Category: Issue 12

  • Congratulations to Cha contributor Jennifer Wong; her poetry collection is longlisted for the Proverse Prize 2010. More information about the prize here. – Jennifer’s poem “Companions” was published in the first anniversary issue of Cha and nominated for inclusion in…

  • Cha is a big fan of Mary Lee. We have previously published her photography three times: “Tibet” in Issue 1, “Teipei” in Issue 2 and “Japan” in Issue 4. Recently, Mary directed an important and meaningful Hong Kong photobook project…

  • Helle Annette Slutz’s poem “Another City Which You Leave” was the first poem accepted for publication in the September 2010 issue of Cha. It begins with a quote from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: For those who pass it without entering,…

  • Inara Cedrins edited the Chinese Feature for Drunken Boat in 2006 and her poems “Wintering” and “Towards Borders” were published in the February 2009 issue of Cha. In the September 2010 issue, we are offered the opportunity to publish Inara’s…

  • “Harvest” and “After Ten Years In America, My Grandmother Decides to Celebrate Tet”, two strong, vivid and memorable poems by Kim-An Lieberman, will be featured in the September 2010 issue of Cha. “Harvest” contains an image of a girl collecting…

  • Marco Yan is an important writer for Cha: his short story “Market Guy” appeared in our début edition. We are very delighted to say that his new poem “Remembrance” will be featured in the September 2010 issue. All three editors…

  • Cover art by Alvin Pang The twelve issue of Cha will go live in the second half of September. Royston Tester (Guest Editor) lent us his expertise and read the poetry and prose submissions with us, while Eddie Tay (Reviews…

  • Do you remember Mark Stringer’s “City Lantern”, which was published in the February 2008 issue of Cha? The photograph was subsequently reprinted in Issue 22 of BluePrintReview, on the editor Dorothee Lang’s request. In the grainy image, the lonely lantern…

  • If your lover wants to be so close to you, so close, closer than your skin, how will you respond? Annie Zaidi’s poem “Diaphragm”, which will be published in the September 2010 issue of Cha, explores this topic, and the…

  • It was love at first read. We will be publishing Phill Provance’s “St. Petersburg Has Many Churches”, which will also appear in Danse Macabre, in the September 2010 issue of Cha. Our guest editor commented, ‘the playfulness of the poem…

  • Many of you know Xu Zhimo (1897-1931), one of the most distinguished Chinese poets in the twentieth century. In the September 2010 issue of Cha, Clara Hsu, whose poem “Pigeon Cage Blues” was published by us in 2008, will be…

  • Photo of Yip © Benny Thong Fact 1: Yip Wai Shan knows us very well. Fact 2: Her picture (above) is awesome. Fact 3: Her photography sequence “Dry” will appear in the September 2010 Issue of Cha. Fact 4: These…