Category: CHA
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal invites suggestions of titles—books, films, or other cultural productions—for review or feature in the journal during the second half of the year and into 2026. Please send short pitches (no more than 150 words) that…
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We will be pausing the publication of new pieces on our websites until Monday 25 November 2024. During this period, all content on our three platforms (asiancha | chajournal | hkprotesting) will remain fully accessible for your perusal. While new…
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Banner art by Christopher Leibow, featured in the June 2017 issue of Cha.
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📁 Click HERE to read the 54 selected “JUST ANOTHER DAY” entries Cha: An Asian Literary Journal invites one-off submissions of 300-500 word reflections written on 4 June 2023 from writers residing anywhere in the world, to be selected for…
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📁 XI XI—CAN WE SAY: Entries 📁 Xi Xi and Jennifer Feeley
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We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following three poems for the 2021 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry. Results will be announced in January 2022. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! “Flowers” by Ysabelle Cheung…
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📁 Visit Auditory Cortex 2021-2023to read and listen to the selected poemsas well as read the poets’ reflections. We are currently accepting submissions for the Auditory Cortex 2021-2023 special feature devoted entirely to Asian voices. Selected poems are published on…
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[Editors’ note: Go to “Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On”, which took place on 3 June 2019.] [Selected Works] [Andy’s biography] [Nelly Sachs’s “Corus of Orphans”] [Susan’s biography] [Yueran Zhang’s “The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square” | Guo Ting’s…
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NOTE: The “Writing Malaysia” issue is postponed untill further notice. We are happy to announce that in June 2020 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing Malaysia” issue. Submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art are accepted between 15 October…
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樹窿太平洋行動 Tree Hollow Pacific Campaign [NOTE: If you would like your submissions to also be considered for publication in Cha, please specify so in your email.] Origin . A Hong Kong poet on the UC Berkeley campus started distributing flash…
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In September 2014 and September 2016, we published special features on the Umbrella Movement in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. This year, again, we will be publishing a feature on the movement, five years on. We are looking for poetry,…
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NOTE: WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS. (Thursday 3 June 2021) We are happy to announce that we are now accepting submissions for Issue 46—Twelfth Anniversary Issue—of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, scheduled for publication in December 2019. Submissions of…
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NOTE: We are still accepting submissions of photography & art for the “Tiananmen Thirty Years On” feature. Deadline: Monday 20 May 2019. 4 June 2019 will mark thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, when the Chinese government…
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Due to unforeseen reasons, the “Writing Vietnam” issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, originally scheduled for publication in September 2019, will be postponed to 2021. In light of this change, below is our new publication plan for the rest…
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 45, rescheduled for publication in August 2019. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 31…
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We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following three poems for the Hawker Prize 2019. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! “Mama Was Reciting from the Book of Revelation” by Jeffrey B. Javier (“Writing the…
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4 June 2019 will mark thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, when the Chinese government crushed the nascent democracy movement led by students and workers. The ensuing decades have brought tumultuous changes to the culture, politics,…
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We are very excited to announce that, for the first time, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal will be publishing a special feature devoted entirely to Asian voices. The feature, to be published in June 2019, is entitled “Auditory Cortex”, and it…
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::::: We have extended the period of submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and photography & art to the “Writing Macau” issue to 31 January 2019. ::::: We are very pleased to announce that in April 2019 Cha will be publishing a…
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The “Writing Singapore” issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal will be available in October 2018. Joshua Ip, one of the two guest editors who read the submissions with us, has written the following editorial. Also read Eddie Tay’s editorial…
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The “Writing Singapore” issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal will be available in October 2018. Eddie Tay, one of the two guest editors who read the submissions with us, has written the following editorial. Also read Joshua Ip’s editorial…
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We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following pieces for the 2018 Best of the Net Anthology. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! P O E T R Y “The Nature of a City” by…
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Toh Hsien Min (author) and Jacques Rancourt (translator), Dans Quel Sens Tombent Les Feuilles, Editions Caracteres, 2016. 134…
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One-Day Literary Writing Lodge in Hong Kong Voices (Saturday 15 December 2018) We are excited to announce that the Department of English Language and Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University is collaborating with the award-winning Cha: An Asian Literary Journal…
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We are happy to announce that we have nominated three poems, all from the March 2017 issue (Issue 35) of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, for inclusion in Best Indian Poetry 2018. Modelled after the famed Best American Poetry (BAP),…
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