Cherita is the Malay word for story or tale. A cherita consists of a single stanza of a one-line verse, followed by a two-line verse, and then finishing with a three-line verse. It can be written solo or with up to three partners. For our print version, each selected poem is published one to a page to allow the author’s words to breath, and is also allocated a blank page before the following poem appears. This blank page, apart from the one to a page format, allows a reader to pause, and for the words to echo in the after silence.

Founded by Ai Li in 1997 in memory of her grandparents who were raconteurs extraordinaire. 

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