New updates on 6 Cha contributors: W.F. Lantry, Lee Herrick, Jennifer Wong, Alvin Pang, Craig Santos Perez and Bryan Thao Worra

W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's short story "Arboretum" is published in the Summer 2012 issue of JMWW. 

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Lee Herrick

Two poems by Lee Herrick, "Van Gogh Writes to Gaugin" and "Focus Theory", are published in the Spring 2012 issue of Pebble Lake Review. 

|| Lee Herrick's poetry was published in issue #4 of Cha.


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Jennifer Wong, Alvin Pang, Craig Santos Perez and Bryan Thao Worra 

As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Southbank Centre held a week-long Poetry Parnassus, bringing poets from all the competing Olympic nations together. You can read poems by Jennifer Wong - Hong Kong ("Glimpse"), Alvin Pang - Singapore ("When the Barbarians Arrive"), Craig Santos Perez - Guam ("from preterrain") and Bryan Thao Worra - Laos ("No Regrets"), alongside with poems by all other representing poets using the Guardian interactive map. 

|| Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.
|| 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.
|| Craig Santos Perez's review was been published in issue #9 of Cha.
|| Bryan Thao Worra's poetry was published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. His poem "Zelkova Tree" was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.
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New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Jennifer Wong, Greg Santos, Berit Ellingsen and Dena Rash Guzman

Jennifer Wong

Jennifer Wong's poem "Queen's Pier Central" (originally published in her collection Summer Cicadas) is reprinted in Apple Daily, a Hong Kong Chinese-language newspaper (but the poem is in English!). The poem is published alongside an article on Jenny, who will be representing Hong Kong and reading her poetry at Poetry Parnassus (part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad). Read the poem and the article on Jenny's blog.

|| Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

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Greg Santos

Greg Santos's "Facebook Status Found Poem" can now be found in Internet Poetry. As the title of the piece suggests, Greg culled this poem from his Facebook friends' status updates. Interestingly, it has this line: 'Crispin Best is an English dude.' Indeed he is! Read the rest of the poem here.

|| Greg Santos's poem "Siem Reap, Cambodia" was published in issue #10 of Cha and discussed here. 

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Berit Ellingsen

"Crane Legs", a poetic flash story by Berit Ellingsen, can be read on FlashFlood, a project which celebrates Flash Fiction Day. 

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.

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Dena Rash Guzman

A  powerful poem by Dena Rash Guzman, "the greatest famine in history", is now published in Ink Node. '[H]e snapped and tanks shot concrete like semen', 'children died / eating pond scum' and 'mao souvenir / alarm clock will never tell time' are just some of the memorable images/ideas from the poem. Read the whole poem here.

||  Dena Rash Guzman's poetry was published in Issue #15 and Issue #16 of Cha.

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Jennifer Wong in Reprint Poetry

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Jennifer Wong's poem "The Last Monologues", first published in Glass, is now featured in Reprint Poetry. 

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Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

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Jennifer Wong reviews for Eyewear

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Jennifer Wong's review of Frances Horovitz's Collected Poems. is now available on EYEWEAR. Read the review here.

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Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

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Jennifer Wong in Streetcake

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Jennifer Wong's poem "Love" is published in the September 2011 issue of Streetcake. Download the PDF and read the poem, which is on the final page.

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Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

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Jennifer Wong in Eyewear

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Jennifer Wong's poem "The Last Monologues" is now featured on Eyewear. Read it here.
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Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.
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Jennifer Wong in Fox Chase Review

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Read Jennifer Wong's two new poems "Praiado Titan" and "Kwan Yin" in the September 2011 issue of Fox Chase Review.

Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

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Cha contributors in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

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Three Cha contributors have new works published in the April 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Jennifer Wong's poem "The Find" and story "The Assistant"; Bernard Henrie's poem "The Moon a Late Bus"; and O Thiam Chin's story "Sleeping". The issue also contains "Hiding Behind the Maple Leaf" by Cyril Wong.
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• Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.
• Bernard Henrie's poetry was published in Issue 9 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.

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Jennifer Wong in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

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Jennifer Wong's poetry sequence "The Last Monologues" is now published in the latest issue of Glass. Read it here. 

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Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

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Jennifer Wong reviews The Surreal House

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Read Jennifer Wong's review of The Surreal House, now available on the Tate website. The book is edited by Jane Alison (Senior Curator of Barbican Art Gallery) and designed by Angus Hyland. It includes by Jane Alison, Mary Ann Caws, Brian Dillon and Dalibor Vesely.

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Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

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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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Jennifer Wong on Manchester Lit List

Two short poems by Cha contributor Jennifer Wong, "Canary Wharf" and "Regent's Park", are now published on the Manchester Lit List website. Read them here.

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Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

Jennifer Wong in Evening Standard

Jennifer Wong's brief review of "The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and his Letters" has been published in London Evening Standard. Read it here (Ssroll down the page to the "Readers Reviews" section).
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Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

CHA contributors in Mascara Literary Review 6

The sixth issue of Mascara Literary Review has now been launched and it features poetry by Cha contributors Jennifer Wong, Arthur Leung and Priyadarshi Patnaik. Read Arthur's "Kiss of the Moon" and "Angler Fish Sashimi" here; read Jennifer's "Myth", "I Remember" and "Knack" here and read Priyadarshi Patnaik's "My Daughter's Shadow", "Night at Jagannatha Temple" and "The Song" here.

• Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.
• Read Arthur Leung's Cha profile.
• Priyadarshi Patnaik's photograph "Flight of the Toads" is the cover image of issue #9 of Cha.

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UEA Anthology Launch Party

Cha contributor Jennifer Wong is featured in the poetry anthology. Congratulations, Jenny!

Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.
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Best of the Net 2009 Nominations

Cha is happy to announce that we have decided to nominate the following pieces of work for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2009, published by Sundress Publications. Congratulations to these writers and good luck!

Poems nominated by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal for inclusion in Best of the Net 2009:

= Reid Mitchell, "Flowers Are As Permanent As Brick" (issue #4, August 2008)

= Isabela Banzon, "Kids Everywhere and You and Me in Nowhere" (issue #4, August 2008)

= Jennifer Wong, "Companions" (issue #5, November 2008)

= Phoebe Tsang, "Song for a Commuting Gravedigger" (issue #6, February 2009)

= Gillian Sze, "Sonnet II" (issue #6, February 2009)

= Iris A. Law, "Circumnavigation" (issue #7, May 2009)

Short stories nominated by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal for inclusion in Best of the Net 2009:

= Nirmala Pillai, "The Killing" (issue #5, November 2008)

= Caitlin Militello, "Coming of Age" (issue #7, May 2009)

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