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  • Lyn Lifshin’s poems “I Was Four, in Dotted” and “Yellow Roses” are now published in the October 2010 issue of The Orange Room Review. – – Lyn Lifshin’s poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha. –…

  • Bob Bradshaw’s poem “Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962” is now published in The Orange Room Review. Read it here. – Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile.- –

  • Read the delicious “Hunger” issueof Branch Magazine,now hotly live. – – – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. Roberutsu’s artwork was published in issue #10 of Cha. –

  • Craig Santos Perez’s “From Postterrain: VIII” (p. 55) is now published in The Equalizer. You can download the PDF here. – – Craig Santos Perez’s review was been published in issue #9 of Cha. – –

  • Congratulations to Nabina Das, whose poem “Redness” wins first prize of the UNISUN-Reliance poetry contest. You can read the poem on Nabina’s website. – – Nabina Das’s poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha. – –

  • “Hong Kong Lacks Culture My Ass” is a new blog about Hong Kong culture. The blog owner is ‘Anton Chigurh’, an American living in the city. There is not much on the site yet but we liked what ‘Chigurh’ writes…

  • Congratulations to Greg Santos whose poem “Eyewear” wins the inaugural Eyewear Prize for Poetry. Read Greg’s poem and other winning pieces here. – – Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. – –

  • Cha is nominating David William Hill’s short story “Stone Fruit”, published in Issue #12 of the journal, for The Micro Award 2011. Congratulations and good luck!–Also see our Best of the Web, Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations this…

  • Rocco De Giacomo’s poem “Atonement”, from his book Leaning Into the Mountain (fooliar press, 2006), is now published on Tower Poetry. – – Rocco De Giacomo’s poems were published inissue #4 and issue #10 of Cha. – –

  • Nabina Das’s poem “Storytelling” is featured on Asia Writes. Read it here. – – Nabina Das’s poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha. – –

  • Maurice Oliver’s poem “Muse Sick” is published in the Spring 2010 issue of The Furnace Review. – – Maurice Oliver’s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha. – –

  • A selection of Maurice Oliver’s poems can be found on East Village Poetry. Read the poems here. – – Maurice Oliver’s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha. – –

  • Issue Forty Fifth of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (ed. Maurice Oliver) is now online. Read poetry by Cath Vidler, Tasha Klein, Bill Dorris, Crag Hill, Sirrus Poe, Gary Wlikens, Richard Lopez, and Suzie Q. Smith. Also included in this issue is…

  • Ngugi wa Thiong’O, Decolonizing the Mind, p.6: Was it literature about Africa [Asia] or about the African [Asian] experience? Was it literature written by Africans [Asians]? What about a non-African [non-Asian] who wrote about Africa [Asia]: did his work qualify…

  • Prashani Rambukwella, whose book Mythil’s Secrets won the prestigious Gratiaen Award (2009), will be appearing in the Galle Literary Festival in January 2011. Other participants include Tash Aw, Tan Twan Eng and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, among many others.…

  • Read a selection of poems by Lyn Lifshin in Danse Macabre here. ––Lyn Lifshin’s poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha.––

  • Please note the following launch events for Xu Xi‘s new novel Habit of a Foreign Sky (a finalist of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize) in Hong Kong in October 2010: Monday October 4 at 4:30 pm: City University of…

  • There is a short interview with Robert Raymer in Life & Style. Read the article here. – – Robert Raymer’s short story “On Fridays” was published in Issue #12 of Cha. – –

  • A short piece from Robert Raymer’s Tropical Affairs , “The Madwoman in a Restaurant”, was published in Expat Alley, a website in South America. – – Robert Raymer’s short story “On Fridays” was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –…

  • Congratulations to Robert E. Wood, whose poem “Blue Mexico” is nominated by Blue Fifth Review for inclusion in Best of the Net 2010. = – Robert E. Wood’s poetry was published in Issue #11 of Cha. – –

  • Congratulations to Luisa A. Igloria, whose poem “Contingency” is nominated by Lantern Review for inclusion in Best of the Net 2010. – – Luisa A. Igloria’s poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 of Cha. – –

  • Congratulations to O Thiam Chin, whose short story “Brother” is nominated by Asia Writes for inclusion in Best of the Net 2010. = = O Thiam Chin’s short story “Pebbles” was published in Issue #8 of Cha. = =

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  • O Thiam Chin’s Under the Sun (MPH Publishing) is now published. His Never Been Better, reviewed in Cha, was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award 2010. Learn more about Under the Sun here. – – O Thiam Chin’s…

  • ADOPTIONTALK, a website that talks about “adoption, birth parents, abandonment, race, and China”, among other subjects, has a post on Cha contributor Tai Dong Huai’s fiction. In it, “A Cup of Fine Tea: Tai Dong Huai’s “New Baby””, written by…

  • Cha makes an appearance on The Lonely Comma, a blog dedicated to Asian American authors and writers. See the post here. – – – –

  • Writers anywhere in the world born in the generation 1940 – 1960 are encouraged to submit their work to A World Anthology of Poetry and Prose. This notice goes out specifically to Chinese or persons of part Chinese ancestry whose…

  • There’s an article in New Straits Times about a character invented by Robert Raymer in his short story “Neighbours”. Robert wrote on his blog: After meeting the students in KL who were studying my short story “Neighbours” in SPM Literature,…

  • Ten poems by Nicholas Y.B. Wong are now published in this – a literary webzine. They are “The God Box”, “Kiss a Door“, “Skydive“, “What Would You Do When You Say You Love“, “Walker“, “Madness at Castle Peak“, “One of…