• Hong Kong Poet Shines

    As mentioned earlier, Hong Kong poet Arthur Leung won third prize (£500) in the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for his poem “What the Pig Mama Says”. Leung is the only Asian who took home a prize from the…

  • Lost in the Fog by Lyn Lifshin

    Lyn Lifshin‘s poetry collection Lost in the Fog, to be published by Finishing Line Press, is now available for pre-order. The poems in Lost in the Fog are about the blue collar $13,000 weanling and $18,000 yearling that got his…

  • Reid Mitchell’s Poems in Softblow

    Reid Mitchell‘s poems “When She Asks Me Which One I Love The Best”, “Fox Spirits”, and “Spring Cannot Be Locked In A Garden” are now published in Softblow, a poetry ezine based in Singapore. Reid Mitchell’s poetry has been published…

  • Bias: Offensively Chinese/Australian by Ouyang Yu

    Bias: offensively Chinese/Australian (Otherland publication) is a collection of essays by Ouyang Yu. The book is divided into eight sections, with critical articles on Australian and Chinese poetry, Australian literature, writings in the Chinese diaspora, cultural and linguistic identities, literary…

  • John Biggs has a New Website

    John Biggs has a new Tasmanian website which provides information about his writings, travelogues, photography, and more. John Biggs’s poem “His Old Man Suit” was published in Issue #2 of Cha.–

  • The Girl in the Black Sweater by J. A. Tyler

    J. A. Tyler‘s new prose/poetry chapbook The Girl in the Black Sweater, published by Trainwreck Press, is now out. The Girl in the Black Sweater is a story of a man who imagines a perfect woman, an affair, all to…

  • Anindita Sengupta’s Poem in Quay Journal

    Anindita Sengupta‘s poem “Older” is now published in Quay: A Journal of the Arts (July-December 2008). Anindita Sengupta’s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

  • Press 1 (Volume 2, Number 2)

    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…

  • Concelebratory Shoehorn Review 21

    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 Wins Third Prize in Major International Competition

    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.––