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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INTERNATIONAL PROVERSE PRIZE FOR UNPUBLISHED WRITING 2011

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The Entry Documents for the 2011 competition, with the Terms and Conditions and Submission Guidance and Instructions, are available now on the following website: http://www. proversepublishing.com.

Direct link: http://proversepublishing. com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/ docs/proverse_prize_2011_10_ March_2011.68163434.pdf [pdf]

Deadline for receipt of Completed Entry Documents for the 2011 competition: 31 May 2011.

Entry to the competition is open to all aged 18 or above on the date they sign the Entry Documents, irrespective of residence, nationality or citizenship.

The Proverse Prize is offered for a single-author unpublished full-length work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, submitted in English. Genres accepted include novels, novellas, short-story collections, poetry collections and non-fiction including but not limited to autobiography, biography, memoir, diaries, essay-collections, journals, letters, works of popular scholarship. (Translations are welcome. Work may be previously edited, acknowledging the editor.)

The entry fee is HK$200 or GBP30.

The first prize is publication of the entered work and HK$10,000, (HKD7.80 = US$1.00). Additional publication prizes may be awarded.

Full details, including background, previous winners, winning and other entered works already published, as well as selected events, media notices and press releases, are on the Proverse website.

General enquiries to the following email address: <info@proversepublishing.com>.

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Proverse Hong Kong will hold a winner's reception and launch five books (23rd November, 2010) ON TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER

PROVERSE HONG KONG (PUBLISHERS OF PROSE AND VERSE) WILL HOLD A WINNER'S RECEPTION AND LAUNCH FIVE BOOKS ON TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER

-name of event: international Proverse Prize for unpublished writing Winners' Reception & Book Launch

-date of event: Tuesday 23 November 2010.

-time 7.00pm-9.00pm.

-venue address: Blue Room, Helena May, 35 Garden Road, Central Hong Kong.

-admission price. HKD90 (includes finger-food). cash-bar.

Advance registration / payment required.

ON-LINE REGISTRATION FORM (Follow-up required by those wishing to attend) OR use downloadable registration form from website. 

-contact phone number 2259-3456

-contact email address: proverse@netvigator.com

The books are:

Laura Solomon's novella, Instant Messages

Rebecca Tomasis' novel, Mishpacha – Family

Jason Polley's short stories in verse, refrain,

Akin Jeje's Smoked Pearl: Poems of Hong Kong and Beyond

Olga Walló's autobiographical novel, Tightrope! A Bohemian Tale, translated from the Czech.

The names of the Shortlisted Writers for the international Proverse Prize for unpublished writing (2010) will be announced.

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Jennifer Wong's poetry collection is longlisted for the Proverse Prize 2010

Congratulations to Cha contributor Jennifer Wong; her poetry collection is longlisted for the Proverse Prize 2010. More information about the prize here.

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Jennifer's poem "Companions" was published in the first anniversary issue of Cha and nominated for inclusion in Best of the Net 2009. Her review of three poetry collections (Leung Ping Kwan's Shifting Borders, Christopher (Kit) Kelen's To the Single Man's Hut: Poems and Pictures, and Song Zijiang's Wiping the Dim Sky) is forthcoming in the September 2010 issue of the journal.

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Good luck, Jenny!

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• Read Jennifer Wong's review in Cha.
• Who else is in Issue 12?

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