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Congratulations to Cha‘s Reviews Editor Eddie Tay! His bilingual poetry collection, The Mental Life of Cities (Chameleon Press) is named a winner of the 2012 Singapore Literature Prize! The 2012 Singapore Literature Prize recognises and honours Singaporean fiction books in each of…
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Thank you to all the writers who sent work to Cha‘s “Misinterpretation” Flash Fiction contest. Judges Reid Mitchell and Tammy Ho have selected the following three pieces as the finalists. Please scroll down to read the writers’ biographies and their commentaries on…
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Nicholas Y.B. Wong Nicholas Y.B. Wong‘s poem “Common” and its Chinese translation are now published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. || Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha’s profile here. ***** Marc Vincenz Marc Vincenz’s poem “Similar” can now…
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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min and Wendy Xu
Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min It is always exciting to read a new issue of QLRS. In the current issue, you can read “Our Greatest Years Have Passed Like Flowers”, a poem by Leanne Dunic;…
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Matthew Wong and Reid Mitchell The Fall 2012 issue of Unshod Quills is now available! Matthew Wong is the featured artist and , two new poems by Reid Mitchell, “LIT BY FUJIAN MOONLIGHT” and “WOMAN WITH A MAN’S HEART”, are included in the…
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Ricky Garni Ricky Garni‘s four new poems “Well If That’s The Way It Must Be, OK”, “Stroll by Numbers”, “Magic” and “1961” are now published in the latest edition of Softblow. || Ricky Garni’s poem “Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms” was published in Issue #16 of…
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[click the image to enlarge] Below is the shortlist for Cha‘s “Misinterpretation” Flash Fiction Contest. The three winning stories will be announced presently and published in the Fifth Anniversary Issue of Cha. Shortlisted entries: -“Eclipsed” by Angelo B. Ancheta-“My Bhua” by…
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– Click HERE to read the September 2012 issue of Cha. The September 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Ivy Alvarez (poetry) and Berit Ellingsen (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would also…
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originally posted here. In My Piecemeal Fashion With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. (Anne Sexton, “Mother and Jack and the Rain”, Collected Poems, p.…
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due out in March 2013. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue # 20, scheduled for publication in March 2013. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines…
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Iris A. Law Iris A. Law’s poem “Watching The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I think of my father” is now published in the September 2012 issue of The Collagist. ‘Shells and rough silica scrape at the catacombs of my ears’……
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Ivy Alvarez “Tumbling”, a poem by Ivy Alvarez, is now available in the August/September edition of Our Own Voice. || See Ivy Alvarez’s Cha profile. ***** Bob Bradshaw and Arjun Rajendran Bob Bradshaw’s poem “Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear” and Arjun Rajendran’s poem…
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Aditi Rao, Arjun Rajendran, Changming Yuan and Nabina Das Four Cha contributors have new works published in the August 2012 issue of The Four Quarters Magazine. Read Nabina Das‘s short story “Asking Anandi” (pp. 8-10), six poems by Aditi Rao (pp.…
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Alison Wong Alison Wong, a poet and novelist whose first novel As the Earth Turns Silver won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction and selected by the New Zealand Listener and the Sunday Star-Times as one of the…
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By Sam Nallen Copley © Amartey Golding Contemporary art often sets out to polarise: post-modernist deliberate abstraction and laboured attempts to push boundaries versus ethnocentric pious anti-avant-garde conservatism. Although we hit this stalemate many years ago, clichés of what exactly constitutes…
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Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong‘s poem “Prayer for the Newly Damned” is now published in the September/October 2012 issue of the American Poetry Review. || Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of…
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Ricky Garni Ricky Garni’s delightful poem “Wednesday”, first published in his collection The Eternal Journals of Crispy Flotilla, is now reprinted in the newly-designed Reprint Poetry. || Ricky Garni’s poem “Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms” was published in Issue #16 of Cha and creatively responded on…
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Patrick Donnelly Patrick Donnelly‘s “In Which I Explain Why I Set the Fire” and “Poem Contradicting the Previous Poem” are now published in Plume. Read the poems here. There was no fire. There was never any fire. || Patrick Donnelly and Stephen…
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THE PAST A Cha Poetry contest Winners announced on 23 September 2012. | Shortlist announced on 17 September 2012. This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems about “The Past”. Rules: Each poet can submit…
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THE HANDWRITTEN PROJECT Would you like to receive a handwritten card from Cha? Tell us a poem published in the journal that you like (from any of the issues) and we will write out some of its lines on a…
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We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work, selected from the July 2011, November 2011, March 2012 and June 2012 issues of Cha, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2012 (published…
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Wendy Xu “I WAS NOT EVEN BORN WHEN YOU BECAME AN EXPERT”, a poem co-written by Wendy Xu and Nick Sturm, is published in the Summer 2012 issue of Birdfeast. You know, we are all made of very small particles… || Wendy…
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Xu Xi, Kirpal Singh and Ira Sukrungruang Writers from all over the world are coming to Hong Kong for the City University MFA summer residency. If you are in the city this month (21-28 July), make sure to come to…
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Ricky Garni A ‘miniature’ by Ricky Garni titled “KO-AK” is now available in Ginger Piglet Magazine. As the man himself wisely writes, ‘That’s right. The sweet piglet is made of ginger.’ Don’t you want to smile to that? || Ricky Garni’s poetry was…
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Ricky Garni Two new poems by Ricky Garni, “i can’t believe it’s not marjoram” (p. 20) and “white out” (p. 21), are published in the Summer 2012 issue of em:me magazine. But it is more writing out than whiting out,…
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W.F. Lantry W.F. Lantry‘s short story “Arboretum” is published in the Summer 2012 issue of JMWW. || Read W.F. Lantry’s Cha profile. ***** Lee Herrick Two poems by Lee Herrick, “Van Gogh Writes to Gaugin” and “Focus Theory”, are published in…
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Click HERE to read the June 2012 issue of Cha. The June 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Divya Rajan (poetry) and Bob Bradshaw (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would…
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Fatty Goes to China By Royston Tester FICTION 150 PAGES, 5 X 7 FORMATS: TRADE PAPER TRADE PAPER, $19.95 (US $19.95) (CA $21.95) ISBN 9781926639482 RIGHTS: WOR We at Cha are very happy to announce that Associate Editor Royston Tester‘s second…
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