• Cha contributors win Best Short Writing in the World 2011

    – – Congratulations to Robert Masterson. His poignant poem “The Distance Between These Things” wins Fleeting Magazine’s Best Short Writing in the World 2011. Robert will receive a year’s subscription to Stack, a personalised monthly selection of the best independent…

  • Fidelity: Solo Exhibition by Matthew Wong

    [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. ––

  • Sumana Roy in Guernica

    – Sumana Roy’s poem “Desert” is now published in Guernica. Read it here. – Sumana Roy’s poem was published in Issue #14 of Cha. ––

  • Benjamin Markovits’s Childish Loves

    0 The quotes below are from Benjamin Markovits’s Childish Loves (2011). Some are from the ‘contemporary’ section and some from the 18thC and 19thC pastiche. Can you tell? (In my day maybe half the English department, and a quarter of the history…

  • Alistair Noon in Blackbox Manifold

    . One of Alistair Noon’s translations of Osip Mandelstam is now online at the October 2011 issue of Blackbox Manifold. Read “To the German Language” here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat Partner:…

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Bicycle”, previously published in Stirring, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • Ira Sukrungruang in Cedars

    – Ira Sukrungruang’s sex story “Longevity of Art” is now published in the new online literary magazine, Cedars. Read it here. – Ira Sukrungruang’s poetry has been published in issue #9 of Cha. ––

  • Brodsky & Utkin’s "Museum for Disappearing Buildings"

    – “Museum for Disappearing Buildings” as a storage vault for discarded architecture. The drawings describe a funereal chapel, where miniatures of “[e]ach disappearing building, even the most unprepossessing” are exhibited (Brodsky and Utkin 1984: n.p.). This project seems to call for a memorial for…

  • Why is it good to just stand and stare sometimes?

     Rene Magritte’s “The False Mirror” William Henry Davies in his poem “Leisure” answers: Leisureby W.H. Davies WHAT is this life if, full of careWe have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long…

  • Vineet Kaul in The Scarlet Sound

    –Vineet Kaul has two poems in The Scarlet Sound: “Wording the Unspoken” and “How The End Begins”.–Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha.––