Ricepaper

06/08/2025

Our new piece in Ricepaper is a creative non-fiction piece about the exploration of a relationship with language and the writer's father. “Ngo Ai Ni Baba” by Ma Wai-Yun, photography by Brian Nguyen https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/08/ngo-ai-ni-baba-by-ma-wai-yun/

The first words I ever spoke were in Toisan, Cantonese; Ge Ge. Brother. I was calling for my big brother Jin. Two years later, my baby sister was born. Mei Mei, we called her, little sister. We were born to an Irish Catholic mother and a Southern Chinese father. Mum and Baba. Two halves of

05/08/2025

Profile on Chinese-Canadian poet and writer Mormei Zanke by Rachel Lam Glassman https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/08/profile-on-chinese-canadian-poet-and-writer-mormei-zanke/

When her grandfather passed away, poet and essayist Mormei Zanke unconventionally honoured his memory – by writing about chop suey. This stir-fried meal of chopped vegetables and meat, all doused in a thick gravy, has largely faded from menus today, but the east-meets-west dish was wildly popular ...

30/07/2025

Ricepaper's call for submissions: this issue's theme is Yearning https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/07/17862/

We are now accepting submissions for our upcoming issue centred around the theme of yearning—that deep, aching pull toward something just out of reach. Whether it’s the quiet longing for a place you once called home, an unspoken desire, or the sharp hunger for change, we want work that aches, st...

04/07/2025

The ‘Ojochin’ is a rare type of cherry tree donated by the Japanese Government in 1925 for the Japanese Canadian War memorial in Stanley Park. "Gift" by Fiona Tinwei Lam https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/07/gift/

28/06/2025

Join us this weekend for LiterASIAN 2025: Origins!

The 2025 Literasian Festival arrives with the theme of “Origins,” an exploration of heritage and resilience that reflects two significant milestones: the 30th anniversary of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop (ACWW) and the recent centennial of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

This weekend’s lineup:

Saturday, June 28 2025
3.00pm – 4.30pm: The Paper Trail
Venue: Chinese Canadian Museum

Saturday, June 28 2025
6.00pm – 7.30pm: Ink and Identity: Narratives from the Chinese Diasporic Experience
Venue: Chinatown Storytelling Centre

Sunday, June 29 2025
1.00pm – 1.55pm: The Evolution of Bride of Gum San: How a Short Story Became a Novel
Venue: Centre A

Sunday, June 29 2025
2.00pm – 3.00pm: No Matter How Old I Get, I’ll Always Be a Restaurant Kid: The Evolution from Story to Memoir
Venue: Centre A

Sunday, June 29 2025
3.00pm – 3.55pm: Celebrating Thirty Years of Ricepaper Magazine: A New Infusion of Asian Canadian Narratives
Venue: Centre A

Tickets available on our website!

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28/06/2025

None of my are up early today so I went for Marulilu Cafe with -hee (영희) along with my Ricepaper DarkWinter Literary Magazine ! Squid Game

25/06/2025

Our latest series, "Writers on Writers" with Tracy Wai de Boer and Hollay Ghadery

https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/05/writersonwriters-tracy-wai-de-boer/

Iranian-Canadian multi-genre author Hollay Ghadery interviews award-winning writer Tracy Wai de Boer about her mesmerizing new poetry collection Nostos (Palimpsest Press, 2025). Taking its title from Ancient Greek, Tracy Wai de Boer’s Nostos is a hero’s journey rooted in the quest for selfhood f...

25/06/2025

A celebration of Ricepaper's emerging writers over the past two years. Celebrating 30th year of the magazine

Celebrating Thirty Years of Ricepaper Magazine: A New Infusion of Asian Canadian Narratives.

25/06/2025

"White Phosphorous" by Michael Chang. https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/05/white-phosphorous/

blue button-down soaked rubbing buddha’s belly truth in pieces brodsky recording a jingle merwin whistling for his life ‘i give u divorce on the thames’ get off ur miniature horse he farted in my presence poetry won’t change a thing we don’t discuss diaspora students focused on noodles the...

23/06/2025

Join FBCW host Rachel Dunstan Muller and panelists Allan Cho, Kyle Hawke, and Cadence Mandybura for a FREE webinar as we explore the process of working with a magazine editor. Where does an editor begin when reading the first draft of a contracted article? What does an ideal writer-editor relationship look like? How much back and forth can a writer expect before their article is ready for publication?

There will be much for our panel to discuss, but we will leave time for your questions as well.

25 Jun 2025
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (PDT)

More info and register here: https://bcwriters.ca/event-6233045

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20/06/2025

Celebrating 30 years of Ricepaper Magazine at . Editor-in-Chief 2003 Jessica Gin-Jade Chan & Editor-in-Chief 2025 Allan Cho https://ricepapermagazine.ca/magazine-2/8-4-fall-2003/

19/06/2025

“Numbers and their Pictures” by Maureen Tai

https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/06/numbers-and-their-pictures/

She wasn’t brought up on picture books the way her own children were. Even though illustrated storybooks existed back in the early 1970s - for example The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats had already been out for about a decade by then - these reading materials for infants and toddlers never reached t...