Category: Royston Tester

  • EDITORIAL / AUGUST 2009 (ISSUE 8) OTHER EDITORIALS The current issue of Cha features a review of Todd Swift’s latest poetry collection, Seaway: New and Selected Poetry. One of the poems in the book, “Kanada Post”, offers this meditation on the expatriate experience. I remember…

    [ARCHIVE] “Some Other Life” by Jeff Zroback, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Eddie Tay, and Royston Tester
  • NOTE: WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS. (Thursday 3 June 2021) We are happy to announce that we are now accepting submissions for Issue 46—Twelfth Anniversary Issue—of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, scheduled for publication in December 2019. Submissions of…

    CHA—Call for Submissions—Issue 46 (Twelfth anniversary Issue)—December 2019
  • Due to unforeseen reasons, the “Writing Vietnam” issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, originally scheduled for publication in September 2019, will be postponed to 2021. In light of this change, below is our new publication plan for the rest…

    Cha’s Publication Plan 2019
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for the Ninth Anniversary Issue, scheduled for publication in December 2016. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be…

    Cha – Call for Submissions – Ninth Anniversary Issue (December 2016)
  • due out in December 2015. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for the Eighth Anniversary Issue, scheduled for publication in December 2015. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration.…

  • Click HERE to read the June 2014 issue of Cha. .   . The June 2014 Issue of Cha is here. We would like to thank guest editors Michael Gray (poetry), Royston Tester (prose) and Reid Mitchell (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put…

  • due out in December 2014. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for the Seventh Anniversary Issue, scheduled for publication in December 2014. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission…

  • due out in March 2014. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for the Sixth Anniversary Issue, scheduled for publication in March 2014. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission…

  • Fatty Goes to China By Royston Tester FICTION 150 PAGES, 5 X 7 FORMATS: TRADE PAPER TRADE PAPER, $19.95 (US $19.95) (CA $21.95) ISBN 9781926639482 RIGHTS: WOR We at Cha are very happy to announce that Associate Editor Royston Tester‘s second…

  • [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.…

  • Rumjhum Biswas Rumjhum Biswas‘s poem “The Fish, The Sea, and Me”, previously published in Contemporary Rhyme, is now reprinted in Wisdom Crieth Without. The poem has this line: ‘There, right there, I found a fish on the sand’. What will…

  • – Cha‘s Associate Editor Royston Tester‘s new book Fatty Goes to China (Tightrope Books) will be launched in Toronto, Canada, on 1 May 2012. The cover artist is Zhang Xiaogang. Cha has the privilege to feature the title story of the collection,…

  • – Cha‘s Associate Editor Royston Tester‘s new book Fatty Goes to China (Tightrope Books) will be launched in Toronto, Canada, on 1 May 2012. The cover artist is Zhang Xiaogang. Cha has the privilege to feature the title story of the collection,…

  • Congratulations to Royston Tester! His story “Four Gentlemen and a Comfort Woman” has been named a finalist in Malahat Review‘s annual Open Seasons Awards competition. “Four Gentlemen and a Comfort Woman” is from Royston’s forthcoming collection Fatty Goes to China…

  • Author Royston Tester Reading at the Opposite House Reading :: 7pm, Thursday, August 25, 2011 Venue :: Atrium of The Opposite House RSVP :: liyu@redgategallery.com [limited seating available to the first 40 guests] Where is ‘home’? Does an adopted one matter? Who’s adopting whom?…

  • – Royston Tester’s short story “A Beijing Minute” is now published in the July 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read it here. A review of Jee Leong Koh’s Seven Studies for a Self Portrait by Nicholas Liu is…

  • – The January 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is live! Read Bernard Henrie’s poems “President Obama at Xavier’s College, India” and “I Was Only a Chambermaid”; Royston Tester’s short story, “Bird on a High Branch” (written when he…

  • – Royston Tester’s short story “Dotty”, set in England and Canada, is now published in “The Unruly Issue” of Canada’s Grain Magazine. – Read Royston Tester’s Cha profile. –

  • – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its November 2011 issue (Issue #15). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 15 September, 2011.…

  • Congratulations to Cha‘s regular guest editor Royston Tester! His short story “Carnaval”, which is set in the Brazilian Amazon, received an Honourable Mention in The Antigonish Review‘s 40th Anniversary Literary Competition (TAR 40), and will be published in their fall…

  • Royston Tester’s fiction “Seriously”, which was was shortlisted in the CBC Literary Awards (2006) and the Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest (2009), is now published in the 8th issue of Leaf Garden. You can download the journal for free from their…

  • Cha contributor and former guest editor Royston Tester’s new work “The Berlin Trilogy” is now published in the debut issue of Oblique Quarterly, ‘an arts and literature magazine with a focus on the unusual, the avant garde, the thought provoking’.…

  • Cha current guest editor, Royston Tester, is interviewed in Beijing’s City Weekend. Royston talks about the experience of guest-editing Cha and explains some background of the journal. Read Royston Tester’s Cha profile.––