• [REVIEW] “I Am Not Your Creation: Grace Chia’s 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠” by Nina Powles

    {Written by Nina Powles, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Grace Chia, Mother of All Questions, Math Paper Press, 2017. 89 pgs. I am not your creation. I…

    [REVIEW] “I Am Not Your Creation: Grace Chia’s 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠” by Nina Powles

  • “Creativity through Spoken Word” by Akin Jeje

    As a part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, I visited Valtorta College in Tai Po on Friday 6 July 2018 to speak to a group of 16 Form-5 students about spoken word poetry, and afterwards held a workshop on…

    “Creativity through Spoken Word” by Akin Jeje

  • “Everything from politics and pollution to the burdens of academic stress and mental health” by Henrik Hoeg

    As part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series I visited Ying Wa College on Monday 9 July 2018 to work with the students on their poetry. Particular focus was given to trying to capture Hong Kong in a way that…

    “Everything from politics and pollution to the burdens of academic stress and mental health” by Henrik Hoeg

  • CHA—Call for Submissions—Issue 42 (Eleventh Anniversary Issue)—December 2018

    NOTE: We have now reopened the submission window for PROSE entries (fiction and creative non-fiction) and PHOTOGRAPHY/ART until Friday 9 November 2018. If you would like your work considered for inclusion in our Eleventh Anniversary Issue (tentatively scheduled for publication…

    CHA—Call for Submissions—Issue 42 (Eleventh Anniversary Issue)—December 2018

  • “The Pinoy Sensorium”—Asian Cha Issue 40 Editorial

    [Header image, entitled “Kasuy”, is by Ricardo M. de Ungria.] File by genre file, they pulled into the computer station almost relentlessly. It was like being hemmed in skin to skin inside an MRT coach during the morning rush hour,…

    “The Pinoy Sensorium”—Asian Cha Issue 40 Editorial

  • [Review] Looking for Idealism: Alam Cruz Miclat’s Soul Searchers and Dreamers

    {Written by Carolyn Lau, this review is part of Issue 40 (July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Alma Cruz Miclat, Soul Searchers and Dreamers: Artists’ Profiles, Maningning Miclat Art Foundation and Erehwon Centre for the…

    [Review] Looking for Idealism: Alam Cruz Miclat’s Soul Searchers and Dreamers

  • [Review] Bending Without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration and Resilience

    {Written by Janice Tsang, this review is part of Issue 40 (July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Monette Bichsel, Lenny Kaye Bugayong and Lily C. Fen (editors), Bending Without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration…

    [Review] Bending Without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration and Resilience

  • Wilson Leung

    [Download Wilson’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] WILSON LEUNG 梁允信 is a barrister whose legal practice focuses on commercial litigation and constitutional law. Before turning to law, he studied philosophy at the London School of Economics and…

    Wilson Leung

  • Akin Jeje

    [Download Akin’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Canadian poet AKIN JEJE lives in Hong Kong. His works have been published and featured in Canada and Hong Kong. His poetry collection Smoked Pearl was a semi-finalist for the…

    Akin Jeje

  • Mary Shuk-han Wong

    [Mary’s selected poems, both by Liu Xiabao, can be found below.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] 〈卡夫卡：我對你說 —- 給酷愛卡夫卡的妻〉 卡夫卡，我对你说 在透明的蓝天下 想起你 肯定是一种亵渎 但我分明在蓝天下 在半个苍白的月亮中 看见了你 你那双受虐狂的眼睛 瞳人的正中 晃动着你爹的皮带 皮带的后面是一张咀嚼的大嘴 而更深处是漆黑、寒冷的阳台 你惊恐于 自己的瘦弱和父亲的伟岸 如同耗子惊恐于猫的敏捷 于是，你的笔 变成一棵老树上 最早干枯却 最后折断的枝杈 历尽疯狂的沧桑 复归于平静…

    Mary Shuk-han Wong