Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW)
- Join us at LunarFest 2026 Live Readings at Oceanworks on Granville Island! asiancanadianwriters.ca/2026/02/2026... #asiancanadian
- Indigenous and racialized artists and cultural workers who work in every artistic discipline – whether the literary, media, performing, or visual arts – can become members of CultureBrew.Art (CBA) culturebrew.art/artist-membe...
- Connecting Artists with Engagers & Employers on CultureBrew.Art featuring a Canada-wide searchable database of Indigenous and racialized literary, media, performing, and visual arts professionals www.asiancanadianwriters.ca/2026/01/conn... #asiancanadian #bipoc
- A very touching piece on ACWW's Eric Li & his mother, May Tsoi. “In Chinese culture, there’s an expectation to care for your parents at home and some people will think you’re a bad child if you don’t... I knew I had to do things differently.” alzheimer.ca/bc/en/whats-... #asiancanadian
- Words on Rice: The ACWW Open Mic Series returns! Our next hour-long open mic will happen on January 17, 2026, 12.00pm PST / 3.00pm EST docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #asiancanadian
- Thank you to the University of Toronto Libraries @uoftlibraries.bsky.social & June Chow for digitizing "Inalienable Rice," a landmark publication in Asian Canadian literature, now available open access archive.org/details/cca_... #asiancanadian #diversityLit
- Celebrating half a century of nurturing Asian Canadian talent, ACWW's Effie Pow and Sean Gunn talk about the history of the organization on the Artsy Raven Podcast with Ricepaper editor JF Garrard open.spotify.com/episode/2vjR... #asiancanadian #diversityLIT
- Creators Harvest: 2025 Holiday Art Auction & Market ‘Tis the season! Centre A would like to invite you and your loved ones to our 2025 Holiday Art Auction & Market, Creators Harvest. Opening Night: November 29, 5–8 PM centrea.org/current-prog... #asiancanadian #art
- Vancouver’s “hat lady” will be commemorated in a new exhibition at a Chinatown art gallery. Madame Maverick: Celebrating the bold spirit and community legacy of Faye Leung will be at Canton-sardine (071-268 Keefer Street) from November 15 to December 27. pancouver.ca/madame-maver... #asiancanadian
- Hosted by the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), Words on Rice: Open Mic is a welcoming space for anyone who identifies as Asian Canadian or mixed-race Asian Canadian to share their writing on Dec 20th asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/11/word... #asiancanadian #diversityLIT
- So proud of Eddy Boudel Tan and Souvankham Thammavongsa, two of the nicest, most talented authors in the Canadian lit scene today. Congrats to you both, you're wonderful role models. Good luck! cbc.ca/books/watch-... #asiancanadian #diversityLIT #gillerprize
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- Farewell, Floata. So many wonderful memories. Thank you to Brian, Andre, Manny, and the many others who braved through the pandemic and served many in the community. You deserve our accolades. One last hurrah for you! globalnews.ca/news/1150096... #asiancanadian
- ACWW enjoys an evening with former Ricepaper's Yiming Ma, author of "These Memories Do Not Belong to Us," who's in town for the Vancouver Writers Festival. Always a great time to have storytelling over food! yiming-ma.com #asiancanadian
- LiterASIAN Writers Festival in Ottawa, featuring Wayne Ng, Jinwoo Park, Rachel Phan, and Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, was a complete blast! Thank you to everyone who joined us at Perfect Books! literasian.com/literasian-o... #asiancanadian #literasian #ottawa
- Superb panel featuring Eddy Boudel Tan (Tiger and the Cosmonaut), Jinwoo Park (Jim Wong Chu Emerging Writers Award winner of Oxford Soju Club), Grace Kwan (Sacred Heart Motel) & Todd Wong explored stories of identity, resilience & belonging wordvancouver.ca/room-c440/st... #asiancanadian
- The @acww October newsletter is out! Read more about exciting community events and news here: mailchi.mp/asiancanadia.... #asiancanadian
- A wonderful book launch of “Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong” by Larry Grant and Scott Steedman, brought to you by Chinatown Wonde and ACWW youtu.be/5NFFLmm9-Us?... #asiancanadian #Indigenous #chinatownYVR
- Musqueam elder Larry Grant finds belonging in new memoir, Reconciling ubyssey.ca/culture/musq... #asiancanadian #indigenous
- It was lovely to spend an afternoon with author Jinwoo Park. Thank you for joining us for your Vancouver tour of your debut novel, Oxford Soju Club! Best of luck for the rest of the book tour in September, Jinwoo!! www.jinwoo-park.com/events #asiancanadian #JimWongChuEmergingWriterAward
- Featuring acclaimed authors Eddy Boudel Tan (Tiger and the Cosmonaut), Jinwoo Park (Jim Wong Chu Emerging Writers Award winner for Oxford Soju Club), and Grace Kwan (The Sacred Heart Motel), this panel explores stories of identity, resilience, and belonging.
- The ACWW and Chinatown Wonders hosted the launch of "Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong" by Larry Grant, Musqueam Elder, and Scott Steedman. Thank you to all those who joined us for this important event! ecwpress.com/products/rec... #asiancanadian #chinatownYVR
- Congratulations to ACWW board of director and writer, Tāriq Malik, whose poetry book "Blood of Stone" just won the Book Awards for BC Authors Contest Award 2025 for poetry caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Bloo... #asiancanadian #poetry
- P.P. Wong Book Launch "Slice the Water" at Upstart & Crow on September 18, 2025 asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/08/pp-w... #asiancanadian
- Join us on Sept 20th at Word Vancouver Festival, featuring an ACWW-sponsored panel of authors asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/08/word... #asiancanadian
- Recap of LiterASIAN Festival 2025 – An Eventful Celebration of Asian Canadian Writers and Community Builders via the Gung Haggis Fat Choy site gunghaggis.com/2025/07/14/7... #asiancanadian #gunghaggisfatchoy
- We invite you to join us for the highly anticipated book launch of Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong. This gathering will feature a conversation between Larry Grant sʔəyəɬəq 洪禮興 and writer Scott Steedman. asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/08/book... #asiancanadian
- Presentation of the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award to Samantha Jade MacPherson. Congratulations to all the applicants who submitted to this contest, many of whom will go on to be published with their outstanding manuscripts asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/06/anno... #asiancanadian
- The next Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award deadline is September 30, 2026. asiancanadianwriters.ca/p/emerging-w... #asiancanadian #JWCEmergingWritersAward
- LiterASIAN Festival is coming to Ottawa! Featuring authors Jinwoo Park, Rachel Phan, Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, and Wayne Ng. See you on September 15th @ Perfect Books asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/07/lite... #asiancanadian
- "Ink and Identity: Narratives from the Chinese Diasporic Experience" at the Chinatown Storytelling Centre featured writers Rachel Phan, JF Garrard, and Eddy Boudel Tan literasian.com/ink-and-iden... #asiancanadian #literasian
- LiterASIAN festival’s Allan Cho, Jeannie Fong, & Phoebe Ann Lee share a moment at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library. The festival celebrated the 13th annual festival and the 30th anniversary of ACWW. Up next is Vancouver’s in June! literasian.com/tickets/ #literasian2025
- Thank you to Hana Kim, Director of the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library for collaborating & making possible #LiterASIANToronto. Wayne Ng, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Mai Nguyen, & Carrianne Leung for such a rich, thoughtful, and engaging panel. east.library.utoronto.ca/eal-newsletter…
- Jessica Chan read Jim Wong-Chu’s new poem “My Aunt,” in the anthology, “Infusion.” Jessica shared heartfelt memories as Ricepaper’s Editor & Jim’s influence on her career. Jessica based her thesis on her work at Ricepaper summit.sfu.ca/item/10185 #asiancanadian #literasian
- This launch of the anthology is Volume #4 of Ricepaper Magazine Books, a collection of anthologies featuring Asian Canadian & Asian diasporic literary works darkhelixpress.com/acww/ #asiancanadian #literasiantoronto
- Thank you to everyone who attended LiterASIAN Toronto 2025! Congratulations to authors of the new anthology, “Infusion” featuring new writing in Ricepaper Magazine darkhelixpress.com/acww/infusion/ #asiancanadian #LiterASIANToronto #literasian2025
- Join us in celebrating former Chief BC Human Rights Commissioner and social justice warrior Mary-Woo Sims, who was recently conferred honorary degrees from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University! on June 13 marywoosims2025.eventbrite.ca #asiancanadian
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- LiterASIAN Festival 2025 returns to Vancouver! Check out our festival program with events and featured authors here literasian.com
- We are heartbroken by the tragic events at the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party in Vancouver. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and the entire Filipino-Canadian community as we grieve alongside them in this time of immense sorrow. #vancouver #asiancanadian
- We mourn this senseless loss and offer our deepest condolences, standing together in solidarity and mourning. #asiancanadian #vancouver #lapulapufestival
- Longtime friend and supporter of ACWW, Meena Wong, and longtime board member and original member, Sean Gunn share a smile together the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC AGM Dinner honouring Winnie L. Cheung cchsbc.ca #asiancanadian
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- Donna Seto's @donnaseto.bsky.social Book Launch: Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History Sunday, May 25, 3pm at the Chinatown Storytelling Centre asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/04/book... #asiancanadian
- ACWW President Todd Wong with Catherine Clement, curator and author of "The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act". Catherine will be a featured author at this year's LiterASIAN Festival at the Chinese Canadian Museum on June 28, 2025. Stay tuned for more! #asiancanadian #literasian
- ACWW 30th-anniversary throwback to the good times. Readings at the Alice MacKay Room at the VPL, circa May 30, 2003, featuring legendary poets, Roy Miki and Rita Wong, with the indomitable Todd Wong, now President of ACWW asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/03/cele... #asiancanadian
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- Young upstart crew during the day. Readings at the Grind & Gallery Cafe. Those here include Grace Chin, Hanako Masutani, and C.E. Gatchalian, pictured in 2003. asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/03/cele... #asiancanadian #30yearsofACWW
- ACWW offers its deepest condolences to Vancouver Writers Fest founder Alma Lee, who passed away recently. In 2019, Alma presented a moving tribute at Wayson's public memorial. Thank you Alma, for all your work in the community. You will be missed. youtu.be/kH5Y_Ondzfw?...
- North Shore Writers Festival is happening soon. Check out the lineup of wonderful writers, including our friend JJ Lee @jjleeshouldwrite.bsky.social www.nvdpl.ca/post/join-us...
- Pioneers of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Society. Celebrating 30 years of ACWW. Sid Tan, Todd Wong, Jim Wong-Chu, and Sean Gunn here in this photo. circa 2002. asiancanadianwriters.ca/2025/03/cele... #asiancanadian #diversityLIT #ACWW30Years
- Congratulations to Winnie L. Cheung, our former director and longtime supporter of ACWW. Your recognition is well-deserved, and thank you for all that you do in the community! #asiancanadian
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- It is a pleasure to see Catherine Lewis as the featured poet at Gung Haggis Fat Choy! www.catherinewriter.com #asiancanadian #gunghaggisfatchoy
- Reposted by Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW)Gung Haggis Fat Choy returns on Sunday, January 26, 2025! Let's celebrate Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day together at Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2025! Tickets are available now for purchase! eventbrite.ca/e/gung-haggi... #intercultural #ChinatownYVR #VancouverYVR #dimsum
- BC Care Awards honour those whose make significant impact to the quality of life of older adults in BC. ACWW’s Eric Li, as Chair of the Broadway Lodge Family Circle, is a voice for his mother & senior residents, & families of Broadway Lodge. Congratulations, Eric! bccare.ca/2024/12/2024...
