Category: CHA

  • –– due out in June 2012. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its June 2012 issue (Issue # 17). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can…

  • Also see Part I.We at Cha would like to announce our nominations for the 2012 Pushcart Prize: John McKernan, “We Used Chalk” (Issue #15, November 2011).W.F. Lantry, “Silk Road” (Issue #15, November 2011). Nicholas Y.B. Wong, “Panda, Macao, Gondolas” (Issue…

  • Also see Part II.We at Cha would like to announce our nominations for the 2012 Pushcart Prize:  Divya Rajan, “Ode to Poetry” (Issue #13, February 2011). Sumana Roy, “Love: Made in China” (Issue #14, July 2011). Eleanor Goodman, “Sanctum” (Issue…

  • – DEADLINE: 15 December, 2011. Midnight, wherever you are. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its February/March 2012 issue (Issue # 16). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration.…

  • The poetry in the new issue of Cha is now available in a booklet. You can download it here. – –

  • Click HERE to read the February 2011 issue of Cha. The February 2011 issue of Cha has now been launched. We would like to thank Arthur Leung (poetry) and Reid Mitchell (prose) for returning to the post of guest editors…

  • originally posted here When You Live with a Poet When you live with a poet, you know exactly which three-year-old work she means when she asks, “Did you like the enjambment in the second stanza?” When you live with a…

  • Cover artist: Annysa Ng – –In Issue #13 of Cha, due out at the end of February 2011, we have: –15 poems by 12 poets | 5 short stories | Works by 4 artists/photographers | 1 “lost tea” | 1 interview with graphic novelists…

  • – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its November 2011 issue (Issue #15). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 15 September, 2011.…

  • – Henry W. Leung, reviewer for Lantern Review, has written an extensive review of the current edition of Cha (Issue #12); the review is now available on the LR blog. Henry emphasises, among other things, the Asian-themed poetry (‘Most of the…

  • We are very pleased to announce Cha‘s nominations for the Pushcart Prize 2011. The sixth nominee was selected based on readers’ voting through email and on this blog.  1) Eddie Tay, “Night Thoughts” Read an analysis of this poem. (Issue…

  • – DEADLINE: 15 December, 2010. Midnight, wherever you are. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its February 2011 issue (Issue 13). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission…

  • “Bones” by Rumjhum Biswas, published in the twelve issue of Cha, is singled out by Vouched. Read the post here. – –

  • Asia Book News is an online newsletter “looking at Asia’s publishing industry as well as international publishing news from the Asian perspective”. In a recent post, “Poetry on the screen, Asian Cha no. 12′, two poems from the new issue…

  • We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work have been nominated by Cha for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010, published by Sundress Publications. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! – – Poetry =Rosanna…

  • Please note that we are no longer accepting submissions for “The China Issue”. We are, however, accepting works for the Fourth Anniversary Issue. See here. [Read the Chinese versions here or download the English call PDF here.] Cha: An Asian Literary…

  • – – – – Cover art by Roberutsu — [Click the image to enlarge or download the article [pdf].] – –

  • Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the first Hong Kong-based online literary publication, is now calling for submissions for its May 2010 issue. Please send in poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found…

  • Cha is happy to announce that we have decided to nominate the following pieces of work for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2009, published by Sundress Publications. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! Poems nominated by Cha:…