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The September 2012 issue of Cha is here. We want to thank guest editors Ivy Alvarez (poetry) and Berit Ellingsen (prose) for reading the submissions with us. We would also like to thank Eddie Tay for another fine selection of book reviews and Marc Vincenz for reading the contest poems. The issue includes an editorial by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming titled "In My Piecemeal Fashion".

The following writers/artists have generously allowed us to showcase their work:

Poetry: Richard K. Kent, Koon Woon, Joshua Burns, Ricky Garni, Jeanne Morel, Reid Mitchell, May Dy, David Raphael Israel, Isabel Yap, Evelyn A. So, Michelle Esquivias, Ashley Dean, Eleanor Goodman, Matthew A. Hamilton, Joanne Lee, James Valvis, Dorothy Chan 
"The Past" poetry contest winners: Joshua Burns, Michael Gray, Andrew Barker, Reid Mitchell, Ken Turner, Adam Radford 
Fiction: Rosebud Ben-Oni, Philip John, Murli Melwani 

Creative non-fiction: Sarah Coomber, Angela Tung 

Lost teas: Violet Kieu

Photography & art: Birgit Linder, Lucy Schappy (cover artist), Victoria Law 

Book reviews: Alice Tsay, Sam Byfield, Sucharita Dutta-Asane, William Whitaker, Brian Yang, Samuel Tsang, Kate Rogers, Kate Rogers, Michael Tsang, Shaily Sahay

Our Fifth Anniversary Issue will appear in December 2012. We are now accepting submissions for Issue # 20, due out in March 2013. If you are interested in having your work considered, please read our submission guidelines.