• CHA’s Best of the Web Nominations 2011

    Cha‘s nominations for the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2011 print anthology are: –“Improv” (fiction) by Drew Calvert, issue #9 November 2009 –“Paramour” (poem) by Ocean Vuong, issue #10 February 2010 –“St. Petersburg Has Many Churches” (poem) by Phill…

  • CHA’s Pushcart Nominations 2011

    Each nominee will receive a handmade dragonfly card from Cha. The cards are made by a former contributor. – *Voting is now closed. Cha co-editors Tammy Ho & Jeff Zroback will nominate the following poems for the Pushcart Prize 2010. There…

  • CHA Issue#12 Goes Live

    Cha: An Asian Literary Journal #12 is HERE. Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts on the issue. We are pleased to announce that the September 2010 issue of Cha has now been launched. We would like to…

  • ASIAN CHA Issue#12 Editorial

    originally posted here The Mortuary and the App In this issue of Cha, we have a special section of essays devoted to picture book authors, curated by our Reviews Editor Eddie Tay. In one of these pieces, “Portrait of a…

  • Rediscovered: two past articles on Cha co-editor

    In 34th Parallel: In Ching Yin:(click the images to enlarge) Both articles were published in 2009. – –

  • Xu Xi explains the multicultural appeal of her latest novel

    Listen to the podcast here. You can also hear Xu Xi read from the novel here. – Habit of a Foreign Sky is Xu Xi’s latest novel, published by Haven Books. The book was a finalist for the Inaugural Man…

  • CHA is in The Hindu

    Today, Cha is in The Hindu, one of the most widely-read English newspapers in India: Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, says that the readership of online journals has grown considerably since … ( Read the…

  • Maurice Oliver in Press 1

    Maurice Oliver’s poems “Dung-titled (The Remix)” and “Self-Portrait, Wearing Shoe Lifts” are now published in Press 1. Read them here. Maurice Oliver’s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

  • Phill Provance’s commentary in the form of a letter addressed to some nebulous mass re the composition of “St. Petersburg Has Many Churches”

    In the following, Phill Provance comments on his poem, “St. Petersburg Has Many Churches”, forthcoming in the September 2010 issue of Cha. See what we said about the poem here. Dear Cha Readers and Fellow Writers: I’ll be honest: This…

  • Jeff Zroback in Foundling Review

    My poem “Chocolate Covered Water”, written for Tammy, is now published in Foundling Review. – – –