• "And ain’t I a woman?"

    “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And…

  • Vaughan Rapatahana in Blackmail Press

    –Read Vaughan Rapatahana’s new work in issue #30 of Blackmail Press.–Vaughan Rapatahana’s poetry has been published in Issue #8 of Cha.––

  • Toddlekins and Trot by Anna M. Pratt

    “Dear Toddlekins,” said little Trot,“May I talk to you a while?”“Why, yeth, of courthe,” said Toddlekins,With a bashful little smile. “Now, Toddlekins,” said little Trot,“If we should meet a bear”——“Good graciouth me!” said Toddlekins,“You give me thuch a thcare!” “If…

  • Vaughan Rapatahana’s Home, Away, Elsewhere

    Home Away Elsewhere Semi-finalist for the inaugural Proverse Prize Vaughan Rapatahana Rapatahana’s poems make significant patterns out of the randomness of life’s events and give succinct and effective voice to the peculiarly modern condition of the global nomad at once…

  • Call for Submissions: Blackmail Press

    – Cha contributor Vaughan Rapatahana will act as guest editor for Issue #31 of Blackmail Press, one of Aotearoa-New Zealand’s leading online poetry journals. For the issue they are asking for submissions of original poems on the theme of marginalization, on being…

  • Call for Submissions: Maori and Indigenous (MAI) Review Journal

    – Maori and Indigenous (MAI) Review Journal (poetry editor: Vaughan Rapatahana), an online magazine dedicated to the development of indigenous peoples, is calling for submissions of up to four original (i.e. previously unpublished) poems. Submissions are accepted all year around and…

  • Donna Miscolta’s When the de la Cruz Family Danced

    – We at Cha are very glad to announce that Donna Miscolta’s début novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced has recently been published by Hong Kong-based Signal 8 Press. On her website, Donna writes: ‘One of my stories, which happened…

  • Interview with Donna Miscolta at Freelance and Fiction

    – Read an interview with Donna Miscolta, whose novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced has recently been published by Signal 8 Press. – Donna Miscolta’s fiction was published in Issue #11 of Cha. – –

  • "[O]nly you and I in all that garden"

    Quote of the day  8 “You never seem to be waiting for me, but we kept meeting at every turn of the paths. Behind every bush, at the foot of each statue, near every pond. It is as if it had…

  • Arcadia at Duke of York’s

    This post was written on September 12, 2009 On Friday, we went to the Duke of York’s Theatre to watch Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. It was the first time we had been to this theatre and it was an interesting experience. The theatre seemed…