Click HERE to read the March 2014 issue of Cha. .   . The belated Sixth Anniversary Issue of Cha (March 2014) is here. We would like to thank guest editors Arthur Leung (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us and…

[click the image to enlarge] Below is the shortlist for Cha‘s “Misinterpretation” Flash Fiction Contest. The three winning stories will be announced presently and published in the Fifth Anniversary Issue of Cha.  Shortlisted entries: -“Eclipsed” by Angelo B. Ancheta-“My Bhua” by…

– W.F. Lantry’s short story “The Window of Mėrtola” (pp. 22-23) is now published in “The Hopeless Romantic” issue of River Poets Journal. A PDF of the issue is available here. – Read W.F. Lantry’s Cha profile –

Rumjhum Biswas’s short story “She Doesn’t Know” is published in Everyday Writer’s Resource. You can also read Rumjhum’s story “My Soul” here.––See Rumjhum Biswas’s Cha profile.–

[Click image to enlarge] [Facebook event page] –– Matthew Wong’s photography sequence will be featured in the fourth anniversary issue of Cha, due out in November 2011. ––

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–W.F. Lantry’s short story “Saaki” is now published in the fifth issue of Spilling Ink. Read it here.–W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha.––

Gillian Sze will be reading on Thursday 21st October, 2010 at Concordia University. More information here. – – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. – –

Sam Byfield (read his Cha profile) is one of fifteen Australians in The Australia-China Youth Dialogue Delegation (2010). Learn more about the programme here. – – Sam Byfield‘s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue#5 of Cha. He was…

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‘Single in the City’, Hiphongkong’s most popular blog, is holding a writing contest to see who can give us the funniest, most poignant, or most interesting story about what it’s like to be single in Hong Kong. More information can…

– From the website of Trans-Scripts: Trans-Scripts – a new interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences based at the University of California, Irvine – invites graduate students to submit their work. The theme of the inaugural issue…

Monica Ali, Homi K. Bhabha and Hsu-Ming Teo are the judges for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. There is a new format this year: the prize is opened to all novels by Asian writers published in English each year.…

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Firstfruits publications seeks submissions of poetry in English from Singapore poets who have yet to publish a full-length, single-author collection of poetry. Selected work will appear in an anthology titled Storm Glass: Singapore Poets Before Their First Book, to be…

Picture courtesy of Gillian Sze – – Gillian brought 40 home-made poetry magnets with her to New York. Where did all the magnets go? See here to learn more. Are you lucky enough to find one? – – Gillian Sze…

In Washington, a local couple is searching for a bone marrow donor for their 4-year-old son. Because the parents are of different races, it is very difficult to find a match. And time is running out. The boy only has…

PHOTOGRAPH BYJOLKA IGOLKA A new anthology project titled Mapping Me, a Landscape of Women’s Stories is currently seeking submissions from women writers and visual artists.By asking the fundamental question “Who am I?” this book will explore the complexities and connections…

Date: Tuesday, 13 April 2010Time: 20:30 – 23:30Location: TKO LoungeStreet: 1600 Danforth Ave.Town/City: Toronto, ON Description: Dominic von Riedemann and @Sarah von Riedemann will host the Coffeehouse Cabaret @ TKO’s (1600 Danforth) on Tuesday, April 13th, with Shawn Sage and…

[Click the image for a larger version.] Gillian Sze is a regular Cha contributor and guest editor of issue #10 of the journal. See more here.