• Thank you to all the writers who sent work to Cha‘s “Misinterpretation” Flash Fiction contest. Judges Reid Mitchell and Tammy Ho have selected the following three pieces as the finalists. Please scroll down to read the writers’ biographies and their commentaries on…

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong Nicholas Y.B. Wong‘s poem “Common” and its Chinese translation are now published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. || Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha’s profile here. ***** Marc Vincenz Marc Vincenz’s poem “Similar” can now…

    New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Marc Vincenz, Berit Ellingsen, W.F. Lantry and Murli Melwani
  • Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min It is always exciting to read a new issue of QLRS. In the current issue, you can read “Our Greatest Years Have Passed Like Flowers”, a poem by Leanne Dunic;…

    New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min and Wendy Xu
  • Matthew Wong and Reid Mitchell The Fall 2012 issue of Unshod Quills is now available! Matthew Wong is the featured artist and , two new poems by Reid Mitchell, “LIT BY FUJIAN MOONLIGHT” and “WOMAN WITH A MAN’S HEART”, are included in the…

    New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Matthew Wong, Reid Mitchell, Ricky Garni, Nikesh Murali and Patrick Donnelly
  • Ricky Garni Ricky Garni‘s four new poems “Well If That’s The Way It Must Be, OK”, “Stroll by Numbers”, “Magic” and “1961” are now published in the latest edition of Softblow. || Ricky Garni’s poem “Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms” was published in Issue #16 of…

    New Updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Donna Vorreyer, Christopher Anthony Leibow, Bob Bradshaw and Murli Melwani
  • [click the image to enlarge] Below is the shortlist for Cha‘s “Misinterpretation” Flash Fiction Contest. The three winning stories will be announced presently and published in the Fifth Anniversary Issue of Cha.  Shortlisted entries: -“Eclipsed” by Angelo B. Ancheta-“My Bhua” by…

  • – Click HERE to read the September 2012 issue of Cha.   The September 2012 issue of Cha is now available. We would like to thank guest editors Ivy Alvarez (poetry) and Berit Ellingsen (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would also…

  • originally posted here. In My Piecemeal Fashion            With this pen I take in hand my selves           and with these dead disciples I will grapple.              (Anne Sexton, “Mother and Jack and the Rain”, Collected Poems, p.…

  • Thank you to all the poets who sent work to Cha‘s “The Past” Poetry contest. In just one month, we received 440 highly accomplished submissions. Judges Marc Vincenz and Tammy Ho have selected the following seven poems as the finalists.…

  • due out in March 2013. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue # 20, scheduled for publication in March 2013. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines…