Myths, Legends, and the Supernatural What does your palm say about you? How has life been for you during Kali Yuga? Have you ever seen Chang’e up on the moon? …
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.
I don’t remember where the mosque was in relation to our building when I was growing up, but I remember that it was close enough that you could hear the …
He’s alone, His breathing barely rises and falls In a rhythm inharmonious with the rain That pounds on him like a hardening heart. There’s a dizzying array of the finest …
Dear Canadian Media Industry, This year 2021 has been a watershed year for global racism against Asians and the lack of representation of Asians in Hollywood… and Canada. Recently widely …
Shzzzzs, our little secret: Many nights I slept with you on the Kowloon floor. Then why would I be bothered by you underneath the sinks and cracks of my Regent …
Kendra Ellis is a Korean adoptee and transplant from Seattle with a background in the disparate fields of comparative literature and computer science. When not buried nose-first in a text, …
Silvia Leung has written and edited a wide spectrum of pieces in the non-profit, private, and public sectors, from academic to creative, business to multimedia, technical to policy writing. Ricepaper …
Buried deep in the Downtown Eastside, past Main and East Hastings where someone is trying to offload valium, past Powell where low income housing and treatment centres make up most …
Communities are essential in the act of hope-making, extending life and goodness farther than any one individual could give on their own. Communities can also work to derail, deconstruct, and …
“From Toronto to Vancouver: Artistic Self-Documentation serves to continually shed hope on Asian-Canadian Stories during Pandemic”
The Quarantine Qapsule (QQ) is a digital archive of the Asian Canadian experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Created in Nightingale Nguyen’s bedroom in Toronto, ON, she wanted to create counter-narratives …