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07/08/2026

The Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (ACWW) warmly welcomes Tāriq Malik as President.

A Vancouver-based writer, poet, and visual artist, Tāriq has spent more than four decades creating powerful work across poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and photography. Born in the Pakistani Punjab, he has a remarkable life journey that spans war, migration, and years in Kuwait before making Canada his home. These experiences have shaped a distinctive literary voice that explores migration, memory, belonging, history, and identity with compassion and originality.

Tāriq is the author of the acclaimed short story collection Rainsongs of Kotli, the novel Chanting Denied Shores, and the poetry collections Exit Wounds and the award-winning Blood of Stone. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Puritan, Write Magazine, and The Aleph Review. In 2023, he served as Writer-in-Residence at the historic Joy Kogawa House, continuing his longstanding commitment to literary community and mentorship.

07/08/2026

We're looking forward to the Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival 2026! Happy 20th Anniversary! https://twff.ca

04/08/2026

03/08/2026

Eddie Lo is a 26-year-old writer originally from Taiwan and currently based in Toronto. "A Little Island" is his first short fiction. https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2026/08/a-little-island/

“I want to be an architect after I graduate." That’s what Ruo remembered saying before the beatings came. His father was furious. “Have the Japanese bastards gotten into your head!” The next morning, his father took him on a six-hour trek to the port of Kīrun. They walked from the city all ...

21/07/2026

Ricepaper Magazine invites submissions for "Beyond the Hyphen," a special issue presented in collaboration with TAIWANfest Vancouver. This is a special collaborative literary project that explores migration, language, cultural memory, identity, and belonging across Taiwanese Canadian and broader Taiwanese diasporic communities.

This collaboration seeks not only to showcase established literary voices but also to actively cultivate the next generation of Taiwanese Canadian writers by creating a welcoming entry point into literary publishing. Beyond the Hyphen encourages emerging writers — particularly those who have never previously published in English-language literary spaces — to share their stories.

We are seeking:
-Fiction
-Poetry
-Creative nonfiction
-Essays

Deadline for submissions is October 31, 2026. The special guest editors for this special issue are becky tu and Iris Chen.

https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2026/07/beyondthehyphen/

21/07/2026

Read the latest short fiction by Randal Chin, "Peter Pang and the Pineapple Prophecy," about superstitions and magical pineapples https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2026/07/peter-pang-and-the-pineapple-prophecy/

Peter Pang has an unfortunate name, but Mr. and Mrs. Pang really thought Peter was a good name for their son. His name, though, was not really one of the bigger problems in his life. Neither is what I’m about to tell you. That is — that Peter was never allowed to eat fresh pineapple.

10/07/2026

Changming Yuan's newest poem, "Ever Since Retirement" in Ricepaper
https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2026/07/ever-since-retirement-2/

My life has thinned out like a sheet of moist rice paper. A single drop of ink bleeds into an ever-expanding patch of night sky, while my remaining days shrink into the empty white space— the deliberate blank of a lost Chinese painting. Yuan Changming grew up in an isolated village, started to lea...

06/07/2026

Former Editor-in-Chief of Ricepaper Magazine at LiterASIAN Festival, remembering Jim Wong-Chu

03/07/2026

A series of beautiful new poems of “Impossibility” by
by David Anson Lee, illustration by Arty Guava https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2026/06/poems-of-impossibility/

Custody First, misplace a word. Not the important ones. Something small: the name of a vegetable, a season, the bird that nested outside your grandmother's window. Let convenience perform its careful theft. Soon you will dream in one language and grieve in another. At family dinners you become an ar...

13/04/2026

Ricepaper Magazine is proud to be a community partner of this year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Check out the slate of amazing films this year https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2026/04/ricepaper-magazine-x-doxa-documentary-film-festival-community-partner-feature/

As a Community Partner of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Ricepaper Magazine is proud to stand in conversation with a compelling slate of films. For over three decades, Ricepaper has supported the work of Asian Canadian and diasporic voices. As part of this year's festival, Ricepaper highlights....