• Named Best New Online Magazine of 2008 by storySouth's Million Writers Award
• 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 selected for inclusion in Best of the Web and Best of the Net anthologies (2009) and named storySouth's Million Writers Award Notable Stories (2008, 2009, 2010)
• Several pieces published in the journal were noticed by other editors and translated into languages such as 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• After reading an unpublished book chapter here, a publisher asked the author for the manuscript and eventually decided to publish the book (2010)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) and The China Daily (November 2010) have run feature articles on Cha; the journal is mentioned in the CNN article "The Evolution of English Literature in Hong Kong", the Hindu article "Virtual Bookshelf" and King's College London's In Touch (April 2011)

We regularly 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).

In the future, Cha will be developed into both an online journal and a print anthology. Some of the past issues of the journal can be viewed via Eyeboox. 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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Founding Co-Editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a proud native of Hong Kong, China. She edited Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology (2006) and co-edited Love & Lust (2008). She also edits Fleeting Magazine and Victorian Network, among other things. Contact:  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   [profile | website]

Founding Co-Editor Originally from Canada, Jeff Zroback is an editor by trade and has previously worked in Korea and Hong Kong. He is also a co-editor of the short fiction collection Love & Lust and has published fiction and poetry. He writes many of the Cha editorials. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it [profile]

Reviews Editor Eddie Tay is author of three collections of poetry, Remnants, A Lover's Soliloquy and The Mental Life of Cities, and has been invited to various international festivals. He is from Singapore and is currently teaching poetry and children's literature at the Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it [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]

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]

Alice Tsay is currently studying English literature at Oxford University. A native of California, she has taught English in Hong Kong and Taiwan and holds a degree in Music and English from Amherst College. [profile]

Guest editors read the submissions with Tammy Ho and Jeff Zroback; they are carefully selected from our past contributors.