Kavita Jindal wins Foyles's Haruki Murakami Short Story Competition

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Congratulations to Cha contributor Kavita Jindal. She is named winner of the Haruki Murakami Short Story Competition, organised by London's Foyles in association with Murakami's publisher, Harvill Secker.

Haruki Murakami selected one line from his latest novel 1Q84 ('Carrying a single bag, the young man is travelling alone at his whim with no particular destination in mind.'), which entrants used to begin a short story (no more than 1500 words). Liz Foley, who is Murakami's publisher at Harvill Secker, acted as the judge.

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You can learn more about the competition and read Kavita's story here.
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Kavita Jindal's poetry was published in Issue #1 of Cha.
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Kavita Jindal reviews for Eyewear

Read Kavita Jindal's review of Tradesman's Exit by Mike Bartholomew-Biggs on Eyewear here.

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Kavita Jindal's poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.

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Kavita Jindal is a featured poet on Eyewear

Kavita Jindal's poem "Chaining the Ecstatic" is featured on Eyewear. Read it here.

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Kavita Jindal's poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.

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Kavita Jindal in Writers' Hub

Cha contributor Kavita Jindal is a regular feature writer for the Birkbeck Writers' Hub website where she writes about trends in literature from the Indian subcontinent. Her first article is "Assassins, Other Wonders and Realism". You can read it here.

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Kavita Jindal's poetry has been published in issue #1 of Cha.

CHA contributors in Asia Literary Review

Apart from Kavita Jindal, Cha contributors Michelle Cahill, Louise Ho and Andrew Barker also have poetry published in the Summer 2009 issue of Asia Literary Review.

Read Michelle's poems "The Spirit House" and "The Deva Loka", Andrew's poems "15: I'm Cut then Accused of Weilding the Knife [She]" and "16: You Found the Love You Had Sought [He]" and Louise's poems "A Veteran Talking", "Incense Tree", "Cock-a-doodle-doo", "Dusk" and "A Poem is Like" in the handsomely-designed new issue of ALR.

• Michelle Cahill's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha.
• Andrew Barker's poetry was published in issue #7 of Cha.
• Louise Ho's poetry was published in issue #4 of Cha.

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Kavita Jindal in Asia Literary Review

Kavita Jinda's two poems "These Are My Excuses" and "Where Home Was" are published in the Summer 2009 issue of Asia Literary Review.

Kavita Jindal's poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.

Kavita Jindal and the Poetry Society

Kavita Jindal will be organising the following events for the Poetry Society's Centenary in 2009 at Osterley Park & House, a National Trust property in London.

1. June 28 Poetry Tent and Poetry Competition

2. August 30 Poetry Workshop

3. September 27 Poetry Workshop

Please see here for more details

Kavita Jindal's poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.

NOT A MUSE

Cha excitedly announces the launch of Not A Muse. Not A Muse is edited by Viki Holmes (Cha contributor) and Kate Rogers and published by Haven Books.

The anthology includes poems by "over 100 sensational contributors from 24 countries including". The following Cha contributors are featured in the long-awaited anthology: Agnes Lam (issue#2), Anindita Sengupta (issue#3), Kavita Jindal (issue#1), Louise Ho (issue#4), Luisa A Igloria (issue#2), Mani Rao (issue#1), Michelle Cahill (issue#2), Phoebe Tsang (issue#6), Sridala Swami (issue#3), Tammy Ho Lai-Ming (co-editor of Cha) and Viki Holmes (issue#3).

You can find more detail about the launch of Not A Muse on the Haven Books website and the the Man Kong International Literary Festival 2009 website.

If you are in Hong Kong, do join the launch party!