New updates on 7 Cha contributors: Aditi Rao, Arjun Rajendran, Changming Yuan, Nabina Das, Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, Berit Ellingsen and Birgit Linder

Aditi Rao, Arjun Rajendran, Changming Yuan and Nabina Das

Four Cha contributors have new works published in the August 2012 issue of The Four Quarters Magazine. Read Nabina Das's short story "Asking Anandi" (pp. 8-10), six poems by Aditi Rao (pp. 93-96), Changming Yuan's poems "Natural Confrontations" (p. 108) and "January 2: for Yuan Hongqi" (p. 109) and Arjun Rajendran's poem "Over a Cup of Coffee" (pp. 114-115) in the new issue.

|| Aditi Rao's poem "Reunion" will be published in issue #16 of Cha.

|| Arjun Rajendran's poetry was published in Issue #11 of Cha.

|| Changming Yuan's poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha.

|| Nabina Das's poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha.

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Anuradha Vijayakrishnan and Changming Yuan 

Anuradha Vijayakrishnan and Changming Yuan have poems included in the Summer 2012 issue of Conversation Poetry Magazine. Read Anuradha's "Curtains" (p. 20) and Changming's "The Mouse, A Mouse" (p. 21) and "SAWS: A Seasonal Poem" (pp. 22-23) here.

|| Anuradha Vijayakrishnan's poem "Suicide Note" was published in Issue #10 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. 

|| Changming Yuan's poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha.

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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen's prose poem "A Catalog of Planets" is available in the latest edition of Negative Suck.   

||  Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.

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Birgit Linder

Congratulations to Birgit Linder! Her poetry collection has been named a semi-finalist of the Proverse Prize (2012). Birgit, born in Germany and educated in Germany and the USA, has previously lived in Taiwan and China. She is currently teaching in Hong Kong. You can see the full list of semi-finalists here. The finalists will be announced on 20 November 2012 and the winner (or two joint-winners) will be announced in the Spring of 2013. Congratulations, Birgit! And good luck!

|| Birgit Linder's poetry was published in Issue # 17 of Cha and her photography sequence "Urban Philosophies" is forthcoming in Issue #18 of the journal, due out in late September 2012. 

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2011 Pushcart Nominations - Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

We are very pleased to announce Cha's nominations for the Pushcart Prize 2011. The sixth nominee was selected based on readers' voting through email and on this blog. 

1) Eddie Tay, "Night Thoughts" Read an analysis of this poem. (Issue #12, September 2010)

2) Phill Provance, "St. Petersburg Has Many Churches" Read an analysis of this poem. (Issue #12, September 2010)

3) Rosanna Oh, "Etude" (issue #11, May 2010)

4) Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, "Suicide Note" Read an analysis of this poem. (issue #10, February 2010)

5) Papa Osumbal, "A Bum's Demise" Read an analysis of this poem. (issue #10, February 2010)

6) Rumjhum Biswas, "Bones" Read an analysis of this poem. (issue #12, September 2010)

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Also see our Best of the Web, Best of the Net and Micro Award nominations this year.

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Congratulations to all the nominees. We wish you the best of luck and thank you for letting us publish your wonderful work.
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Anuradha Vijayakrishnan in Soundzine

Anuradha Vijayakrishnan's poems "The Woman Who Once Loved Me" and "Daughter" are now published in Soundzine. You can read them here and listen to Anuradha's reading.

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Anuradha Vijayakrishnan's poem "Suicide Note" was published in issue #10 of Cha and analysed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

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CHA's Pushcart Nominations 2011

Each nominee will receive a handmade dragonfly card from Cha. The cards are made by a former contributor.

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*Voting is now closed. 


Cha co-editors Tammy Ho & Jeff Zroback will nominate the following poems for the Pushcart Prize 2010. There is one more slot: we have several pieces in mind but would love to know your thoughts. Which piece from issue 10, issue 11 and issue 12 of the journal do you recommend?

Leave us a comment below or send your suggestions to editorsATasianchaDOTcom (Subject line: "Pushcart") if you prefer anonymity. If possible, please explain briefly why you liked a particular piece. We will consider your input when deciding the sixth nominee. We intend to post the nominations 1st November 2010.

Last year, we faced the same problem and in the end only nominated five poems (see the nominees here). You can help us this time.

1) Eddie Tay, "Night Thoughts" Read "A Cup of Fine Tea: Eddie Tay's "Night Thoughts"" here. (issue #12, September 2010) .

2) Phill Provance, "St. Petersburg Has Many Churches" Read "A Cup of Fine Tea: Phill Provance's "St.Petersburg Has Many Churches"" here. (Issue #12, September 2010)

3) Rosanna Oh, "Etude" (issue #11, May 2010)

4) Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, "Suicide Note" Read "A Cup of Fine Tea: Anuradha Vijayakrishnan's "Suicide Note"" here. (issue #10, February 2010)

5) Papa Osumbal, "A Bum's Demise" Read "A Cup of Fine Tea: Papa Osumbal's "A Bum's Demise" here. (issue #10, February 2010)

6) The sixth nominee is revealed in this post

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Also see our Best of the Web, Best of the Net and Micro Award nominations this year.

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Congratulations to all the nominees. We wish you the best of luck and thank you for letting us publish your wonderful work.

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Best of the Net 2010 Nominations

We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work have been nominated by Cha for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010, published by Sundress Publications. Congratulations to these writers and good luck!

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Poetry

=Rosanna Oh, "Etude" (issue #11, May 2010)

=Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, "Suicide Note" Read an analysis of the poem here.(issue #10, Feb. 2010)

=Papa Osumbal, "A Bum's Demise" Read an analysis of the poem here. (issue #10, February 2010)

=Aryanil Mukherjee, "Hand Movements of a Puppeteer" Read an analysis of the poem here. (issue #9, Nov. 2009)

=Kate Rogers, "Sai Ying Pun Sestina" (issue #9, Nov. 2009)

=Lillian Kwok, "Departure" Read an analysis of the poem here.(issue #8, Aug. 2009)

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Fiction

=Drew Calvert, "Improv" (issue #9, Nov. 2009)

=O Thiam Chin, "Pebbles" (issue #8, Aug. 2009)

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Creative non-fiction

=Iain S. Baird, "A Night at the Taj" (issue #9, Nov. 2009)

=Anne Tibbitts, "The okinawan Coffeeshop" (issue #8, Aug. 2009)

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Also see our Best of the Web, Pushcart and Micro Award nominations this year.

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Iris A. Law's "Circumnavigation", first published in Issue #7 of Cha, was selected for publication in Best of the Net 2009.

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Anuradha Vijayakrishnan in Asia Writes

Cha contributor Anuradha Vijayakrishnan's two poems, "Salt in my Coffee" and "The litchi tree" are published in Asia Writes.

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Anuradha Vijayakrishnan's poem "Suicide Note" was published in issue #10 of Cha and analysed in A Cup of Fine Tea.

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