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Writers on Writers

1 month ago | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho

3 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 from elemental beginnings to an unknowable end.
Writers on Writers

1 month ago | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho

9 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 interview, award-winning Iranian-Canadian author Hollay Ghadery interviews Teri about representing the biracial experience in her novel, writing about motherhood, and where this fascinating story started.
Call for Submissions: Orientation

2 months ago | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho

3 What does it mean to orient yourself — in a place, in a moment, in your body, or about others? To be oriented can mean finding direction, discovering purpose, or simply standing still and locating yourself in an unfamiliar world. It can be the beginning of a journey, the act of looking around, or a lifelong practice of re-alignment.
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Feb 19, 2025 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho

2 Sugar ants from sunset bring bad luck reflected in aged mirrors; troubles echoed in hoarse bellsinside whitewashed temple domes; debts that inhabit the marrow of history; hunger that live insideguts like feral dogs howling forever. Sugar ants from sunup bode better: for repayment of debts; from down south they bring gold,silver; from up north they bring winds that drive the river down to the milk of estuaries. That’swhat they say. What do I know?
Don’t Leave Us Here

Jan 5, 2025 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho

4 As living parents, more time is all we want, while in death, time is all we have. We spoke to Cynthia a week before the accident took us. She called us on a lunch break and explained her dream job was not working out. “I like who I work with and enjoy the work itself. I’m just tired of feeling I’m doing this alone.”Our poor, sweet Cynthia. We worried about her Westend apartment, which was too small, and her work, which demanded too much. We always told her she could come home.
Meryenda | Ricepaper Magazine

Jan 4, 2025 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho

2 1. (n.) the ancestral home you’ve never seen beforeIn the public square, there is a stage lined with Christmas lights. Tinny music blasts from a loudspeaker, and Tito Benny tells us there are fireworks planned for this evening. I ask what the fireworks are for. Christmas is still a week and a half away. “‘Still’?” He laughs. “No. Only.”He parks the van in front of a closed iron gate across the street from the public square and honks four times.
A Requiem for Ada Con

Dec 2, 2024 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho

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Cross Sea: Waves of Coloniality Crashing on All Sides

Nov 17, 2024 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho |Sebastian De Line

1 It is difficult to articulate a response to the irreparability of redress when the Canadian government’s attempt toat repair lands with insincerity or irreverence. I remember growing up, my mother and her siblings would occasionally talk about their grandfather being a “coolie” who paid the Head Tax, working on the Canadian Pacific Railway. How remarkable a feat it was that my great-grandfather didn’t die as many railway workers did – one for every mile of track laid, it is said.
Celebrating the Life and Times of Roy Miki

Oct 13, 2024 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho

3 Ricepaper Magazine mourns the loss of Roy Miki, whose passing marks the end of an era in Canadian literature and social justice. As a poet, scholar, and lifelong activist, Roy’s contributions to the cultural and political landscape of Canada were as deep and resonant as his written words. His work not only chronicled the struggles of Japanese Canadians but also fought for their recognition and dignity.
Ricepaper Call for Submissions — “Organization” | Ricepaper Magazine

Oct 9, 2024 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Allan Cho

3 We are pleased to announce the theme for our upcoming issue: Organization. In an increasingly complex world, the way we structure our lives, thoughts, and societies is more important than ever. From the systems we create to make sense of chaos, to the structures that break down, we want to explore what it means to organize, be organized, and live within (or resist) organized structures. We invite writers, poets, essayists, and artists to interpret this theme broadly and creatively.