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Alison Wong Alison Wong, a poet and novelist whose first novel As the Earth Turns Silver won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction and selected by the New Zealand Listener and the Sunday Star-Times as one of the…
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By Sam Nallen Copley © Amartey Golding Contemporary art often sets out to polarise: post-modernist deliberate abstraction and laboured attempts to push boundaries versus ethnocentric pious anti-avant-garde conservatism. Although we hit this stalemate many years ago, clichés of what exactly constitutes…
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Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong‘s poem “Prayer for the Newly Damned” is now published in the September/October 2012 issue of the American Poetry Review. || Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of…
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Ricky Garni Ricky Garni’s delightful poem “Wednesday”, first published in his collection The Eternal Journals of Crispy Flotilla, is now reprinted in the newly-designed Reprint Poetry. || Ricky Garni’s poem “Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms” was published in Issue #16 of Cha and creatively responded on…
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Patrick Donnelly Patrick Donnelly‘s “In Which I Explain Why I Set the Fire” and “Poem Contradicting the Previous Poem” are now published in Plume. Read the poems here. There was no fire. There was never any fire. || Patrick Donnelly and Stephen…
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THE PAST A Cha Poetry contest Winners announced on 23 September 2012. | Shortlist announced on 17 September 2012. This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems about “The Past”. Rules: Each poet can submit…
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THE HANDWRITTEN PROJECT Would you like to receive a handwritten card from Cha? Tell us a poem published in the journal that you like (from any of the issues) and we will write out some of its lines on a…
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We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work, selected from the July 2011, November 2011, March 2012 and June 2012 issues of Cha, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2012 (published…
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Wendy Xu “I WAS NOT EVEN BORN WHEN YOU BECAME AN EXPERT”, a poem co-written by Wendy Xu and Nick Sturm, is published in the Summer 2012 issue of Birdfeast. You know, we are all made of very small particles… || Wendy…
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Xu Xi, Kirpal Singh and Ira Sukrungruang Writers from all over the world are coming to Hong Kong for the City University MFA summer residency. If you are in the city this month (21-28 July), make sure to come to…
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