Category: Media

  • NOTE: We have now reopened the submission window for PROSE entries (fiction and creative non-fiction) and PHOTOGRAPHY/ART until Friday 9 November 2018. If you would like your work considered for inclusion in our Eleventh Anniversary Issue (tentatively scheduled for publication…

    CHA—Call for Submissions—Issue 42 (Eleventh Anniversary Issue)—December 2018
  • [Header image, entitled “Kasuy”, is by Ricardo M. de Ungria.] File by genre file, they pulled into the computer station almost relentlessly. It was like being hemmed in skin to skin inside an MRT coach during the morning rush hour,…

    “The Pinoy Sensorium”—Asian Cha Issue 40 Editorial
  • We are happy to announce that in September 2018 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing Singapore” issue. Submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art are accepted between 1 April 2018 and 30 June 2018. If you have something original, bizarre, daring…

    Cha — Call for Submissions — “Writing Singapore” Issue (September 2018)
  • The 2018 “Backreading Hong Kong” symposium, co-organised by the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University and the literary journal Cha, will take place on Saturday 5 May 2018. We are particularly interested in papers that challenge existing interpretations of…

    Backreading Hong Kong 2018: Call for Papers
  • We are very excited to announce that in September 2019 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing Vietnam” issue. The issue will be guest edited by Nhã Thuyên and Kaitlin Rees, who will be reading the submissions with co-editors Tammy Ho…

    Announcement: Cha is to publish a “Writing Vietnam” issue in September 2019
  • We are happy to announce that in September 2018 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing Singapore” issue. The issue will be guest edited by Joshua Ip (poetry) and Eddie Tay (prose), who will be reading the submissions with co-editors Tammy Ho Lai-Ming and Jeff Zroback. Submissions of…

    Announcement: Cha is to publish a “Writing Singapore” issue in September 2018
  • We are happy to announce that in June 2018 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing the Philippines” issue. Submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art are accepted between 1 January 2018 and 31 March 2018. If you have something original to say…

    Cha — Call for Submissions — “Writing the Philippines” Issue (June 2018)
  • We are currently looking for books on or about the Philippines to review in the “Writing the Philippines” edition of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, scheduled for publication in June 2018. The guest editors of the issue are Ricardo M. de…

    “Writing the Philippines”—Calling for Books and Reviewers, and More
  • The first issue of Cha was published ten years ago in November 2007. It was also ten years after Hong Kong’s handover to China. These two facts are not coincidental. Since the beginning of Cha, I have completed my PhD…

    “Ontological Basis” – Asian Cha Issue 38 Editorial
  • Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 39, scheduled for publication in March 2018. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 31…

    Cha — Call for Submissions — Issue 39 (March 2018)
  • UPDATE (Sunday 22 April 2018): Please click here to see the list of winners and finalists. This contest, entitled “Auditory Cortex”, is run by the first and only Hong Kong-based English-language free-access online literary journal, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. The…

    Auditory Cortex: A Poetry Contest
  • Cha Reading Series takes the online journal out into the physical world. It brings together poets, writers, translators and artists who are in some way or other affiliated with Cha. Readings will take place in various impromptu locations across the city,…

    Announcing “Cha Reading Series”
  • As most readers of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal will know, 1 July 2017 will mark the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China. This year also happens to be the tenth anniversary of our publication. And so while…

    Cha — Call for Submissions — “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017)
  • . The “Writing Japan” Issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank James Shea and Kyoko Yoshida for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together ​the new edition. We would also like to thank…

    Issue #36 (“Writing Japan” Issue) of Cha is HERE.
  • One of the pleasures of putting together this issue was seeing the rich interpretation of our theme. “Writing Japan” is not simply a matter of a Japanese writer in Japan writing in Japanese for a Japanese audience. Its scope is…

    “On Writing Japan” – ASIAN CHA Issue 36 Editorial
  • Issue 35 of Cha is now available. We would like to thank Ankur Agarwal (poetry) and Michael Gray (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together the new edition. We would also like to thank Eddie Tay…

    Issue #35 of Cha is HERE.
  •   Jo Shapcott’s poem “Myself Photographed” begins with an affirmative statement: “So this is me.” This line draws our attention to the subject of the photograph, although it does so with a slightly wry, or perhaps uncertain, tone provided by…

    “A Secret About a Secret About a Secret” – ASIAN CHA Issue 35 Editorial
  • 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
  • We are pleased to announce that Melissa De Silva’s “Meeting with the Sea”, first published in the June 2016 issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, is a finalist of Best of the Net 2016. You can read “Meeting with…

    Melissa De Silva’s “Meeting with the Sea” is a finalist in Best of the Net 2016
  • Writers Resist in Hong Kong | Sunday 15 January 2017 Tammy Ho Lai-Ming Good afternoon to you all and thank you for coming. This reading, co-organised by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, is part of…

    #WRITERSRESIST in Hong Kong — Introduction
  • Find out more about #WRITERSRESIST in Hong Kong by clicking here. Runyu Huang 黃潤宇,青年寫作者,江蘇無錫人,現於香港就讀。寫詩寫文,作品偶見於香港媒體、藝文刊物如《明報·世紀版》、《字花》等。 Akin Jeje, originally from Canada, now lives in Hong Kong. His works have been published and featured in Canada and Hong Kong. His poetry collection Smoked…

    #WRITERSRESIST in Hong Kong — Readers
  • The Ninth Anniversary Issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank Associate Editors Arthur Leung (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together the new edition. We would also like to…

    Issue #34 of Cha is HERE.
  • ‘Send me a postcard darling. How can I make you understand?’ —Shocking Blue In Chris Marker’s 1982 film, Sans Soleil, the female narrator whom we never see—Alexandra Stewart in the English version—reads, in a simultaneously insistent and soothing voice, fragments…

    “You Always Collected Lovely and Violent Things” — ASIAN CHA Issue 34 Editorial
  • Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for “Writing Japan,” an edition of the journal devoted to work from and/or about Japan. Our special issue “Writing Japan” encompasses writing from and/or about Japan, broadly imagined. We hope to…

    Cha — Call for Submissions — “Writing Japan” Issue (June 2017)
  • Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 35, scheduled for publication in March 2017. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here.…

    Cha — Call for Submissions — Issue 35 (March 2017)