Category: Nominations

  • We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following three poems for the 2021 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry. Results will be announced in January 2022. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! “Flowers” by Ysabelle Cheung…

    [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cha’s 2021 Hawker Prize Nominations
  • We are very pleased to announce that Joanna Lee’s story “Prawn Mee”, published in the April 2018 issue (Issue 39) of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, has been selected for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2018. Additionally, Rae Rival’s poem “Tiempo…

    Best of the Net 2018 + Cha
  • 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 pleased to announce that we have nominated the following pieces for the 2018 Best of the Net Anthology. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! P O E T R Y  “The Nature of a City” by…

    CHA’S BEST OF THE NET 2018 NOMINATIONS
  • We are happy to announce that we have nominated three poems, all from the March 2017 issue (Issue 35) of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, for inclusion in Best Indian Poetry 2018. Modelled after the famed Best American Poetry (BAP),…

    Cha’s nominations for Best Indian Poetry 2018
  • 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
  • We are happy to announce that the following two short stories and two creative non-fiction pieces, first published in Cha, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2016 (published by Sundress). Congratulations to these…

    Cha’s Best of the Net 2016 Nominations: Prose
  • We are happy to announce that the following six poems, selected from the September 2015, December 2015, March 2016 and June 2016 issues of Cha, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2016 (published by…

    Cha’s Best of the Net 2016 Nominations: Poetry
  • Cha has nominated Henry Wei Leung’s short fiction “Getting There”, published in the March 2015 issue, for inclusion in the Queen’s Ferry Press anthology, The Best Small Fictions 2016, which seeks flash of 1000 words or fewer published in 2015.…

    Cha’s nomination for Best Small Fictions anthology
  • We are happy to announce that the following pieces, selected from the September 2014, December 2014, March 2015 and June 2015 issues of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net…

  • We at Cha would like to announce our nominations for the 2015 Pushcart Prize: “Remember How the Night is Elsewhere Void in the Metamorphosis of Man” by B.B.P. Hosmillo (March 2014) “Where the Red Stone Crumbles” by Catherine Edmunds (March…

  • We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work, selected from the December 2013, March 2014 and June 2014 issues of Cha, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2014 (published by Sundress).…

  • – Nominate your favourite Cha story published in 2013. The Million Writers Award for last 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…

  • The End of Summer, oil on canvas, 142 x 205 cm (by Mia Funk) We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work, selected from the September 2012, March 2013, and June 2012 issues of Cha, have been…

  • – Nominate your favourite Cha story published in 2012. 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…

  • Cha is nominating Tom Mangione’s “People are Fundamental” and Angelo B. Ancheta’s “Eclipsed”, both published in Issue #19 of the journal, for The Micro Award 2012. Congratulations and good luck!– Also see our Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations this year. – –

  • We at Cha would like to announce our nominations for the 2012 Pushcart Prize: “Sonia Wants to Rent An Apartment” by José Manuel Sevilla (March 2012) “When I Was the Chinaman’s Granddaughter-In-Law” by Dena Rash Guzman (March 2012) “Winter Seclusion”…

  • 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…

  • – 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…

  • – 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…

  • 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…

  • ––We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work have been nominated by Cha for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2011, published by Sundress. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! –– –Poetry– =W.F. Lantry, “Rainbow Bridge”…