Vivian Jung, a trailblazing educator, was born in Merritt, BC, in 1924. Breaking barriers, she became the first Chinese-Canadian teacher hired by the Vancouver School Board. However, her journey was …
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.
Keiko Honda has worked in academia for over 10 years in the public health field in the US and internationally. She is now running her non-profit, Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society, …
Ujjal Dosanjh was born in a village of India’s rural Punjab in 1946, mere months before the midnight of India’s independence in 1947. Ujjal migrated to Britain in 1964 where …
Angie Wong is a second-generation Chinese person born in Canada. She is a scholar of the Humanities, teaching across the interdisciplinary fields of Settler Colonial, General, Social Justice, and Postcolonial Studies. Angie is …
Joy Kogawa is best known as the author of Obasan (1981), which is based on Joy and her family’s forced relocation from Vancouver during the Second World War when she was six years …
Lindsay Wong is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo, which was a finalist for Canada Reads 2019. She has written a YA novel entitled My Summer of Love …
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio is a Filipina-Canadian author, community worker, speaker, tour guide in Toronto’s Little Manila, and the founder of “Filipino Talks”– an initiative that builds bridges between Canadian educators …
We are excited to announce a special call for submissions centred around the theme of “Mother Love.” Motherhood is a universal experience that transcends cultural boundaries, and we invite writers …
Kigan-mon— a silent plea for harvest in Buddhist prayer beads your calloused fingers dig deep grooves into the rotting flesh of sugarcane— daughter of typhoons, you dipped your toes …
it only felt like yesterday when we were huddling under the citrus lights every shallow promise disappearing when the monsoon rain kissed our pale bodies you let me read …