I’m jealous of the students at Seoul International and how they practice second languages, the way they write and unwrite poems in English to learn how they fit inside the …
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.
When I die at another antlike moment like this No human crowds would gather to mourn my loss Nor would anybody really notice my departure Much less shed tears, even …
This road to justice in our world is, indeed, a long one. But it is not a road void of hope. In her new book, A Long Road to Justice: …
It was forty-nine days after her mother had passed when the twelve-year-old girl noticed a heat from her chest, to her stomach, her head, fluttering, rushing, propelling her legs to …
In nursing school we learn the anatomy of the human body; memorizing all the bones and muscles that work in tandem to move us through life. Among these books …
An Interview with Sylvia Yu Friedman, author of “A Long Road to Justice: Stories From the Frontlines in Asia”
After ten years of intensive research and interviewing elderly survivors, academics, lawyers, and activists in different nations, Sylvia Yu Friedman is a global expert on “comfort women” military sex slavery. …
It is human nature to keep on hoping against all odds. It was 1732, and Alexander Pope’s particular expression was coined and over time, it’s become a proverbial phrase unto …
Today I saw a bird It was a tiny bird Alone Flying just high enough that I took notice While all the other birds flew one way You flew the …
Postscripts from a City Burning By Sam Cheuk Palimpsest Press, Windsor, Ontario ISBN 978-1-989287-81-1 Reviewed by Kate Rogers As authoritarianism spreads with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine it would be too …
New Penguin Random House Memoir – excerpt from A LONG ROAD TO JUSTICE: STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINES IN ASIA by Sylvia Yu Friedman
A constant stream of impoverished women and girls have been, and are being, enslaved and abused in the Asia Pacific region. Slavery is not a historical issue – it’s happening …