Cha - Call for Submissions - Issue #25 (September 2014)

due out in September 2014.

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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue #25, scheduled for publication in September 2014.

Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 15 June, 2014.

Nicholas Y.B. Wong (poetry) and Rheea Mukherjee (prose) will act as guest editors and read the submissions with the editors. 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.

We love returning contributors — past contributors are very welcome to send us their new works.

If you have any questions, please feel free to write to any of the Cha staff at editors@asiancha.com.-

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Cha's March 2013 Issue (#20) Launch Reading at AWP

There will be a launch reading for the March 2013 issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal at AWP. The event will be hosted by guest editors Kaitlin Solimine and Marc Vincenz and co-hosted by the Fairbank Center forChinese Studies at Harvard University.

Feature readings by past and current Cha contributors Eleanor Goodman, Bill Lantry, Kim Liao, Mai Mang (Yibing Huang), Tracy Slater, Marc Vincenz, and Nicholas YB Wong. 

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi and Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi

A new issue of Mascara Literary Review, edited by Michelle Cahill, is out. It features poetry by Mani Rao and Grace Chin, fiction by Ankur Agarawal and creative non-fiction by Sushma Joshi. 

|| Mani Rao's poetry was published in Issue #1 of Cha.

|| Grace V. S. Chin's poetry was published in Issue #4 and Issue #5 of Cha. Her poem "Clotheslines" was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. 

|| Read Ankur Agarwal's Cha profile.

|| Sushma Joshi's fiction has been published in issue #3 of Cha.

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Four stunning poems by Nicholas Y.B. Wong, "TOYS "Я" US", "Blown", "American Standard" and "Five Steps on Expository Writing: Origin of Hydrophilia", are included in the Fall 2012 issue of superstition [review]. 

|| Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha's profile here.

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Marc Vincenz, Berit Ellingsen, W.F. Lantry and Murli Melwani

Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Nicholas Y.B. Wong's poem "Common" and its Chinese translation are now published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review.

|| Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha's profile here.

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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poem "Similar" can now be read on October Babies.
and trees whisper pheromones, 

|| Read Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 

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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen's "How These Games Work" is featured in Pure Slush. 

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.  

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W.F. Lantry

Two poems by W.F. Lantry, "To Have and Have Not" and "Oz in the Jungle" are included in Now Culture's "Poetry At the Movies" issue. Remember to listen to the lovely recordings of the poems as well.

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Murli Melwani

Murli Melwani's short story "Teesta Holiday" (pp. 71-77) is now available in the Fall issue of Mount Hope Magazine.

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

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ocean Vuong, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Ricky Garni, Marc Vincenz and Eddie Tay

Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong's poem "Prayer for the Newly Damned" is now published in the September/October 2012 issue of the American Poetry Review.  

|| Ocean Vuong's poem "Paramour" was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010.

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Nicholas Y.B. Wong's "Privilege of Morning" is included in the latest edition of the Notre Dame Review. While you can't read the poem online, you can read "Ode to Objects", "Mirr-man-or" and "Epoch of Metallic Migration", which are available are available on the nd[re]view website (the online companion of the Notre Dame Review). Read the three poems and Nicholas's commentary here.

||  Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha's profile here.

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Ricky Garni

Two poems by Ricky Garni, "Be Prepared" and "It's Not A Cat's World", are published in the August 2012 issue of Subliminal Interiors. Which one do you like more? 

|| Ricky Garni's poem "Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms" was published in Issue #16 of Cha and creatively responded on A Cup of Fine Tea. Ricky has a poem forthcoming in the September 2012 issue of the journal.

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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poems "Yet Another Reincarnation" and "Apples" are published in issue 55 of Tears in the Fence. The issue is a 176 page bumper issue and features the work of many talented writers and poets. Learn more about Tears in the Fence here. 

||  See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 

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Eddie Tay

Congratulations to our very own Eddie Tay! His poetry collection The Mental Life of Cities is 1 of 4 books shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize this year. Good luck, Eddie! The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony later this year.

Leonard Ng's This Mortal World, which we reviewed in Cha, is also on the shortlist.

|| Eddie Tay is Reviews Editor of Cha.

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, W.F. Lantry, Marc Vincenz and Kristine Ong Muslim

Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's delightful poem "Wednesday", first published in his collection The Eternal Journals of Crispy Flotilla, is now reprinted in the newly-designed Reprint Poetry.  

||  Ricky Garni's poem "Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms" was published in Issue #16 of Cha and creatively responded on A Cup of Fine Tea. Ricky has a poem forthcoming in the September 2012 issue of the journal.

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

reNicholas Y.B. Wong's poem "An Incredibly Brief Morning Directory to the City", which appropriates a number of Tang poems, is now available in the new issue of Poecology.

||  Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha's profile here.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's personal and fun essay, "Jewels, Blood and Beeswax", is up at Stymie Magazine. Bill's essay is part of their Why I Write series. 

||  Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poems "Inflation Goosed" and "The Ex-wife" are now available in On Barcelona. 

||  See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 

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Kristine Ong Muslim

Congratulations to Kristine Ong Muslim! Her new poetry collection, Grim Series (Popcorn Press), is now published! You can learn more about this book and read some sample excerpts from Kristine's website.

||  Kristine Ong Muslim's poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha and her poem "Preface to a Pornographer's Dirty Book" is discussed here.

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Wendy Xu, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, W.F. Lantry, Alistair Noon and Rumjhum Biswas

Wendy Xu 

"I WAS NOT EVEN BORN WHEN YOU BECAME AN EXPERT", a poem co-written by Wendy Xu and Nick Sturm, is published in the Summer 2012 issue of Birdfeast. You know, we are all made of very small particles...

|| Wendy Xu's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha. 

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Nicholas Y.B. Wong's poem "Buddha’s Public Lecture: Who is Afraid of Ai" is now available in the fourth issue of Buddhist Poetry Review. How much do you know about the Chinese word 'love'?

|| Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha's profile here.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's topical poem "Derecho", which concerns the recent storm, is now published in The New Verse News. Yes, and even now butterflies resume their dance...

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Alistair Noon

Alistair Noon's Earth Records and three other publications are extensively, intensively and generously (stealing Alistair's words) reviewed by Peter Riley at The Fortnightly Review. I am so glad to see this review - I am a big fan of TFR! 

|| Alistair Noon's poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem "The Expat Partner: An Email" is discussed here.

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Rumjhum Biswas

Two pieces of work by Rumjhum Biswas were featured in the June 2012 issue of Spark. Read Rumjhum's flash story "Rainbow" and poem "The Day Heaven Came Down". What to do when Heaven came down / and scoop you up / in copious soft-as-cloud arms?

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Christopher Leibow, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Kaitlin Solimine and Jason Lee

Christopher Anthony Leibow

Christopher Anthony Leibow's "I will draw two ravens" (in five poems) is now available in Reprint Poetry, a new publication which is interested in resurrecting previously published poetry.

|| Christopher Anthony Leibow's artwork is forthcoming in the June 2012 issue of Cha. 


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Nicholas Y.B. Wong and Kaitlin Solimine 

Nicholas Y.B. Wong's poems "An Incredibly Brief Morning Directory to the City" (pp. 52-53) and "Mirr-man-or" (pp. 104-105) and Kaitlin Solimine's short story "Flying Lesson" (pp. 84-98) are included in the new edition of Two Thirds North. Download the entire issue here (pdf). 

||  See Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha's profile here.
|| Kaitlin Solimine's fiction was published in Issue #14 of Cha.

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Jason Lee

Congratulations to Jason Lee! his poetry manuscript has been shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poery Prize, run by Eyewear Publishing. 

|| Read Jason Lee's Cha profile. His poem "45 Belgrave Square", published in Issue #6 of the journal, was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

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New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Nicholas Wong, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Wendy Xu and W. F. Lantry

Nicholas Wong

Nicholas Wong has a new poem in The Pinch. The piece, "Meditations on How to Break up with my Sick Boyfriend", is the poem of the month on the site. Another poem by Nick is forthcoming in the Fall 2012 print issue.  

|| See Nicholas Wong's Cha's profile here.

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Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Wendy Xu

A new issue of Drunken Boat is out! Read Fiona Sze-Lorrain's translation of Yang Jian's poems "Winter Day" and "Ancient Mansion" and Wendy Xu's "Ruptured Heart Theory" in the issue.

|| Fiona Sze-Lorrain's poetry was published in Issue 12 of Cha and her book Water The Moon is reviewed in the same issue.
|| Wendy Xu's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha. 

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W. F. Lantry

Congratulations to W.F. Lantry! He has won The Linnet's Wings inaugural prize for poetry, in audio with the poem "Ocotillo Wells", from his chapbook Journey to the Interior. Learn more about The Linnet's Wings and the prize here.

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Winne Chau, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Alistair Noon, Luisa A. Igloria and Marc Vincenz

Winnie Chau and Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Read Winnie Chau's theatre review of Pains of Youth and an interview with Nicholas Y.B. Wong in the latest issue of Time Out Hong Kong.

See Nicholas Wong's Cha's profile here 

Winnie Chau's poem "her story" was published in Issue #4 of Cha

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Alistair Noon

Excerpt from Alistair Noon's "At the Atlantic" can now be read in The Bangor Daily News' Uni-Verse column.  

Alistair Noon's poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem "The Expat Partner: An Email" is discussed here.

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Luisa A. Igloria

 Luisa A. Igloria's tweet poem is featured on NPR's "Tell Me More" show. You can read the story and listen to the audio here. Luisa's poem begins with the line 'Remember when summers'...

Luisa A. Igloria's poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 of Cha

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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poem "For the Shadow Council,", first published in Exquisite Corpse, is now on October Babies. You can also listen to Marc's audio recording of the poem.

Read Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.

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