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  • Changming Yuan and Nicholas Y. B. Wong in Drunken Boat

    Read Changming Yuan’s “The Drawing of a Dragon” and Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s “Accentuation of R” in the fourteenth issue of Drunken Boat. – Changming Yuan’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • W.F. Lantry in Stepaway Magazine

    – W.F. Lantry’s short story “Promenade” is now published in the third issue of Stepaway Magazine. Read it here.– – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 and Issue #14 of Cha.  – –

  • Keith Brabender’s A Deserted Place

    Keith Brabender’s novel A Deserted Place is now out and is available on Amazon. A Deserted Place spans the years 1965 to 1995, covering Ronald Glenn’s maturation. He is attracted to the worlds of modern art and modern religion. The novel consists…

  • Vineet Kaul in Fleeting Magazine

    Vineet Kaul’s new poem “9 Reasons Love is Existential” is now featured in Fleeting Magazine. Read it here. – Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. – – ––

  • Gillian Sze in OffSIDE

    Gillian Sze has four new poems, “Nocturne”, “Dawning”, “The Thursday Man” and  “Memento”, in the September 2011 issue of OffSIDE. The publication is edited by Kate Hargreaves and is beautifully produced. There are two formats: Flash and PDF. Check it…

  • Bob Bradshaw, Vineet Kaul and Changming Yuan in Loch Raven Review

    – Cha contributors Bob Bradshaw, Vineet Kaul and Changming Yuan have new work published in the Summer 2011 issue of Loch Raven Review. Read Bob’s “Pluto”,Vineet’s “Beauty is the Beguile in the Eye of the Beholder” and “The Kit and…

  • "Stop, stop," she said. "No, go on; go on.["]

    –W.H. Mallock’s A Human Document (1892).The quotes below are from the shorter New York version.  “how deep in the mud must a woman walk before a man considers her progress interesting?” p. iv “you excite expectations, though you have not yet…

  • Nicolette Wong and A-Minor

    – Cha contributor Nicolette Wong is now the new editor of A-Minor Magazine. Learn more about the publication here. – Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. ––

  • Marc Vincenz in Pif Magazine

    – Marc Vincenz’s new poem “Unfathomable Mammals” is now published in Pif Magazine. Read it here. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. =–

  • Bob Bradshaw in Halfway Down the Stairs

    Halfway Down the Stairs has just published its September 2011 issue with the theme “We all fall down”. Bob Bradshaw has a new poem, “Riding Bulls”, featured in the issue. Read it here. – Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile. – –

  • Vineet Kaul in quantum poetry magazine

    – Vineet Kaul’s new poem “Eternity” is now published in quantum poetry magazine. In the poem, Vineet asks: ‘What shall through eternity live?’ Find out the answer here. — Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. – –

  • Jennifer Wong in Eyewear

    – Jennifer Wong’s poem “The Last Monologues” is now featured on Eyewear. Read it here.– Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions” was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.–– –

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong in The Adroit Journal

    – Three new poems by Nicholas Y.B. Wong, “Residues”, “My Japanese Robot” and “Attachment”, are now published in the Summer 2011 issue of The Adroit Journal. Find out how to download the issue by clicking “Current Issue” on their website.…

  • What is it we want really? For what end and how?

    Louis MacNeice in Autumn Journal (1939) answers: If it is something feasible, obtainable,…..Let us dream it now,And pray for a possible land…..Not of sleepwalkers, not of angry puppets,But where both hand and brain can understand…..The movements of our fellows;Where life is…

  • Jennifer Wong in Fox Chase Review

    – Read Jennifer Wong’s two new poems “Praiado Titan” and “Kwan Yin” in the September 2011 issue of Fox Chase Review. Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions” was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal. ==

  • One of the most famous beds in literature

    “Odysseus and Penelope” (1563) by Francesco Primaticcio From Homer’s Odyssey (Book 23): For built into the well-constructed bedstead is a great symbol which I made myselfwith no one else. A long-leaved olive bush was growing in the yard. It was…

  • Alistair Noon in Fleeting Magazine

    Alistair Noon’s new poem “Email from Coleridge in Beijing“ is now featured in Fleeting Magazine. Read it here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat Partner: An Email” is discussed here. – – ––

  • Sushma Joshi’s The End of the World | Get your copy in Hong Kong

    –– The End of the World by Cha contributor and Nepalese writer Sushma Joshi, is now available in Bookazine, HK. The fifty copies will arrive soon, so please go to the bookstore and book your copy before the stocks run out! This edition…

  • Why do Western vampires know kung fu?

    Kim Newman in Anno Dracula (2011 [1991]) answers: The Chinese movie tradition of the hopping vampire (jiang shi or geung si) is one of the odder strains of vampirism. I saw Ricky Lau’s Mr Vampire (1985) in London’s Chinatown before the…

  • What advantages attended shaving by night?

    James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) answers: A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections…

  • Marc Vincenz in Metazen

    – Two poems by Marc Vincenz, “Swimming Sheila in Psychopomp” and “The Uh-Huh”, are now published in Metazen. Read them here. –Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha.––

  • Fatty Goes to China: Royston Tester reads | 25 August, 2011

    Author Royston Tester Reading at the Opposite House Reading :: 7pm, Thursday, August 25, 2011 Venue :: Atrium of The Opposite House RSVP :: liyu@redgategallery.com [limited seating available to the first 40 guests] Where is ‘home’? Does an adopted one matter? Who’s adopting whom?…

  • Marc Vincenz in Fleeting

    Marc Vincenz’s new poem “While Facing the Urinal” is now featured in Fleeting Magazine. Read it here. –Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha.––

  • Which is the most famous elephant in literature?

    Do you know other famous elephants? –––– The Elephant is Slow to Mate by D.H. Lawrence The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate;he finds a female, they show no haste they waitfor the sympathy in their vast…

  • W.F. Lantry in Up the Staircase

    – W.F. Lantry’s poem “Dawn” is now published in the fourteenth issue of Up the Staircase. Read it here. – – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 and Issue #14 of Cha.  ––

  • Three ways to deal with an apocalypse

    Morning after the Flood  1928 From Carol Jacobs’s “Playing Jane Campion’s Piano: Politically” (1994): A Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a rabbi were walking along the beach together when a great angel with diaphanous wings approached them. He announced an apocalypse near at hand, telling them of…

  • Whispers on the Wind – A Reading of Russell C. Leong’s "Dreams and Dust"

    ––Guest post by reader Charles Kress. Kuan Yin What of the past that whispersSuch winds blow our words awayWhere have they goneMust we always start anewWill dead voices never cease – from “Blood Secrets” —–– Not long ago I wrote…

  • Everything is Illuminated

    Jonathan Safran Foer wrote his first novel Everything is Illuminated  (2002) when he was only 25.Some quotes from the book: 1. But first I am burdened to recite my good appearance. p. 3 2. … because unless I do not want…

  • Best of the Net 2011 Nominations

    ––We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work have been nominated by Cha for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2011, published by Sundress. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! –– –Poetry– =W.F. Lantry, “Rainbow Bridge”…

  • The Best Short Writing in the World 2011

    Fleeting Magazine has teamed up with Stack to find the best short writing in the world. They are looking for short stories (no more than 1500 words) and poetry (up to 40 lines). They are only interested in writing that…