New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min and Wendy Xu

Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min

It is always exciting to read a new issue of QLRS. In the current issue, you can read "Our Greatest Years Have Passed Like Flowers", a poem by Leanne Dunic;  "The Years", a short story by O Thiam Chin; "A Room for Three", a short story by Ouyang Yu; and a review by Toh Hsien Min. Read the entire new issue of QLRS here.

|| Leanne Dunic's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha.

|| O Thiam Chin's short story "Pebbles" was published in Issue #8 of Cha.

|| Ouyang Yu's poem "Bad English" was published in issue #4 of Cha and analysed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

|| Toh Hsien Min's poetry was published in issue #5 of Cha.

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Wendy Xu

Wendy Xu in the new edition of Connotation Press - "Reasons People Go to the Theatre", "Unapologetic Poem" and "Something Else Is Burning So You Don't Have To". There is also an interview with Wendy. 

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

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Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is TEN years old!

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"You might also guess that I've never really been one for milestones. For me, the word is only one letter removed from millstones."
-Toh Hsien Min

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Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (est. 2001), the first online independent literary periodical based in Singapore, turns 10! Remarkable!

Happy Birthday!

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In its tenth anniversary issue, you can find the following works by Cha contributors: Arjun Rajedran's "Elegy of the adulteress", Bernard Henrie's "Jiating Pavilion", Bob Bradshaw's "A Poem after Tu Fu", Heng Siok Tian's "Whose song is it anyway?", O Thiam Chin's "You Are Always Here, All The Time" and Cyril Wong's "Open Season on Martin Amis". Make sure to read Toh Hsien Min's editorial "Age is just a number" as well.

"Here's to a good one, and the next ten."
-Toh Hsien Min

• Arjun Rajedran's poetry was published in Issue 11 of Cha.
• Bernard Henrie's poetry was published in Issue 9 of Cha and is forthcoming in Issue #15 of Cha.
• See Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.
• Heng Siok Tian's poetry was published in Issue 1 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.
• Toh Hsien Min's poetry was published in issue #5 of Cha.

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An interview with Toh Hsien Min in Prick of the Spindle

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Toh Hsien Min was interviewed by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé about his book Means To An End. The interview was published in the June 2010 issue of Prick of the Spindle. Read it here.

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Also read a review of Means to an End in Cha here.

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Toh Hsien Min's poetry was published in issue #5 of Cha.
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Cha contributors' books are shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2010

Congratulations to Cha contributors Wena Poon and Toh Hsien Min! Their books -- Wena's The Proper Care of Foxes and Hsien Min's Means to An End -- are shortlisteded for the Singapore Literature Prize 2010, run by the National Book Development Council of Singapore. You can read the press release here (pdf).

Both books were reviewed in Cha:

READ a review of The Proper Care of Foxes here.

READ a review of Means to an End here.

• Wena Poon's poem "Copernicus for a Singaporean Grandmother" was published in Issue #10 of Cha.
• Toh Hsien Min's poems "Auguste Escoffier", "Advice to the Temp Handing out Flyers" and "After Catullus" were published in issue#5 of Cha.

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CHA contributors in QLRS

Cha contributors Lee Yew Leong, Eddie Tay, O Thiam Chin and Toh Hsien Min have creative works published in the July 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Lee Yew Leong's poem "On a Scale of 1: ∞", Eddie Tay's poem "for arthur yap", O Thiam Chin's short story "Garoupa" and view Toh Hsien Min's photographs of Seoul at night, "Film Noir Korea" in the new issue of QLRS.

• Yew Leong Lee's short story "The Disappearance" was published in the February 2009 issue (issue#6) of Cha.
• Read Eddie Tay's Cha profile.
• Toh Hsien Min's poems were published in issue#5 of Cha.

CHA contributors in QLRS

Asian Cha contributors Arthur Leung, Cyril Wong and Lee Yew Leong each has poems published in the April 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Arthur's poems "Rumours" and "Mahjong Table Conversation", Cyril's "Landscape" and Yew Leong's "Stopped Car" in the new issue of QLRS.

The poetry editor of QLRS is Toh Hsien Min, also an Asian Cha contributor.

• Read Arthur Leung's Cha profile.
• Cyril Wong's poetry was published in issue#1 of Cha.
• Yew Leong Lee's short story "The Disappearance" was published in the February 2009 issue (issue#6) of Cha.
• Toh Hsien Min's poems were published in issue#5 of Cha.

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Reid Mitchell and Bob Bradshaw in QLRS

Reid Mitchell's poem "On Green Mango Street" and Bob Bradshaw's poem "Listening to Mother's Advice" are now both published in the January 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (Cheif editor: Toh Hsien Min).

• Read Reid Mitchell's Cha profile.
• Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.
• Toh Hsien Min's poems were published in issue#5 of Cha.