張 = Chuong/ to open up 媽媽 = Mother 爸爸 = Father 哥哥= Brother 清明 = Qingming Festival 金紙 = Joss Paper 拜神 = Pray 花桥 = Flower Bridge An …
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.
Because she feared starving so much, my mother shopped three days a week at Costco, which meant that we hoarded food, and that eating was almost as essential as money. …
RP: You graduated in the MFA Creative Writing program at the Columbia University. What was that like? How did you decide that you wanted to enter the program and become …
Chinatown Ghosts: The Poems and Photographs of Jim Wong-Chu Paperback: 9781551527482, 128 pages, 2018 | Arsenal Pulp Press | I remember the long drives home after our meetings. Jim liked choreographing the …
The Burnaby Art Gallery’s exhibition of Anna Wong: A Traveller on Two Roads is a refreshing approach to the Asian Canadian narrative. As the first major retrospective of Canadian artist …
Remember the “Comfort Women” I was 15 and living in Vancouver when I first learned about the ‘comfort women’, a terrible euphemism for tens of thousands of young women sexually …
Ricepaper is eager to support this new talent, as it does with Asian Canadians in all fields, and especially the arts—a discipline which traditionally has been one of the hardest for …
This year’s theme is Journey to the West: Writing Across the Pacific. We have an incredible line up of authors with a full schedule of events, workshops, and panels happening all …
I picture Jen Lam living a dual existence. By day she’s trapped in a cluttered office cubicle or a windowless law library perusing some obscure statute as a researcher for …
Dimpled folds of fat flow out from the blue jacket, surging over the armrest, edging closer as she watches in horror. Her seatbelt tightens and coils its way up her …