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The March 2012 issue of Cha was launched yesterday. What have people on Twitter said about it so far? @trueboattalks about this. @TightropeBooks talks about this. @sgliterature talks about this. @TCFSAcademic talks about this. @gardenofedits talks about this. @thebowlerhattalks about this. @careyz talks about this. @JAPak …
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Click HERE to read the March 2012 issue of Cha. The March 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Ankur Agarwal (poetry) and Mag Tan (prose) for reading the submissions with us.…
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originally posted here. Pillow Books [1] Things that quicken the heart/give you goose bumps—A Saturday morning latte, sprinkled with nutmeg. A cup of warm red wine infused with cinnamon. The wails of the neighbour’s cat—more human than feline. The alarm…
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-[click– due out in September 2012. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its September 2012 issue (Issue # 18). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can…
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Marc Vincenz’s Pull of the Gravitons David Chinot Marc Vincenz’s chapbook Pull of the Gravitons is nowavailable from Right Hand Pointing. Marc Vincenz is Swiss-British and was born in Hong Kong.His recent books include Upholding Half the Sky(MiPOesias, 2010) and The Propaganda Factory,or Speaking…
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– Three new poems by Ocean Vuong, “My Brother’s Ghost Returns”, “Beginning Again” and “Getting it Wrong”, are now published in Connotation Press. Read these poems and an interview with Ocean by Mari L’Esperance here.–Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published…
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= An interview with Berit Ellingsen about her story “What Girls Really Think” is now available at Pachydermini books. The Pachydermini books is “a series of miniature books (2.5” x 3”) which features stories 300-700 words long each in their very…
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– – Greg Santos‘s The Emperor’s Sofa is reviewed by Diana Salier at Banango. Read the review here. A review of Greg’s book is also forthcoming in the March 2012 issue of Cha. –– Greg Santos’s poem “Siem Reap, Cambodia”…
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By Sam Nallen Copley The birth of art Fifty-thousand years ago, a Neanderthal in what became south-eastern Spain took a seashell, coloured it with goethite and fashioned it into a necklace. Life was hard in the Middle Paleolithic Period, and if this…
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[click the image to enlarge] Description: This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished flash stories in English language on the theme of “Misinterpretation”. Rules: -Each writer can submit up to two pieces (no…
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By Tammy Ho and Jeff Zroback “Not To Be Reproduced (Portrait of Edward James)” (1937/) by Rene Magritte I will do as you ask even though I know that as the Turkish barber is shaving my sideburns with a razor, it…
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Hawai’i Review has announced the winners of the 2012 Ian MacMillan Writing Awards and congratulations to Nicholas YB Wong! His poem “Ode to Objects” won the second place in the poetry section. Read the judge’s and Nicholas’s comments on the…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Rangoon” is now up at October Babies. The poem was previously published in Right Hand Pointing. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. –
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Bryan Thao Worra‘s poem “Pen/Sword” is now published in the fourth issue of Lantern Review, edited by Iris A. Law and Mia Ayumi Malhotra. Read Bryan’s poem here and make sure to read the entire issue here! – Bryan Thao…
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– Four Cha contributors have new works published in the new issue of Muse India. ||| Sridala Swami’s “Twisitng”, “Today’s Featured Sorrow” and “Synaesthetic”||| Aditi Rao’s “The International Mango Festival”, “Sometimes, When Prayers are Shouted from Rooftops, the Echoes are the…
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– Yew Leong Lee’s translation of Liu Qingban’s “The One Who Picks Flowers” is published in the English insert (titled Peregrine) of the sixth issue of Chutzpah Magazine. Peregrine features English translations of selected pieces of the Chinese content. You can download…
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– Wendy Xu‘s poem “Several Altitudes of Not Talking” is published in the fifth issue of jellyfish. – Wendy Xu’s poetry will appear in the March 2012 issue of Cha. –
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– Nicholas YB Wong‘s first full collection of poetry, Cities of Sameness, published by Desperanto, is now available both in print and in Kindle version. Learn more about the book here. “Cities of Sameness is Nicholas YB Wong’s first candid…
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= John Biggs‘s new collection of short story, Towards Forgiveness: Sino-Tasmanian Stories from Two Islands (Ginninderra Press), is now published. Learn more about the book here. “The stories in Towards Forgiveness: Sino-Tasmanian Stories from Two Islands take place on two…
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The March 2012 Hong Kong Poetry OutLoud event will be devoted to a book launch: the debut of Canadian poet Kate Rogers’s second collection, City of Stairs, courtesy of Haven Books and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. For this…
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– Cha‘s Associate Editor Royston Tester‘s new book Fatty Goes to China (Tightrope Books) will be launched in Toronto, Canada, on 1 May 2012. The cover artist is Zhang Xiaogang. Cha has the privilege to feature the title story of the collection,…
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– Daniel Bowman Jr.‘s A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country (virtual artists collective) is now available for ordering. Learn more about the book here. You can also watch a trailer of the book based on the poem “The Wait” here.…
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– Three Cha contributors have new works in the February 2011 issue of foam:e. Read four poems by Michelle Cahill (“Rangzen”, “Nasreen”, “Lung-Ta” and “Fakir”); three poems by Kit Kelen (“poetry”, “the roughness and the fit of things” and “and when…
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– The March issue of Eye Socket Journal (editor: Maurice Oliver) is out. It includes poetry by Bill Dorris, D. Garcia-Wahl, Charlotte Matthews, and Earl Wilcox as well as photography of Maria Netsouski and art of Jacob Collins. Read the…
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– “This is an enormous issue of all female writers”, writes the editor of The Medulla Review, Jennifer Hollie Bowles. Indeed, all the writers featured in the 3:2 issue of her publication are female, including Lyn Lifshin, whose poems “July…
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– Samuel Arizpe’s “SYNCHRONICITY / SINCRONÍA”, “CODE-SWITCH CHOLO LOVE POEM” and “JACINTO” are published in the February issue of The Acentos Review. – Samuel Arizpe’s poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha. –
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– Gillian Sze will be reading her works on Saturday 17 March. From Gillian’s website: Saturday, March 17th at 7pm, come to D&Q to celebrate with graduate students of Études anglaises (Université de Montréal) as they launch their new literary chapbook, HEDGES.…
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Frederic Gable – According to Margaret Drabble in a Guardian article, the last stanza of Lord Byron‘s “Love and Death” contains ‘the greatest split infinitive in literature’. Byron wrote the poem in 1824, shortly before he died. The poem was…
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– Donna Miscolta’s short story “Fleeing Fat Allen: is published in the March issue of Conversations Across Borders. $2.00 per story or poem or $10 for the issue. Money raised from this issue goes to support VIDA: Women in Literary…
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– Congratulations to Elizabeth Weinberg! Her short story “The Earth That Stands Before Us”, first published in Issue #12 of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, has been named one of the finalists of Best of the Net 2011. See here…
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