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  • originally posted here. In My Piecemeal Fashion            With this pen I take in hand my selves           and with these dead disciples I will grapple.              (Anne Sexton, “Mother and Jack and the Rain”, Collected Poems, p.…

  • due out in March 2013. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue # 20, scheduled for publication in March 2013. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines…

  • We have now selected the nine short-listed poems for “The Past” poetry contest. The finalists will be announced when the September 2012 issue of Cha goes live. || “Letter to Queen Victoria from Hong Kong, 2012” by Michael Gray || “The…

  • THE PAST A Cha Poetry contest Winners announced on 23 September 2012. | Shortlist announced on 17 September 2012. This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems about “The Past”.  Rules: Each poet can submit…

  • We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work, selected from the July 2011, November 2011, March 2012 and June 2012 issues of Cha, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2012 (published…

  • Click HERE to read the June 2012 issue of Cha.   The June 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Divya Rajan (poetry) and Bob Bradshaw (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would…

  • [click image to enlarge] due out in December 2012. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its Fifth Anniversary Issue (Issue # 19). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration.…

  • – We are very happy to announce that Cha is the winner of this year’s Million Writers Award for best publication! We had five stories in the list of notable pieces. Congratulations to the writers (listed below) and thank you…

  • – The Million Writers Award for the year’s best online short fiction is now inviting nominations from readers, writers, and editors. The award is for any short story of at least 1,000 words first published in an online publication during 2011.–…

  • – Nominate your favourite Cha story published in 2011. The Million Writers Award for the year’s best online short fiction is now inviting nominations from readers, writers, and editors. The award is for any short story of at least 1,000…

  • Click HERE to read the March 2012 issue of Cha.   The March 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Ankur Agarwal (poetry) and Mag Tan (prose) for reading the submissions with us.…

    CHA Issue#16 Goes Live
  • [click the image to enlarge] Description: This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished flash stories in English language on the theme of “Misinterpretation”.  Rules: -Each writer can submit up to two pieces (no…

  • – Congratulations to Elizabeth Weinberg! Her short story “The Earth That Stands Before Us”, first published in Issue #12 of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, has been named one of the finalists of Best of the Net 2011.  See here…

  • Thank you to all who submitted work to Cha‘s “Encountering” Poetry contest. Out of 400 highly accomplished submissions, judges Arthur Leung and Tammy Ho have selected the following seven poems as the finalists. Although we had originally intended only to…

  • We have now selected the twelve short-listed poems for the “Encountering” poetry contest. The finalists will be announced on Wednesday 15 February. || “Reunion” by Aditi Rao || “On Encountering Jean-Claude Van Damn” by Andrew Barker || “Aporia” by Arlene Yandug || “Two Girls Very Small” by Daniel A. Nicholls…

  • Thank you to everyone who has submitted work to Cha: An Asian Literary Journal‘s “Encountering” poetry contest. Judges Arthur Leung and Tammy Ho have now selected the following twenty long-listed poems. The short list will be released on Friday 10 February…

  • –– 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…

  • www.asiancha.com   We are very happy to announce that the Fourth Anniversary Issue of Cha is now live. We would like to thank our guest editors Robert E. Wood (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would…

  • 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…

  • [Click the above image to enlarge] UPDATE: 20 long-listed poems were announced on 4 February 2012. [Link] UPDATE: 12 short-listed poems were announced on 10 February 2012. [Link] UPDATE: 7 finalists were announced on 15 February 2012. [Link] Description: This…

  • – We are currently looking for prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) guest editors for 2012 and 2013 to read the submissions with us.– The guest editor position is open to all past and current contributors regardless of genres. We usually read around…

  • We are very happy to announce the winners for our first Fine Tea Competition 2011. First Prize £25.00Rumjhum Biswas discusses Sumana Roy’s “Love: Made in China”, published in “The China Issue” (July 2011). Second Prize £15.00Marybeth Rua-Larsen discusses Maysa Vang’s “Between…

  • – 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.…

  • www.asiancha.com  We are very happy to announce that “The China Issue” is now live. We would like to thank our guest editor Mai Mang (Yibing Huang) for reading the poetry and prose submissions with us as well as curating the…

    The China Issue is REALLY HERE.
  • www.asiancha.com  We are very happy to announce that “The China Issue” is now live. We would like to thank our guest editor Mai Mang (Yibing Huang) for reading the poetry and prose submissions with us as well as curating the…

    The China Issue is HERE.
  • originally posted here   CHINA: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT COULD BE . In an interview in 2008, I was asked whether my loyalty lay with “Hong Kong” or “China.” I remember finding the question easy to answer: “Hong Kong,…

    China: What It Is, What It Could Be
  • originally posted here THE CHINESE CURSE “May you live in interesting times.” Thus goes the first part of the famous Chinese curse, or at least the curse commonly attributed to the Chinese. Like all good curses at first sight it…

  • Artist: Annysa Ng  Description: Fine Tea articles may be on any poems, stories or artwork/photography featured in the history of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. To see the kind of analyses we have published, please visit http://finecha.wordpress.com. However, you do not…

  • Cha’s co-editor Tammy Ho is featured in the Spring 2011 issue of King’s College London’s In Touch (p. 42).   – –