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The Seventh Anniversary Issue of Cha is here. We would like to thank guest editors Arthur Leung (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together the new edition. We would also like to thank Eddie Tay for another fine selection of book reviews and Jason Hun Eng Lee for reading the contest poems and writing a commentary on the poems. The issue includes an editorial titled "The Last Book" by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming.

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

Poetry: Ravi Shankar, Joseph Stanton, Chen Chen, Rajiv Mohabir, Varsha Saraiya-Shah, Zhang Jieqiang, Amalia B. Bueno, Angela Gabrielle Fabunan, Jess C Scott, Joshua Burns, Chip Dameron, Camille Rivera, Bob Bradshaw 
"Reconciliation" poetry contest winners: Jeffrey Javier, Manjiri Indurkar, Naveed Alam, Robert Perchan, Jyotsna Jha, Meg Eden Kuyatt, L.S. Bassen
Umbrella Movement: Lo Mei Wa, Manson Wong, David William Hill
Fiction: Thaddeus Rutkowski, Gabriel Jensen Bloch, Erica Plouffe Lazure, Clara Chow 
Creative non-fiction: Nurulhuda Arslan
Photography & art: Chris Leung (cover artist), Bob Percival, Kathlene Postma, Ivy Poon, Amy Lewis 
Reviews: Glen Hamilton, Henry W. Leung, Michael Tsang, Karen Ma, Emily Chow, Carolyn Lau, Lu Jin, Elen Turner, William Noseworthy  

Our delayed Issue 27 will be ready in mid-April, followed by Issue 28, due out in June. We are currently accepting submissions for Issue 29, scheduled for September 2015. If you are interested in having your work considered for inclusion in Cha, please read our submission guidelines carefully.