Nirmala Pillai in Asia Writes

Cha contributor Nirmala Pillai's short story "Raw Smoke" is featured at Asia Writes.

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Nirmala Pillai's fiction has been published in issue #5 of Cha.

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Nirmala Pillai in Literature SouthWest

Nirmala Pillai's poems "Cell Poetry" and "Meeting Again" are now published in Literature SouthWest.

Nirmala Pillai's fiction has been published in issue #5 of Cha.

Nirmala Pillai in Foundling Review

Nirmala Pillai's new poem "Growing Distances" is now published in Foundling Review. Read the poem here.

Nirmala Pillai's fiction has been published in issue #5 of Cha.

Best of the Web 2010 Nominations

Cha's nominations for the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2010 print anthology are:

-"The Killing" (fiction) by Nirmala Pillai, issue #5 November 2008
-"45 Belgrave Square" (poetry) by Jason Lee, issue #6 February 2009
-"Taste" (fiction) by Surajit Chakravarty, issue #7 May 2009

Congratulations to all the nominees. We wish you the best of luck.

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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Nirmala Pillai in Kritya

Nirmala Pillai's poem "Cock Crow at Mumbai" and two other poems, "Kerala, Bride of the Rain Gods" and "The New Script" are now published in the July 2009 issue of Kritya: A Journal of Poetry.

Nirmala Pillai's fiction has been published in issue #5 of Cha.

Nirmala Pillai

Nirmala Pillai's new poem "Vanity's Edge" is now published in the Spring 2009 issue of Bare Root Review, the journal of the Department of Creative Writing, Minnesota University.

Nirmala Pillai's fiction has been published in issue #5 of Cha.