New updates on 6 Cha contributors: Alison Wong, Vinita Agrawal, Berit Ellingsen, Mani Rao, Rheea Mukherjee and Sumana Roy

Alison Wong

Alison Wong, a poet and novelist whose first novel As the Earth Turns Silver won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction and selected by the New Zealand Listener and the Sunday Star-Times as one of the best books published in 2009, will be reading from her book and discussing it at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival next month. Learn more about the event here.

Alison's poem "There's Always Things To Come Back to the Kitchen For" was published in Issue #5 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. Her As the Earth Turns Silver was reviewed in Cha.

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Vinita Agrawal

Vinita Agrawal's poem "Nine-Bow Rain" is hotly available in Spark Magazine. Vinita's poem "Textile Homeland" and a review of The Poetry of Yoga were also published in Spark.

|| Vinita Agrawal's poetry was published in Issue #16 and Issue #17 of Cha.

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Berit Ellingsen

A prose poem by Berit Ellingsen, titled "Polaris", is now part of writer xTx’s Supermodel Summer project. Read Berit's poem here.  

||  Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile. 

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Mani Rao

In this review of The HapperCollins Book of English Poetry (ed. Sudeep Sen), which includes post-1950s Indian poetry in English, you can read the poem "Shiva's Dig" by Mani Rao. Read the full review and Mani's poem here.

||  Mani Rao's poetry was published in Issue #1 of Cha.

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Rheea Mukherjee

The Spring 2012 issue of the Southern Humanities Review is now out and Rheea Mukherjee has a fiction piece, titled "Help With Packing", is included in it. Learn more about SHR and the new issue here.

|| Rheea Mukherjee's poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha.

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Sumana Roy

"Planchette", a short story by Sumana Roy, is now published in a special edition of the Daily Star, based in Bangladesh.

|| See Sumana Roy's Cha profile.

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Wendy Xu, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, W.F. Lantry, Alistair Noon and Rumjhum Biswas

Wendy Xu 

"I WAS NOT EVEN BORN WHEN YOU BECAME AN EXPERT", a poem co-written by Wendy Xu and Nick Sturm, is published in the Summer 2012 issue of Birdfeast. You know, we are all made of very small particles...

|| Wendy Xu's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha. 

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Nicholas Y.B. Wong's poem "Buddha’s Public Lecture: Who is Afraid of Ai" is now available in the fourth issue of Buddhist Poetry Review. How much do you know about the Chinese word 'love'?

|| Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha's profile here.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's topical poem "Derecho", which concerns the recent storm, is now published in The New Verse News. Yes, and even now butterflies resume their dance...

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Alistair Noon

Alistair Noon's Earth Records and three other publications are extensively, intensively and generously (stealing Alistair's words) reviewed by Peter Riley at The Fortnightly Review. I am so glad to see this review - I am a big fan of TFR! 

|| Alistair Noon's poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem "The Expat Partner: An Email" is discussed here.

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Rumjhum Biswas

Two pieces of work by Rumjhum Biswas were featured in the June 2012 issue of Spark. Read Rumjhum's flash story "Rainbow" and poem "The Day Heaven Came Down". What to do when Heaven came down / and scoop you up / in copious soft-as-cloud arms?

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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