Category: Cyril Wong

  • {Written by Amanda Chan, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cyril Wong, This Side of Heaven, Epigram Books, 2020. 176 pgs. Fire is mesmerising in the way that flames flicker…

    [REVIEW] “Tales from Life and the Afterlife: Cyril Wong’s 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛” by Amanda Chan
  • 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…

    Cha’s Hawker Prize 2019 Nominations
  • We are very happy to announce that selected poems from the ten-year history of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (November 2007-October 2017) will be published in a special edition of the Hong Kong-based print poetry magazine, Voice & Verse, in February 2018.…

    Announcement: Collaboration with Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine
  • Arthur Leung, Daryl Yam and Cyril Wong The new issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is now available! Read Arthur Leung’s “Chicken Rice in Singapore” (a reinterpretation of Leung Ping-kwan’s Chinese poem), Daryl Yam’s stories “It’s Not Valid” and “Love Is A…

  • More information here.  – Cyril Wong’s poetry was published in issue#1 of Cha. –

  • – “You might also guess that I’ve never really been one for milestones. For me, the word is only one letter removed from millstones.”-Toh Hsien Min – Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (est. 2001), the first online independent literary periodical based in Singapore, turns 10! Remarkable!…

  • The October 2011 issue of  Asymptote is now live. It features Murakami, Milosz and Szirtes, Lydia Davis’s first Dutch translations, essays by Dale Peck, various Burmese poets, Piyush Daiya, primers on Croatian novels and Eileen Chang, their first English Poetry…

  • – Three Cha contributors have new works published in the April 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Jennifer Wong’s poem “The Find” and story “The Assistant”; Bernard Henrie’s poem “The Moon a Late Bus”; and O Thiam Chin’s story…

  • = Ng Yi-Sheng’s poem “How Buildings Make Love” and Cyril Wong’s “Eclipse” are now published in The Substation Love-Letters Project. Learn more about the project here.  – Ng Yi-Sheng’s poetry was published in issue #8 of Cha. Cyril Wong’s poetry has been published…

  • Cyril Wong’s single poem Satori Blues is available now from Books Actually and Select Books in Singapore, and Collected Works in Melbourne, Australia. More information at www.cyrilwong.org Cyril Wong’s poetry has been published in issue#1 of Cha. ==

  • BOOKSTORE LAUNCH OF GASPP: A GAY ANTHOLOGY OF SINGAPORE POETRY AND PROSE 3-4pm, Birds & Co, Orchard Cineleisure #03-05A http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159379880764684 They are expecting to feature readings with Ovidia Yu, X’Ho, Lee Yew Leong and Cyril Wong.– Ng Yi-Sheng’s poetry was…

  • Several Cha contributors have new works published in the latest issue (October 2010) of Mascara Literary Review. Read Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s three poems “Rendez-vous at Pont des Arts”, “Fragile” and “My Grandmother Waters the Moon”; Cyril Wong’s three poems “School Bus”,…

  • GASPP: a Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose is an anthology of writing by queer Singapore writers, co-edited by Ng Yi-Sheng with Dominic Chua, Jasmine Seah and Irene Oh. The book features works by several Cha contributors including Cyril Wong, Lee Yew…

  • Read Jason Lee’s poems “Kinabatangan” and “Rafflesia“; Yew Leong Lee’s essay “I’ll Tell You One Day“; and Cyril Wong’s “The Trouble with Billy Collins” in the July 2010 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. – Toh Hsien Min comments on…

  • CYRIL WONG’s latest poetry collection, Oneiros, is now first available from the Firstfruits website. Responses to the Book: “Cyril Wong’s dreamscapes carry within them a great haunting of shift and change, grief and loss. People, places, loved ones, family and…

  • The April 2010 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is now live and Cha contributors Cyril Wong, Toh Hsien Min and Wena Poon have works in it. Read Cyril’s poems “Fire” and “Something“; Hsien Min’s review of David Oliveria’ A…

  • Photo by Alex Pander Cyril Wong speaks to SCMP’s Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop about his new and first book of short stories, Let Me Tell You About That Night, Strange Tales. The article, published on Sunday 18 October 2009, is now available…

  • Come and join the Singapore Writers’ Festival this year and meet Cha contributors Alvin Pang, Cyril Wong, Daren Shiau, Leung Ping-kwan, Ng Yi-Sheng and O Thiam Chin. Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 of Cha. Cyril Wong’s…

  • The fifth issue of Mascara Literary Review (editors: Boey Kim Cheng and Michelle Cahill) is now live. Read a fine selection of poetry here. Cha contributors Michelle Cahill and Cyril Wong (here and here) also have review articles published in…

  • Asian Cha contributors Arthur Leung, Cyril Wong and Lee Yew Leong each has poems published in the April 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Arthur’s poems “Rumours” and “Mahjong Table Conversation“, Cyril’s “Landscape” and Yew Leong’s “Stopped Car”…