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(Created page with "{{AAType |Image=Literasian.jpeg |Home page=https://literasian.com/ |Location=Vancouver |Type=Group }} LiterASIAN Festival is a Vancouver-based literary festival dedicated to celebrating and advancing Asian Canadian writing and thought. Founded by [https://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/w/Jim_Wong_Chu/ Jim Wong-Chu] and [https://asiancanadianwiki.org/w/Allan_Cho/ Allan Cho], the festival is more than a series of readings or panels, but functions as a community-rooted cultural...")
 
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The festival brings together emerging and established writers, scholars, librarians, educators, and community members in conversations that move fluidly between literary craft and cultural analysis. Events typically include readings, moderated discussions, and interviews that emphasize dialogue, accessibility, and intellectual rigour. Rather than prioritizing spectacle or market-driven visibility, LiterASIAN values relationship-building, mentorship, and sustained engagement.
The festival brings together emerging and established writers, scholars, librarians, educators, and community members in conversations that move fluidly between literary craft and cultural analysis. Events typically include readings, moderated discussions, and interviews that emphasize dialogue, accessibility, and intellectual rigour. Rather than prioritizing spectacle or market-driven visibility, LiterASIAN values relationship-building, mentorship, and sustained engagement.


A defining strength of LiterASIAN is its expansive and evolving understanding of “Asian Canadian,” encompassing diverse diasporas, generations, and perspectives. The festival creates space for complexity and difference, encouraging critical reflection on representation, responsibility, and the ethics of storytelling.
Over the years, the festival has featured a wide range of influential Asian Canadian writers, including Madeleine Thien, Fred Wah, Joy Kogawa, Rita Wong, and Evelyn Lau, among others. Their participation reflects the festival’s commitment to bringing together established and emerging voices across genres, generations, and diasporic experiences.


Through its integration into Vancouver’s broader Asian Canadian arts and literary scene, LiterASIAN contributes to the development of Asian Canadian literary writing. For more than fifteen years now, it has played a vital role in supporting emerging voices and affirming Asian Canadian literature as an integral part of Canada’s cultural and intellectual life.
A defining feature of LiterASIAN is its expansive understanding of “Asian Canadian,” making space for diversity, complexity, and critical reflection rather than a singular narrative. Closely connected to Vancouver’s broader Asian Canadian arts and literary scene, the festival plays an important role in mentorship of Asian Canadian literary writers, affirming literature as both an artistic and collective practice.
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