New Updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Donna Vorreyer, Christopher Anthony Leibow, Bob Bradshaw and Murli Melwani

Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's four new poems "Well If That's The Way It Must Be, OK", "Stroll by Numbers", "Magic" and "1961" are now published in the latest edition of Softblow.

|| 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. His poem "Tarsier" was published in Issue #18 of Cha,

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Donna Vorreyer

Donna Vorreyer has two new poems, "Bringing in the Sheaves" and "Mailing a Snowflake", featured in the Fall 2012 issue of Apple Valley Review. 

|| Donna Vorreyer's poetry was published in Issue #17 of Cha. 

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Christopher Anthony Leibow

A poem by Christopher Anthony Leibow , "Abandon", has been translated into Crimean Tartar and published in Nazar Look. You can read the original and the translation as well as an interview with Christopher, alongside with some of his art pieces here.

|| Christopher Anthony Leibow's artwork was published in Issue #17 of Cha. 

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Bob Bradshaw

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Visiting Mother's Grave" is now available in the August 2012 issue of Drowning in My Own Fears.

|| Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.

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Murli Melwani

Murli Melwani's real life story about his father, "An Exile All His Life", is now available in Under the Banyan Tree.

|| Murli Melwani's fiction "Freezing Time" was published in Issue #18 of Cha.

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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 5 Cha contributors: Nicolette Wong, Bob Bradshaw, John McKernan, Marc Vincenz and W.F. Lantry

Nicolette Wong

Nicolette Wong's four prose poems, "The Glassblower", "Hinamatsuri", "Treehouse" and "Pith", are published in Escape Into Life. Read them here.

|| Nicolette Wong's short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.
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Bob Bradshaw

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Soon", previously published in Mannequin Envy, is now available in Reprint Poetry. The poem describes a haunting picnic experience and contains this very lovely line: 'his kisses more memorable than any sermon'.

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John McKernan

John McKernan's poem "Why Do You Write These Poems?" is featured in Issue #22 of Emprise Review. Actually / I am not writing this poem / I am erasing it...

|| John McKernan's poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha and is forthcoming in the June 2012 issue.  His poem"We Used Chalk" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2012.  
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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poem "Wolfboy" can now be read on October Babies. The poem was previously published in Brink Magazine.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's poem "Remembrance" is now published in the June 2012 issue of Flutter Poetry.

 || Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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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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Bob Bradshaw in Flutter Poetry Journal

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Bob Bradshaw's poem "Giraffes" is now published in Flutter Poetry Journal. Read it here.

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Bob Bradshaw in Lily

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Bob Bradshaw's new poem "Amelia was Crying a River" is now published in the February 2012 issue of Lily, a monthly literary review.
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Cha - Call for Submissions - Issue #17 (June 2012)

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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its June 2012 issue (Issue # 17).

Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 15 March, 2012.

Former contributors Divya Rajan (poetry) and Bob Bradshaw (prose) will act as guest editors and read the submissions with co-editors Tammy Ho and Jeff Zroback. Please contact Reviews Editor Eddie Tay at eddie@asiancha.com if you want to review a book or have a book reviewed in the journal.

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Bob Bradshaw in Golden Sparrow Literary Review

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Bob Bradshaw's new poem "Plunge" is now published in the new Golden Sparrow Literary Review. The poem opens with these vivid lines:

The streets fill with lovely women
the way streams grow crowded
with trout and salmon.

Read the rest of the poem here. You can also read Bob's poem "Caboose", also published in Golden Sparrow, here.

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Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is TEN years old!

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"You might also guess that I've never really been one for milestones. For me, the word is only one letter removed from millstones."
-Toh Hsien Min

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Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (est. 2001), the first online independent literary periodical based in Singapore, turns 10! Remarkable!

Happy Birthday!

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In its tenth anniversary issue, you can find the following works by Cha contributors: Arjun Rajedran's "Elegy of the adulteress", Bernard Henrie's "Jiating Pavilion", Bob Bradshaw's "A Poem after Tu Fu", Heng Siok Tian's "Whose song is it anyway?", O Thiam Chin's "You Are Always Here, All The Time" and Cyril Wong's "Open Season on Martin Amis". Make sure to read Toh Hsien Min's editorial "Age is just a number" as well.

"Here's to a good one, and the next ten."
-Toh Hsien Min

• Arjun Rajedran's poetry was published in Issue 11 of Cha.
• Bernard Henrie's poetry was published in Issue 9 of Cha and is forthcoming in Issue #15 of Cha.
• See Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.
• Heng Siok Tian's poetry was published in Issue 1 of Cha.
• O Thiam Chin's short story "Pebbles" was published in Issue #8 of Cha.
• Cyril Wong's poetry was published in issue#1 of Cha.
• Toh Hsien Min's poetry was published in issue #5 of Cha.

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Bob Bradshaw, Vineet Kaul and Changming Yuan in Loch Raven Review

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Cha contributors Bob Bradshaw, Vineet Kaul and Changming Yuan have new work published in the Summer 2011 issue of Loch Raven Review. Read Bob's "Pluto",Vineet's "Beauty is the Beguile in the Eye of the Beholder" and "The Kit and Caboodle of Collective Silence" and Changming's "Bodhi Meditation".

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• Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.
• Vineet Kaul's poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha.
• Changming Yuan's poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha.

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Bob Bradshaw in Halfway Down the Stairs

Halfway Down the Stairs has just published its September 2011 issue with the theme "We all fall down". Bob Bradshaw has a new poem, "Riding Bulls", featured in the issue. Read it here.

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Bob Bradshaw and Sam Byfield in Lily

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Bob Bradshaw's poem "Vincent Writes from Saint-Paul Hospital" and Sam Byfield's "The Mountain and the River" are now published in the June 2011 issue of Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review. 

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• Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.
• Read Sam Byfield's Cha profile.

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Bob Bradshaw in Eclectica Magazine

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Bob Bradshaw's new poem "Cutting Down the Backyard Tress" is now published in the April/May 2011 issue of Eclectica Magazine. Read the poem here.


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Bob Bradshaw in Eclectica Magazine

Bob Bradshaw has a new poem, "Building A Plane", in the new issue of Eclectica Magazine. "Clouds like surf stretched towards Japan. // I started work on the plane's belly, / and lived inside it for months." -- read the rest of the poem here.  

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Bob Bradshaw in TRIAGE

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Bob Bradshaw's new poem "Twin Sisters, Separated at 2" is now published in the début issue of TRIAGE: A Journal of Excellent Poetry. Read the poem here.

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Bob Bradshaw in Blue Fifth Review

Bob Bradshaw's new poem "Maintaining Control" is published in the Fall 2010 issue of Blue Fifth Review. Read it here.

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Bob Bradshaw and Lee Yew Leong in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

Read Bob Bradshaw's "Nights in the Forbidden City", Lee Yew Leong's "mr cognito’s induction into the mile high club" and "Honey, I’m Off To Be A Jellyfish Now". in the latest issue (October 2010) of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.

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• Yew Leong Lee's short story "The Disappearance" was published in Issue#6 of Cha.

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Bob Bradshaw in The Orange Room Review

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962" is now published in The Orange Room Review. Read it here.

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Bob Bradshaw's poems critiqued

Two poems by Bob Bradshaw, "Marry Me" and "Praise for Wyatt" are available for reading on the Winning Writers website. Tracy Koretsky at WW has used the poems in an essay to talk about poetry, and how these poems could be improved. You can read Bob's poems and Tracy's essay here.

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Bob Bradshaw in Loch Raven Review

Bob Bradshaw's two new poems, "Dear Brother" and "Monet's Water Lilies" are now published in the Summer 2010 issue of Loch Raven Review. Read them here.

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