magazine article “Writer’s Block” (25 July 2008).

  • Literature and art find online home Hong Kong Jeff Zroback and Tammy Ho came up with the idea of an online journal two years ago. They noticed that, despite anabundance of English online journals around the world, there were none…