Cha's 2013 Pushcart Nominations

We at Cha would like to announce our nominations for the 2012 Pushcart Prize:

• "Sonia Wants to Rent An Apartment" by José Manuel Sevilla (March 2012)
• "When I Was the Chinaman's Granddaughter-In-Law" by Dena Rash Guzman (March 2012)
• "Winter Seclusion" by John Givens (June 2012)
• "Change Your Heart; Look Around You" by Daryl Yam (June 2012)
• "Huang Yong Ping" by Joshua Burns (September 2012)
• "Unpacking" by Nicholas Francis (November 2012)

Congratulations to the above nominees. We wish you the best of luck and thank you for letting us publish your wonderful work.
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Also see our Best of the Net nominations this year.-

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CHA's Best of the Net 2012 Nominations

We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work, selected from the July 2011, November 2011, March 2012 and June 2012 issues of Cha, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2012 (published by Sundress). Congratulations to these writers and good luck!

|| Arthur Leung, "Earthen Houses" (issue #14, July 2011) || Read an analysis of the poem here ||

|| Robert Masterson, "To the State Electrical Worker" (issue #15, November 2011) || Read an analysis of the poem here ||

|| José Manuel Sevilla, "Sonia Wants to Rent an Apartment" (issue #16, March 2012) || First prize winner of Cha's "Encountering Poetry" Contest || 

|| Ricky Garni, "Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms" (issue #16, March 2012) || Read a creative response to the poem here ||

|| Julian Stannard, "Winston and Candy" (issue #17, June 2012) ||

|| Daryl Yam, "Change Your Heart; Look Around You" (issue #17, June 2012) || 

|| Michael Slaby, "The Beautiful Branca" (issue #14, July 2011) || 

|| Chris Galvin Nguyen, "The Flood Season" (issue #16, March 2012) || 

|| Helena Hu, "The Last Resident" (issue #17, June 2012) || 

|| John Givens, "Winter Seclusion" (issue #17, June 2012) || 

Iris A. Law's "Circumnavigation" (issue #7) was selected for publication in Best of the Net 2009. Lillian Kwok's "Departure" (issue #8) and Elizabeth Weinberg's "The Earth That Stands Before Us" (issue #12) were selected as a Finalist in 2010 and 2011 respectively.