1942 draws to a close with the Watada family still interned in the abandoned town of Minto, BC, during the beginning of the Japanese Canadian ‘evacuation’. Terry Watada reimagines his …
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My father was a handsome, rugged man; tough, fairly tall (five–foot-ten in his youth) and quiet. He was a lumberjack before WWII. In 1920, he was abandoned in Vancouver at …
On October 17, 2017, a very special event took place in Toronto – A Celebration of Life event was held for Jim Wong-Chu, the founder of the Asian Canadian Writers’ …
LiterASIAN 2017 is just around the corner, and it brings a group of established and upcoming Asian Canadian writers together in Vancouver for four days of literary events. In addition …
In anticipation of LiterASIAN 2017, we are pleased to showcase interviews with our featured authors. Leslie Shimotakahara and Terry Watada discuss being simultaneously Japanese and North American, alongside their thoughts …
A Conversation on Asian Canadian Studies with Terry Watada, Jim Wong-Chu and Glenn Deer
by Patricia Lim
On November 27, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre hosted a three-way discussion between writer and poet, Terry Watada; Ricepaper Magazine and ACWW co-founder, Jim Wong-Chu; and professor at UBC, Dr. Glenn …