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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, founded in 2007, a decade after the handover, is the first Hong Kong-based international English-language free-access online literary journal; it is dedicated to publishing quality poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews and photography & art. Cha has a strong focus on Asian-themed creative work and work done by Asian writers/artists. It publishes established and emerging writers/artists from around the world. The journal had a launch in Beijing on 31 August 2009 by Royston Tester. The March 2013 issue was launched on 7 March by guest editors Kaitlin Solimine (prose) and Marc Vincenz (poetry). The event was co-hosted by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. In 2017, to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the journal, we launched the Cha Reading Series and the Cha Writing Workshop Series. Cha is catalogued in the libraries of the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Baptist University, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Harvard University, Stanford University, McGill University, Imperial College London, Trinity College Dublin, among many others. It is also promoted on EBSCOhost. The rightsholders of Cha grant Hong Kong Baptist University Library non-exclusive right to archive and distribute content from the journal on its Institutional Repository, a non-commercial platform maintained by BePress. More about Cha: Selected as The Gatekeeper's Site of the Week (Wednesday 1 July 2009), on Meet at the Gate, the website of Scottish publisher Canongate Works published in Cha have been included in Best of the Web (2009), selected as a winner and finalists of Best of the Net (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016), selected as a winner and a semifinalist of The Best Small Fictions (2018) and named storySouth's Million Writers Award Notable Stories (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) Several pieces published in the journal were noticed by other editors and translated into languages such as Chinese, Japanese, French and Swedish A poem, first featured here, went on to win the International Grand Prix for Poetry (2009) After reading an unpublished book chapter here, a publisher asked the author for the manuscript and eventually decided to publish the book (2010) Time Out Hong Kong (October 2009), South China Morning Post (April 2010), The China Daily (November 2010) and India's Sunday Guardian (February 2013) have run feature articles on Cha; the journal is mentioned in the CNN article "The Evolution of English Literature in Hong Kong" (2010), the Hindu article "Virtual Bookshelf" (2010), the journal The Year's Work in English Studies (2010), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2010), King's College London's In Touch (2011), Hong Kong's City Magazine (2014), Los Angeles Review of Books (2016), and most recently, Ming Pao (2017), Apple Daily (2017), and Philippines Graphic (2018), among other places
Every now and then, we comment on published pieces in the critique column, A Cup of Fine Tea: 'If something is good enough to be published in Cha, then it is good enough to receive critical attention' (qtd. from an interview here). We have also run the following contests (and you can find our special features here): In the future, Cha will be developed into both an online journal and a print anthology. The eighth issue of Cha can be downloaded as a PDF here and the poetry in the thireteenth issue is available in a booklet. Cha is also a drink popular throughout Asia and beyond.
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General contact:
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 Founding Co-Editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a proud native of Hong Kong. She is an editor of Berfrois and the academic journal Hong Kong Studies. An Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist University, she sometimes writes poetry & fiction. Her first poetry collection is Hula Hooping. In 2016, she was awarded the Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Contact:
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 Founding Co-Editor Originally from Canada, Jeff Zroback has an MA in History. He is an editor by trade and has previously worked in Canada, Korea, Hong Kong and the UK. He was the co-editor of the short fiction collection Love & Lust (with Tammy Ho Lai-Ming) and has published fiction and poetry. He writes many of the Cha editorials. Contact:
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[ profile]  Reviews Editor Eddie Tay wrote four poetry collections, Remnants, A Lover's Soliloquy, The Mental Life of Cities (winner of the 2012 Singapore Literature Prize) and Dreaming Cities. He has been invited to various international literary festivals. Originally from Singapore, he is an Associate Professor of literature at the Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Contact:
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 Reid Mitchell, a New Orleanian, is teaching at Tsinghua Daxue. He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College and is completing a post-MFA poetry course through City University of Hong Kong. He has published a number of literary dialogues with Tammy Ho and his novel A Man Under Authority was published by Turtle Point Press. He is currently writing a memoir of teaching in China. [ profile] |
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 Arthur Leung holds an MFA in creative writing (with distinction) from the University of Hong Kong and is on the international editorial board of Yuan Yang. He was a winner of the 2008 Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition. In 2009, Leung was commended by the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR government for his outstanding artistic accomplishments. [profile]
Royston Tester has been jury member for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize and first reader for the Writers' Union of Canada's Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers. He is a professor of creative writing at Mohawk College and is a regular writer-in-residence with Beijing's Red Gate Gallery. His second collection of stories, Fatty Goes To China (Tightrope Books) will be published in 2012. [profile] |
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M ichael Tsang received his BA and MPhil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is now reading for a PhD degree at the University of Warwick, specializing in postcolonial English literature in Hong Kong. [ profile]
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 Janet Lau is a native Hong Konger. She received her BA and BED from Hong Kong Baptist University. |
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Guest Editors and Contest Judges |
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Tea Tasters comment on works published in Cha on A Cup of Fine Tea; they are: Tammy Ho, Jeff Zroback, Jarno Jakonen [ profile], Bob Bradshaw [ profile] and some guests. |
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-This website is designed, illustrated and managed by Tammy Ho and Jarno Jakonen. |
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