As a Community Partner of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Ricepaper Magazine is proud to stand in conversation with a compelling slate of films. For over three decades, Ricepaper has …
Allan Cho
Allan Cho
Engaged in a number of initiatives in the local community, Allan serves on the board of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop and Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society. He has written for the Georgia Straight, Diverse Magazine, and Ricepaper. His fiction has appeared in anthologies, The Strangers and Eating Stories. He is one of the founders of LiterASIAN Writers Festival,the first Asian Canadian literary festival and is co-editor of the anthology, AlliterAsian: Celebrating Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine.
Exhale. erupt in a breath that is yours let chaos reign in a world that has always been silent about your pain. Be Too Much Too much body too …
We are now accepting submissions for our upcoming issue centred around the theme of superstitions. Whether you’re superstitious or not, all cultures come with their own unique set of superstitions. Got a …
1. The Estate The yard is vast, a park held in private hands. A tennis court, a pool, an outdoor bar breathing the expensive scent of sandalwood. She returns from …
Whenever she is unable to fall asleep She would snuggle herself In the heart of darkness, waiting For me to hold her tight From behind her back like light, but …
You ask me, while we stand in the rain (somehow, you managed to stay bone-dry), to tell you a story, any kind of story, but begin it with a day …
And you have no materiality. Yet you exist, somehow, as a shelf in the library, a gacha ball, or a cat in a box. A dictionary is filled with differences, …
Author of the new book The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street (published by Douglas & McIntyre), set to be released in March 2026, Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho writes with sustained attention …
In 1987, my parents bought a one bedroom apartment in Shekou. It was Chinese for snake tongue because there was a fork in the road that divided the village from …
We are now accepting submissions centred around the theme of impossibility. In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the Queen upbraids Alice for not practicing a belief in the impossible. …