LiterASIAN Festival: Celebrating Asian Canadian Writing

LiterASIAN Festival: Celebrating Asian Canadian Writing (Supplied photo)

Vancouver, BC – As part of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW) and Ricepaper Magazine, LiterASIAN: A Festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian Writing will take place from August 15, 2020 to August 30, 2020. LiterASIAN is a spotlight on Asian Canadian literature, history, and culture. The theme of this year’s festival reflects the need to be -­‐ Quiet No More -­‐ at a time when the easiest thing to do would be to remain silent as a bystander.

“ACWW has helped writers get published, and this festival is a stage for both established and new literary voices to highlight the hybridity of Canadian literary culture,” says Allan Cho, festival director.  “This is not just a literary event, but a

celebration that brings together writers from a range of genres to share their ideas

and stories that challenge our perception and realities of writing and publishing.”

LiterASIAN: A Festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian Writing will take place virtually. The festival will feature six different events, including panels, workshops, book talks, and a musical performance.

Featured authors at the festival will be award-‐winning Anosh Irani, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Kawika Guillermo, Carlo Javier, Kevin Kapenda, Rachel D’Sa, and Nathalie De Los Santos.  Workshops, book club discussions, panels, and musical performances feature Shon Wong, Winnie Cheung, David Wong, Marlene Enns, JF Garrard, Dr. Danielle Wong, and the Literary Circle of Asian Books.

LiterASIAN’s opening event will also announce the details of this year’s Jim Wong-‐Chu Emerging Writers Award.  The Award originated in 1999 to help authors of Pacific Rim Asian heritage be published with an established publishing house.

This year’s tickets to LiterASIAN are free of charge.  Attendees can claim a ticket to the six virtual events on our website.

Program schedule and tickets are available online at http://literasian.com

For interviews and photos, please contact info@literasian.com

With much gratitude, we acknowledge that our festival will take place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-­‐Waututh peoples