New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, W.F. Lantry, Marc Vincenz and Kristine Ong Muslim

Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's delightful poem "Wednesday", first published in his collection The Eternal Journals of Crispy Flotilla, is now reprinted in the newly-designed Reprint Poetry.  

||  Ricky Garni's poem "Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms" was published in Issue #16 of Cha and creatively responded on A Cup of Fine Tea. Ricky has a poem forthcoming in the September 2012 issue of the journal.

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

reNicholas Y.B. Wong's poem "An Incredibly Brief Morning Directory to the City", which appropriates a number of Tang poems, is now available in the new issue of Poecology.

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

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's personal and fun essay, "Jewels, Blood and Beeswax", is up at Stymie Magazine. Bill's essay is part of their Why I Write series. 

||  Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poems "Inflation Goosed" and "The Ex-wife" are now available in On Barcelona. 

||  See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 

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Kristine Ong Muslim

Congratulations to Kristine Ong Muslim! Her new poetry collection, Grim Series (Popcorn Press), is now published! You can learn more about this book and read some sample excerpts from Kristine's website.

||  Kristine Ong Muslim's poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha and her poem "Preface to a Pornographer's Dirty Book" is discussed here.

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New updates on 3 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Alvin Pang and W.F. Lantry

Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's poem "Sonata Eyes" (in three parts) is now available in Spinozablue. Do you think the poem has earned its last sentence 'Now: back to love.'? 

|| Ricky Garni's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha. 

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Alvin Pang

Alvin Pang's Other Things and Other Poems, a collection of new and selected poems in English and Croatian translation, is now available from Books Actually. 

|| Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 and issue #16 of the journal.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's new short story, "Whirlwind", which is about the discovery of witches, is now published in the California-based twice-yearly e-zine, Verdad. Read the story here.

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Call for Submissions: Anthology of New Short Stories from Hong Kong

Call for Submissions: Anthology of New Short Stories from Hong Kong

In 2013, CCC Press will publish the sixth anthology in its World Englishes Literature series, a book of new short stories in English(es) from Hong Kong. This follows four volumes of African writing, one of which was shortlisted for the 2011 Caine Prize, and a further volume of short stories from Malaysia (forthcoming, 1 May 2012).

The Hong Kong anthology will be edited by Xu Xi and Marshall Moore.

Contributors should ordinarily be residents of Hong Kong and stories should have Hong Kong or its culture as a theme or setting. The series is designed to represent Anglophone writing in a linguistic context in which English is not the sole or dominant language and to convey a strong sense of place and particular culture. By implication, the volume is not intended as a vehicle for expatriate writers who happen simply to live there temporarily; neither is this a collection of Hong Kong Chinese diaspora writing. However, Hong Kong’s unusual political situation—it has never been an independent nation or city-state—gives rise to an Anglophone writing that departs from the usual colonial and post-colonial literature. Therefore, both expatriate and diaspora authors might, in some instances, render a more persuasive contemporary fiction than a "native" resident.

Should you submit, your story must be original and unpublished in any previous form or by any previous means. It should be not more than 8,000 words in length and submitted electronically in MS Word or a compatible format. While we are open to short-shorts or flash fiction, we are unlikely to consider anything less than 1,000 words in length, or a combination of no more than three pieces by one author that comprise at least 1,000 words. It should be adult fiction (in the sense that it is not children's or YA fiction). It should be written primarily in English and must not be a translation of a previously published work in another language.

Writers may submit any number of stories for consideration, although only one story can be accepted for publication. Payment for published stories will be £50 (GBP). If your story is chosen for the publication, we will ask you to provide a few sentences about yourself and your work (around 200 words).

Please send submissions by email to Marshall Moore at: marshall (at) typhoon-media (dot) com.

SUBMISSIONS should be emailed as a WORD document (.doc) attachment in standard manuscript format, i.e.: double-spaced, 12-point type (serif font like Times or Garamond, no fancy fonts please), with 1” margins on all sides.

In the subject line, be sure to type something along the lines of WORLD ENGLISHES ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSION as well as your name.

Closing date for submissions: NOVEMBER 1, 2012 

To find out more about the series in which this book will be published, please go to http://www.newventures.net/HTM/Butterfly%20Dreams.htm (includes free previews).

• Xu Xi's creative non-fiction was published in issue #6 of Cha.
• Marshall More's essay on publishing in Hong Kong was published in issue #15 of Cha.

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New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Duo Duo, Yibing Huang, Marc Vincenz and Michael O'Sullivan

Duo Duo and Yibing Huang

Duo Duo's 2010 Neustadt Prize Lecture "This Is the Reason We Persevere" is now made available! This lecture was translated from the Chinese into English by Yibing Huang (Mai Mang), who was guest editor of "The China Issue" of Cha. In this lecture, Duo Duo said: '‎Even as I speak, remnants of the 1970s still resound, and contain every echo of the reshaping of one's character. One country, one voice-the poet expels himself from all that. Thus begins writing, thus begins exile. A position approaches me on its own. I am only one man; I establish myself on that. I am only a man.' Read on here.

|| Duo Duo's poetry was published in Issue #14 of Cha. 
|| Read Yibing Huang's Cha profile.


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Marc Vincenz

A brand new poem by Marc Vincenz entitled "Static" is now up at October Babies! The poem opens with these cryptic and interesting lines which hook you in: 'In that year / that was not a year // when the days / were not like days.'   

||  See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.  

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Michael O'Sullivan

Michael O'Sullivan's new book Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History, published by Continuum, is  now out! The book is an exploration of the notion of 'weakness' in different contexts. Of particular interest, at least to me, is the section on Keats, Dickens, Joyce, Beckett and Coetzee. Learn more about the book here.

|| Michael O'Sullivan's poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha. He has also written several reviews for the journal, the most recent one is in Issue #16.

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New updates on 3 Cha contributors: Rumjhum Biswas, Bob Bradshaw and Royston Tester

Rumjhum Biswas

Rumjhum Biswas's poem "The Fish, The Sea, and Me", previously published in Contemporary Rhyme, is now reprinted in Wisdom Crieth Without. The poem has this line: 'There, right there, I found a fish on the sand'. What will happen to this fish? Read on.  

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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Bob Bradshaw

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Coleridge" is now published in the May 2012 issue of Red River Review. Dorothy Wordsworth and her brother appear in the poem too.

|| Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.

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Royston Tester

 Congratulations to Cha's Associate Editor Royston Tester! His second collection of short fiction, Fatty Goes to China, published by Tightrope Books, will be launched on 20 June 2012  (7pm) at Revival, on College Street  in Toronto's Little Italy. The title story "Fatty Goes to China" was published in the March 2012 issue of Cha.

|| Read Royston Tester's Cha profile.

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New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Kristine Ong Muslim, Ocean Vuong, W.F. Lantry and Alistair Noon

Kristine Ong Muslim

Kristine Ong Muslim's story "Moonman" is now published in the April 2012 issue of Phantasmacore. 

|| Kristine Ong Muslim's poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha and her poem "Preface to a Pornographer's Dirty Book" is discussed here.

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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong's poem "Despite Everything, My Dancers" is published in Issue #25 (The Generation Issue) of Hyphen. Read the poem here and learn more about the issue here.

|| Ocean Vuong's poem "Paramour" was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010.

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W.F. Lantry

 Read W.F. Lantry's review of Lisa Viho's The Accidental Present in the latest issue of The Big Bridge.

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Alistair Noon

Alistair Noon's first full-length collection, Earth Records, is due out this month from Nine Arches Press. Alistair is having a book tour to launch the book. He will appear in London (Wed 16 May, Thursday 17 May - the main London launch), Sheffield (Saturday 19 May), Nottingham (Sunday 20 May), Leicester (Monday 21 May) and finally, Berlin (Thursday 24 May - this is the main Berlin launch).

||  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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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: W.F. Lantry, Ricky Garni, Vaughan Rapatahana, Berit Ellingsen and Shivani Sivagurunathan

W.F. Lantry

Two stories by W.F. Lantry are now featured in Curly Red Stories. Read "Reason for Being" and "Desire" and if you like them, leave a comment. 

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile. 

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Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's poem "Seven Old Ladies" is published in the second issue of A Baker's Dozen (you need to scroll down to read the piece). Is it a good idea to take blood pressure medicine? Can you think of any good medicine? Maybe Ricky can answer the second question in his next poem.

|| Ricky Garni's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha. 

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Vaughan Rapatahana

Vaughan Rapatahana's book Philosophical (a)Musings: Colin Wilson, Me + the Meaning of Life is now available. This is a collection of Vaughan's reviews of books by Colin Wilson, author of the seminal The Outsider (1956) and England's leading Existentialist philosopher, as well as his extrapolations from the ideas of Wilson into the realms of original metaphysical philosophy.  

|| Vaughan Rapatahana's poetry was published in Issue #8 of Cha.

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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen's story "Thaumiel's Ears" is included in the first issue of Cutaway Magazine. Learn more about this publication here.

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.

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Shivani Sivagurunathan

Shivani Sivagurunathan's poem "Day at the Mosque" is now published in Construction Magazine. It has this haunting line: 'Who can say that the time is coming, has come, or is here?'

|| Shivani Sivagurunathan's stories were published in Issue #13 and Issue #15 of Cha and her poetry was published in Issue #16 of the journal. 

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New updates on 3 Cha contributors: Alvin Pang, Arjun Rajendran and Vaughan Rapatahana

Alvin Pang

Alvin Pang's When the Barbarians Arrive, a selection of works from his previous five collections, is now available from Arc Publications! The selection ranges from love poems to satirical writing. These are poems that are "wry and shrewd, intelligent and sensitive". They are also "at once recognizably national and international in reach, offering a fresh edgy energy to the wave of urban poetry emerging from Singapore". Learn more about When the Barbarians Arrive here.

|| Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 and issue #16 of the journal.

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Arjun Rajendran

Arjun Rajendran's poems "A reading of Kon-Tiki" and "Memories of Light" are now published in Softblow.

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


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Vaughan Rapatahana

Two poems by Vaughan Rapatahana are now published in Rem Magazine. 

|| Vaughan Rapatahana's poetry was published in Issue #8 of Cha.

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New books by Madeleine Marie Slavick and Leung Ping-kwan

Madeleine Marie Slavick's Fifty Stories Fifty Images

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Fifty Stories Fifty Images, Madeleine Marie Slavick's new book published by MCCM Creations, is a collection of prose and photography. It presents insects and high rises, dentists and trees, laughter and abstractions, and the poetry, poverty and generosity of Madeleine's beloved city, Hong Kong. In late April and the first half of May, Madeleine will be appearing at several book events. Please click on the image above to see the dates and venues. 

Madeleine is a writer and photographer. She has lived in Hong Kong for almost twenty-five years, longer than anywhere else. Her books include Something Beautiful Might Happen,  (reviewed by Alice Tsay in Cha), My Favourite Thing, delicate access (reviewed by Tammy Ho in Asian Review of Books) and Round -- Poems and Photographs of Asia. She writes and photographs everyday on her blog, Touching What I Love.  

Madeleine Marie Slavick's creative non-fiction was published in Issue #14 of Cha. She also contributed a book review to Issue #16 of the journal. 

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Leung Ping-kwan's En ces jours instables

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Date and time: Tuesday 24 April; 1830-20:00 | Location: Parenthèses, 2/F Duke of Wellington House, 14-24 Wellington Street, Central 

You are cordially invited to attend the book launch and reading of Leung Ping-kwan's new poetry book En ces jours instables, a collection of eighteeen Chinese-French poems published by MCCM Creations in April 2012. Poetry readings in French and Chinese with Ping-kwan and the French translator Camille Loivier.

Ping-kwan is Hong Kong's leading poet and he teaches creative writing, literature and film studies at the Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He has published numerous poetry books and short stories. Many of his creative writings are translated into French, including Iles et continents (Gallimard, 2001) and a collection of poetry De çi de là des choses (Editions You-feng, 2006) translated by Annie Curien. 

Leung Ping-Kwan's poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha. His Amblings was reviewed in Issue #15 of the journal.


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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Marc Vincenz, Mani Rao, Eleanor Goodman, Grace V. S. Chin and Rumjhum Biswas

Marc Vincenz, Mani Rao and Eleanor Goodman

The April 2012 issue of Asymptote is now available and you can read Marc Vincenz's Mani Rao's and Eleanor Goodman's work in it.

|| Read Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 

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

|| Eleanor Goodman's poetry and translation were published in Issue 14 of Cha.

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Grace V. S. Chin

In the Spotlight: Bruneian Plays in English, an anthology edited by Grace V. S. Chin, is now published! Learn more about the book here.

|| Grace V. S. Chin's poetry was published in Issue #4 and Issue #5 of Cha. Her poem "Clotheslines" was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. 

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Rumjhum Biswas

 Congratulations to Rumjhum Biswas! Her short story "The Well" has been named the winner of Anam Cara Short Fiction Competition. The judge Vanessa Gebbie has the following to say about Rumjhum's work: "I thought the interpretation of the theme was great - slightly off-centre, unexpected and original. So many congratulations to the writer". Rumjhum has won a place on Vanessa Gebbie's short fiction retreat. Learn more about the competition and other winning stories here. 

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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