Empowering Vietnamese American Literature and Culture

The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) celebrates and fosters diasporic Vietnamese literary voices. DVAN promotes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry to empower Vietnamese artists in the diaspora to inspire understanding and dialogue within our community, and with others. Our complex and diverse stories must be championed and passed on to current and future generations. We are refugees, immigrants, survivors, and descendants, and our stories must be heard.

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Empowered Voices

“Broken Rice Style”: A Conversation with Kimberly Nguyễn

In the Bible, water transforms by cleansing, but you can always become dirty again. But if you put something through fire, it comes out completely different. When you burn something to ashes, you cannot undo that. I am really fascinated by the transformative quality of fire.

Film Review: Nocebo by Lorcan Finnegan

For a film that has no short supply of horror, both psychological and visceral, I find these scenes the most dreadful precisely because both are all too common scenarios involving migrant live-in care workers, often women coming from labor-exporting countries like the Philippines.

My Father and the River

“Be patient,” he said, as if he could hear my thoughts. “You need to understand what I’m about to say, okay?”

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