• Cha will be launched in Beijing by current guest editor Royston Tester. Host: The bookworm BeijingLocation: Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road, Chao Yang District, BeijingDate: Monday 31st AugustTime: 7.30pmADMISSION FREE(By conincidence, the Beijing launch will be occuring during the city’s…

  • You are invited to the event “Open Studios & BBQ” by Red Gate Residency in Beijing, China. Date: Wednesday 26 August 2009 Time: 5pm Location: Bei Gao Studios, Feijiacun (Shangri La Cha contributor and current guest editor Royston Tester is…

  • Virtual Artists Collective has just released a new poetry anthology, on the no road way to tomorrow, edited by 李森 Li Sen, 梁慧春 Liang Huichun, 龙晓滢 Long Xiaoying, Charlie Newman 查理·纽曼, and Cha contributor Steven Schroeder 史蒂文·施罗德. The English title…

  • Daniel Hudon’s travel article “Traveling in Buddhist Thailand” is now published in The Wanderlust Review. Read the article here. Daniel Hudon’s creative non-fiction has been previously published in issue #5 of Cha.

  • Cha‘s nominations for the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2010 print anthology are: -“The Killing” (fiction) by Nirmala Pillai, issue #5 November 2008-“45 Belgrave Square” (poetry) by Jason Lee, issue #6 February 2009-“Taste” (fiction) by Surajit Chakravarty, issue #7…

  • (More information here.) Fifty-Fifty, the anthology edited by Xu Xi and published by Haven Books (Hong Kong), will be relaunched with a new cover. To celebrate Haven Books has teamed up with Pacific Coffee to bring the anthology to the…

  • Vaughan Rapatahana’s poetry collection is longlisted for the inaugural Proverse Prize. Read more about the prize here. Congratulations, Vaughan! We at Cha wish you the best of luck! Vaughan Rapatahana’s poetry has been published in issue #8 of Cha.

  • Ceci Mourkogiannis’s poem “Shanghai in Colour” is published in the Postcard section of the third issue of Frostwriting. Read the work here. – – Ceci Mourkogiannis’s poetry was published in issue #7 of Cha.––

  • Rohith Sundararaman’s new poem “In the Shape of a Bird” is now published in the eighth issue of The Story Garden, a collection of writing and art that has been workshopped and shared at Scrawl: The Writers Asylum. Read Rohith’s…

  • Todd Swift’s Seaway: New and Selected Poems, published by Salmon Poetry, is reviewed by Catherine Woodward inOsprey, a Scottish online literary journal. A review of the collection by Kate Rogers is also available in the August 2009 issue of Cha.…