• Phill Provance joins Danse Macabre as Associate Editor

    – Phill Provance has now joined the Danse Macabre editorial team in the role of Associate Editor. Check out the publication here.  – – Phill Provance’s poems were published in issue #12 of Cha. His poem “St. Petersberg Has Many Churches” was…

  • The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

    Peter Ackroyd’s The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) is a fictional memoir of Wilde, written (supposedly) between 9 August 1900 and his death on 30 November that year. In the book, Wilde writes in a letter to a friend, ‘the…

  • Rumjhum Biswas in MicroHorror

    – Rumjhum Biswas’s short story “Lovers” is now published in MicroHorror. Read it here. – – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. – –

  • Stephen Hawking mentions the Chinese tale of the ten suns

    In The Grand Design: New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life (2010), co-written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow: The Chinese tell of a time during the Hsia dynasty (c. 2205-c.1782 BC) when our cosmic environment suddenly changed. Ten suns appeared in…

  • The Pipettes "Santa’s On His Way"

    Download The Pipettes’s “Santa’s On His Way”! Absolutely free. ––

  • "Suppose someone submitted all your poems for you?"

    I came across this interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick on Nic Sebastian’s blog Very Like A Whale and was intrigued. In July, Kathleen submitted some poems to us on behalf of her husband, W.F. Lantry. Royston, J and I selected “Rainbow Bridge”…

  • Robert Raymer’s Tropical Affairs reviewed

    Robert Raymer’s Tropical Affairs is reviewed in Expatriate Lifestyle (February 2010). Go to Robert’s blog and click the image to enlarge and read the review.––Robert Raymer’s short story “On Fridays” was published in Issue #12 of Cha.––

  • The god of his own pathetic little world

    This post was originally written on 9th September, 2009. Foyles Bookstore, London Tonight we saw John Banville (who is also Benjamin Black) at a free author’s talk organised by the Foyles Bookstore. In the event, Banville discussed his latest novel,…

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong in The Scrambler

    Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s sequence of poems “-ING: Smoking, Haunting, Prewriting” is now published in Issue #43 (November/December 2010) of The Scrambler. – – Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • W.F. Lantry wins the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize

    Congratulations to W.F. Lantry, who won the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize with his poem “Kiste”. From W.F.’s website: (Jerusalem, Israel) – W.F. Lantry of Washington, DC won the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize sponsored by the Lindberg…