• Cha – Call for Submissions – Issue #24 (June 2014)

    due out in June 2014. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue # 24, scheduled for publication in June 2014. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines…

  • CHA’s Best of the Net 2013 Nominations

    The End of Summer, oil on canvas, 142 x 205 cm (by Mia Funk) We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work, selected from the September 2012, March 2013, and June 2012 issues of Cha, have been…

  • Nominate a 2012 Cha story | Million Writers Award

    – Nominate your favourite Cha story published in 2012. The Million Writers Award for the year’s best online short fiction is now inviting nominations from readers, writers, and editors. The award is for any short story of at least 1,000…

  • CHA Issue #21 goes live

    – Click HERE to read the June 2013 issue of Cha.   The June 2013 issue of Cha is now available. We want to thank guest editors Jason Eng Hun Lee (poetry) and Cha‘s Consulting Editor Reid Mitchell (prose) for reading…

  • Cha – Call for Submissions – Sixth Anniversary Issue (March 2014)

    due out in March 2014. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for the Sixth Anniversary Issue, scheduled for publication in March 2014. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission…

  • What happens when you are in love?

    [Click image to enlarge] In Ways of Seeing, John Berger answers: When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can…

  • Do houses have loyalty?

    In Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence (1997), Geoff Dyer answers: I also thought of knocking on the door of our old house, explaining that I was born there, that I lived there until I was eleven,…

  • Cha "Void" Poetry Contest

    VOID A Cha Poetry contest NEW: Shortlist (Friday 24 January 2014)NEW: Winners announced (Saturday 29 March 2014) This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems on the theme of “Void”.   Judges: Tammy Ho…

  • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — "THE ANCIENT ASIA ISSUE"

    Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for “The Ancient Asia Issue,” an edition of the journal devoted exclusively to work from and about Asia before the mid-nineteenth century. From the beginning of the twentieth century, ancient Asia…

    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — "THE ANCIENT ASIA ISSUE"

  • Geoff Dyer, John Berger and lamb chops

    Geoff Dyer When Geoff Dyer was living in Paris, John Berger sent him a package containing four lamb chops, bloody and ‘totally fresh’, through the post. Dyer believed that’s a token to both Berger’s generosity and the marvellous efficiency of the…