• Cha Flash Fiction Contest

    [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 It is for unpublished flash stories in English language on the theme of “Misinterpretation”.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…

  • The things we do for love

    By Tammy Ho and Jeff Zroback “Not To Be Reproduced (Portrait of Edward James)” (1937/) by Rene Magritte  I will do as you ask even though I know that as the Turkish barber is shaving my sideburns with a razor, it…

  • Nicholas YB Wong is a winner of 2012 Ian MacMillan Writing Awards

    Hawai’i Review has announced the winners of the 2012 Ian MacMillan Writing Awards and congratulations to Nicholas YB Wong! His poem “Ode to Objects” won the second place in the poetry section. Read the judge’s and Nicholas’s comments on the…

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Rangoon” is now up at October Babies. The poem was previously published in Right Hand Pointing. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. –

  • Bryan Thao Worra in Lantern Review

    Bryan Thao Worra‘s poem “Pen/Sword” is now published in the fourth issue of Lantern Review, edited by Iris A. Law and Mia Ayumi Malhotra. Read Bryan’s poem here and make sure to read the entire issue here! – Bryan Thao…

  • Sridala Swami, Aditi Rao, Nabina Das and Anindita Sengupta in Muse India

    – Four Cha contributors have new works published in the new issue of Muse India. ||| Sridala Swami’s  “Twisitng”, “Today’s Featured Sorrow” and “Synaesthetic”||| Aditi Rao’s “The International Mango Festival”, “Sometimes, When Prayers are Shouted from Rooftops, the Echoes are the…

  • Yew Leong Lee in Chutzpah Magazine

    – Yew Leong Lee’s translation of Liu Qingban’s “The One Who Picks Flowers” is published in the English insert (titled Peregrine) of the sixth issue of Chutzpah Magazine. Peregrine features English translations of selected pieces of the Chinese content. You can download…

  • Wendy Xu in jellyfish

    – Wendy Xu‘s poem “Several Altitudes of Not Talking” is published in the fifth issue of jellyfish. – Wendy Xu’s poetry will appear in the March 2012 issue of Cha. –

  • Nicholas YB Wong’s Cities of Sameness

    – Nicholas YB Wong‘s first full collection of poetry, Cities of Sameness, published by Desperanto, is now available both in print and in Kindle version. Learn more about the book here. “Cities of Sameness is Nicholas YB Wong’s first candid…

  • John Biggs’s Towards Forgiveness: Sino-Tasmanian Stories from Two Islands

    = John Biggs‘s new collection of short story, Towards Forgiveness: Sino-Tasmanian Stories from Two Islands (Ginninderra Press), is now published. Learn more about the book here. “The stories in Towards Forgiveness: Sino-Tasmanian Stories from Two Islands take place on two…