New updates on 7 Cha contributors: Ivy Alvarez, Bob Bradshaw, Arjun Rajendran, Kaitlin Solimine, W.F. Lantry, Murli Melwani and Ricky Garni

Ivy Alvarez

"Tumbling", a poem by Ivy Alvarez, is now available in the August/September edition of Our Own Voice. 

|| See Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile. 

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Bob Bradshaw and Arjun Rajendran

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear" and Arjun Rajendran's poem "First Day at a New School" are now publsihed in the August 2012 issue of Red River Review. 

|| Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.

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

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Kaitlin Solimine

Kaitlin Solimine's invaluable personal essay "The Chinese Expat in Exile" is now published in The World of Chinese. 

|| Kaitlin Solimine's fiction was published in Issue #14 of Cha.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's poem "Autumn" is featured in the Fall 2012 issue of Stone Voices. Learn more about the publication here.

||  Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Murli Melwani

A new short story by Murli Melwani entitled "Those Seasons of Contentment" is included in the August 2012 issue of Open Road Review. 'Between the marble and kite seasons was the tops season'...

|| Murli Melwani's fiction "Freezing Time" is forthcoming in Issue #18 of Cha, due out in late September 2012.

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Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's new poems "The Really Lone Ranger" and "A Look Inside" are published in The Bakery yesterday and today respectively. You can also listen to Ricky's recordings of the two pieces on the Bakery website. Don't you think "A Look Inside" is very interesting? Where does Ricky get all these ideas? A third poem is forthcoming tomorrow. 

|| Ricky Garni's poem "Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms" was published in Issue #16 of Cha and was creatively responded on A Cup of Fine Tea. Ricky's poem "Tarsier" is forthcoming in Issue #18 of Cha, due out in late September 2012.

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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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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 updates on 5 Cha contributors: Judith Huang, Arjun Rajendran, Marc Vincenz, J.H. Martin and W.F. Lantry

Judith Huang

Read Judith Huang's article "Finding the Magic in Light" in China Daily.

Judith Huang's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha

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Arjun Rajendran

Two poems by Arjun Rajendran, "pyre" and "Picnic", are now published in the latest issue of Eclectica Magazine.   

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

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Marc Vincenz

 Marc Vincenz's poem "Corruption" is featured in the Spring 2012 issue of The Potomac Journal. 
Read Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.

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J.H. Martin

The first issue of Incandescent, a new Hull-based poetry book, is now available. J.H. Martin's poem "Burn it all away" is included in it. More information about this new publication can be found here.

J.H. Martin's poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's poem "Mousetrap" is published in Issue 9 of Swale Life Magazine. 

Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.   

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