Phinder Dulai is a Surrey-based poet and writer whose work explores migration, memory, identity, and the cultural landscapes of the South Asian diaspora in Canada. He is the author of three poetry col...

Ricepaper Magazine invites submissions for Beyond the Hyphen, a special issue presented in collaboration with TAIWANfest Vancouver. This is a special collaborative literary project with TAIWANfest 202...

“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, ...

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...

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 delibera...

Miyoh was never very good with unanswered questions. She despised secrets, and agonized over minutiae she knew to be false. So when her English teacher, Mrs. Meyers, explained the concept of possessio...

my grandmother never swept the floors of our home at night striking my little hands if I picked up the broom she told me in Punjabi, Lakshmi is coming filling the air with her voice like ochre and cri...

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 ...

I All the landscapes I have ever seen condense into a single drop of ink, merging water and sky into one. Facing the sea and the slow ignition of sunrise, I make a vow: to inscribe all things between ...

We are now accepting submissions for our upcoming issue centred around the theme of superstitions. Whether you're superstitious or not, all cultures come with their own unique set of superstitions. Go...

1. The Estate The yard is vast, a park held in private hands. A tennis court, a pool, an outdoor bar breathing the expensive scent of sandalwood. She returns from a run, hauling a bloated body and hai...

Whenever she is unable to fall asleep She would snuggle herself In the heart of darkness, waiting For me to hold her tight From behind her back like light, but She forgets that she is already dead Her...

“1935-August… 1000 young cherry trees are donated to [the Parks] Board by Mr. and Mrs Uyeda. These are the first in the city and will be planted-out when more mature and funds available.” -R. Mike Ste...

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 o...

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...

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 b...

I do not mind ..my mother's hair as she prepares dinner and it ends up ...flossing ..teeth, yet short, practical ... with .enough responsibility ..to be genetic history, .....flitting, ..........caugh...

She is small and dark, a brown egg among a dozen white ones. At home she eats fried eggs with rice, while the white chicks eat theirs with toast and potatoes for breakfast. She eats rice day and night...

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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 b...

Ellen Chang-Richardson’s debut poetry collection, Blood Belies (Wolsak and Wynn), employs visual art and language to interrogate the nature of history and memory. Through negative space, concrete poet...

Teri Vlassopoulos’s highly-anticipated novel Living Expenses (Invisible Publishing, 2025) offers a timely tale of reproductive health in an age of both technological and geographical distance. In this...

Authors Rachel Phan (Restaurant Kid, a memoir) and Su Chang (The Immortal Woman, a novel) recently interviewed each other about their new releases. Rachel was three years old when her Chinese-Vietname...

DOXA 2025 PSFS x DOXA 2025 - The Cats of Gokogu Shrine​ Buy Tickets Now Powell Street Festival Society is proud to be a Community Partner of the upcoming DOXA Documentary Film Festival, happening May ...

They welcomed us, needed us, celebrated us, worked us to death. We pounded every spike, heaved every log, mined every stone, built them from ground up without complaint. When the last spike strikes ra...

white men in white stroll through the green and pay no heed to the japanese canadian boys peering through the gaps in the high wire fence clink the ball rolls to a stop a foot beyond .........the encl...