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Thank you to all the poets who sent work to Cha‘s “Void” Poetry contest. Judges Daryl Yam and Tammy Ho Lai-Ming have selected the following eight poems as the finalists. Please scroll down to read the poets’ biographies and their…
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Venice, June 2013 ..Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women (Selected) The editorial for the Sixth Anniversary Issue of Cha i. There was a coffee house not too far from the university library (but far enough to deter most students from taking…
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due out in September 2014. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue #25, scheduled for publication in September 2014. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can…
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Reconciliation A Cha Poetry contest This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems on the theme of “Reconciliation”. ::: UPDATE: Read the winning poems HERE. ::: Judges: Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a Hong…
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VOID – SHORTLIST A Cha Poetry contest We have now selected the fifteen short-listed poems for Cha‘s “Void” poetry contest. The finalists will be announced when the March 2014 issue of the journal (the belated Sixth Anniversary Issue) goes live. …
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due out in June 2014. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue # 24, scheduled for publication in June 2014. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines…
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The End of Summer, oil on canvas, 142 x 205 cm (by Mia Funk) We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work, selected from the September 2012, March 2013, and June 2012 issues of Cha, have been…
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– Nominate your favourite Cha story published in 2012. The Million Writers Award for the year’s best online short fiction is now inviting nominations from readers, writers, and editors. The award is for any short story of at least 1,000…
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– Click HERE to read the June 2013 issue of Cha. The June 2013 issue of Cha is now available. We want to thank guest editors Jason Eng Hun Lee (poetry) and Cha‘s Consulting Editor Reid Mitchell (prose) for reading…
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due out in March 2014. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for the Sixth Anniversary Issue, scheduled for publication in March 2014. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission…
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[Click image to enlarge] In Ways of Seeing, John Berger answers: When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can…
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In Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence (1997), Geoff Dyer answers: I also thought of knocking on the door of our old house, explaining that I was born there, that I lived there until I was eleven,…
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VOID A Cha Poetry contest NEW: Shortlist (Friday 24 January 2014)NEW: Winners announced (Saturday 29 March 2014) This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems on the theme of “Void”. Judges: Tammy Ho…
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for “The Ancient Asia Issue,” an edition of the journal devoted exclusively to work from and about Asia before the mid-nineteenth century. From the beginning of the twentieth century, ancient Asia…
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Geoff Dyer When Geoff Dyer was living in Paris, John Berger sent him a package containing four lamb chops, bloody and ‘totally fresh’, through the post. Dyer believed that’s a token to both Berger’s generosity and the marvellous efficiency of the…
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– Click HERE to read the March 2013 issue of Cha. The March 2013 issue of Cha is now available. We want to thank guest editors Marc Vincenz (poetry) and Kaitlin Solimine (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would also…
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Hula Hooping (First published in Berfrois on 28 February, 2013.) . . “First snowfall of the year, Issy-Les-Moulineaux” by Oliver Farry . I don’t want to be like a fruit that is small, round and has a bland taste. I like being written…
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There will be a launch reading for the March 2013 issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal at AWP. The event will be hosted by guest editors Kaitlin Solimine and Marc Vincenz and co-hosted by the Fairbank Center forChinese Studies at Harvard University. Feature readings by…
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Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi A new issue of Mascara Literary Review, edited by Michelle Cahill, is out. It features poetry by Mani Rao and Grace Chin, fiction by Ankur Agarawal and creative non-fiction by Sushma Joshi. || Mani…
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due out in May/June 2013. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue # 21, scheduled for publication in May/June 2013. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines…
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Nabina Das “Eyes”, a short story by Nabina Das, is now available in Open Road Review. A squall gets the power out. || Nabina Das’s poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha. ***** Reid Mitchell “Sea Shells”, a new poem by Reid…
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Cha is nominating Tom Mangione’s “People are Fundamental” and Angelo B. Ancheta’s “Eclipsed”, both published in Issue #19 of the journal, for The Micro Award 2012. Congratulations and good luck!– Also see our Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations this year. – –
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My friend: Hey, is there any way you could find out if there is a warrant for my arrest in the PRC? Me: Why do you think I have such high penetrating power? I am only an editor of a…
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We at Cha would like to announce our nominations for the 2012 Pushcart Prize: “Sonia Wants to Rent An Apartment” by José Manuel Sevilla (March 2012) “When I Was the Chinaman’s Granddaughter-In-Law” by Dena Rash Guzman (March 2012) “Winter Seclusion”…
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– Click HERE to read the November 2012 issue of Cha. The November 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Arthur Leung (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would also…
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this editorial was originally posted here | read the fifth anniversary issue of Cha here A Hundred Years of Karma Recently I’ve been riding the bus a lot—three hours a day, more or less. I spend one eighth of my time…
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My webmaster and I were working on the Fifth Anniversary Issue of Cha and out of the blue he asked me: “Tammy, are you an android?” Webmaster: You must be an android. There are subtle clues everywhere! Me: For example?…

