New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Nicolette Wong, Greg Santos, Berit Ellingsen and Sumana Roy

Nicolette Wong

Nicolette Wong‘s prose poem “Pastoral Hide & Seek” is now published in the sixth issue of YB Poetry (themed “Plants”). Nicolette’s piece opens with this evocative sentence: ‘Little bird, take me to the kimono girls.’ Read the whole poem here.

|| Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.

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Greg Santos

Greg Santos‘s new found poetry, which is derived from a simultaneously ‘funny’ and ‘condescending’ comment left by a spam bot, is now in Internet Poetry.

|| Greg Santos’s poem “Siem Reap, Cambodia” was published in issue #10 of Cha and discussed here.

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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen‘s mini-essay entitled “Short Stories are Like Gems”, is now up on the Atticus Review blog. The essay is written in celebration of National Short Story Month.

|| Read Berit Ellingsen’s Cha profile.

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Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy’s essay “We Are All Mamata Now”, which centres on Mamata Banerjee, Bengal and Bangla is now published in the June 2012 issue of Caravan. Read the full article here.

|| See Sumana Roy’s Cha profile.

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