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Ricepaper Magazine is a Canadian publication based in Vancouver that has been celebrating Asian Canadian literature, culture, and art since 1994. As a literary magazine, we feature fresh poetry, fiction, plays, graphic novels, translations, and a wide variety of creative writing from across Canada. In addition to literature, we serve as an arts magazine that offers reviews of books, theater, and films, as well as showcasing original artwork and photography. At our core, we focus on people. The creativity emerging from Asian Canadian artists and writers is both rich and expanding. Ricepaper highlights profiles and interviews with both established and emerging talents from this vibrant community. We also welcome contributions from Asian writers globally, recognizing that stories from beyond our borders can resonate just as powerfully as those within Canada’s diverse landscape.

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Writers on Writers

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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.
Detective Chinatown 1900 (唐探1900) review

Mar 5, 2025 | ricepapermagazine.ca | JF Garrard

22 Note – some minor spoilers!Detective Chinatown 1900 (唐探1900) is a movie within the Detective Chinatown movie franchise, and despite jokes on Reddit about having to watch 1899 movies before this one, Detective Chinatown 1900 is the fourth movie in the series. Each movie has two recurring detective characters played by the young actor Liu Haoran and the older actor Wang Baoqiang.
A Love Letter From Kenong

Mar 4, 2025 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Phoebe Lee

3 The tears hadn’t yet dried, but you had turned up at my front gate with a box of tissues, two sleeping bags, and a digital map to get us out of Kuala Lumpur. We escaped the city in your beat-up Proton Saga with the wind-down windows from the eighties and the broken cassette player. I always thought you were a bit of a retro misfit, an old soul amid the polished sheen of 2020. I don’t know if you ever noticed, but I always tried to avoid riding with you when we were out with friends.
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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?
Comeback | Ricepaper Magazine

Jan 11, 2025 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Joshua Woo

4 Andrew and I agreed to meet at the GS25 near arrivals. He smiled when he saw me and asked if I needed help wheeling my single piece of luggage: a Rimowa carry-on. I helped him feel helpful, and he said something about catching the express train. We walked through the airport with our hands not quite touching, navigating the maze of marble flooring and forensic, morgue-like underpasses that never connected, eventually finding the station.
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.
To Make a Painting

Dec 2, 2024 | ricepapermagazine.ca | Sneha Madhavan-Reese

1 The artist reads a book. The book provides an idea. The idea, entrapment, leadsto a framework, a frameworkof thinking. Are we trappedin our own bodies, whichwe are one with but also not. Our bodies house usbut do we desire toescape our own bodies. The artist builds a house. The house is made of cardboard. The house is too small forthe artist, but the artist movesinto the house. For severalhours, the artist is trapped. After several hours, the artistbreaks free. The artist filmsthe breaking.