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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!

Iron Dog Books
Plumleaf Press Books
Penguin Books Canada
DarkWinter Literary Magazine
Douglas & McIntyre

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...

17/06/2025

A new piece, "Here and Whole," by Kristine Sahagun

https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/06/her

I awaken to the sound of him in the den stubbing his toe on my piano, swearing. He can never sneak around while I sleep. I lie silent, listening to him move around the rooms. In the kitchen now and there’s that c***k of ice in a glass, splashes of liquid, a pause before he

15/06/2025

A new short story, "Sarge" by Garry Engkent https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/06/sarge/

I knew him only as “Sarge.” He answered to that moniker because he was a sergeant in the Thibeault Falls police force, and, I learned much later, a sergeant in the Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War. Like other cops, he’d come to the Panama Café for coffee breaks and often the ...

19/05/2025

Submissions for "Echoes of Exclusion" Poetry Contest 2024 came from poets across Canada for the Chinese Canadian Museum’s inaugural poetry contest on the Chinese Exclusion Act. Of the thirty-seven entries received, written in English and Chinese, eleven were selected by the judging committee (Fiona Tinwei Lam, Yao Sweden Xiao, and Catherine Clement) to be on the shortlist.

“míng” by Gillian Sze 施吉蓮 is one of the runner-up poems in the contest.

https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/05/ming/

míng are young tea leaves softened in the pacific is the ocean engraved on worn bodies of migrants even the birds and the insects of a new place míng, but here their cries are clouded so they míng..... with grief míng is the sweeping sea..... the sea is also ellipses of rain, evenly spaced out