Every year, the living and the dead in Vietnam eagerly await the return of Tet, a mobile feast corresponding to the new moon and placed halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

Every year, the living and the dead in Vietnam eagerly await the return of Tet, a mobile feast corresponding to the new moon and placed halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

Forthcoming May 2026Preorder NowFrom the backstreets of Saigon to the sprawl of suburban Texas, Gills gathers stories of longing, estrangement, and quiet transformation. In luminous, sometimes...

DVAN and Texas Tech University Press are excited to announce that our book series is once again OPEN for submissions! We invite early career and emerging writers from the Vietnamese American and Southeast Asian community to submit unpublished poetry manuscripts.

The traveling exhibit, Textures of Remembrance: Vietnamese Artists and Writers Reflect on the Vietnamese Diaspora, is now on display at Misericordia University’s Pauly Friedman Art Gallery.

We are thrilled to share an important and joyful milestone in the evolution of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).After thoughtful discussion and...

DVAN Co-Founder and Board President Viet Thanh Nguyen has been honored with the 2025 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement for his extraordinary contributions to the American literary landscape.

DVAN Executive Director Isabelle Pelaud sat down with Unseen Histories for a conversation about The Cleaving – an anthology of dialogues between Vietnamese writers across borders. Isabelle discussed how race, colonialism, and war crucially inform Vietnamese literature, particularly with the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in Trump’s America.

Three writers from across the Vietnamese diaspora write about the war and its lasting impacts on refugees and future generations in a new issue of the literary magazine McSweeney’s, titled “The Make Believers.” DVAN Executive Director Isabelle Pelaud, along with author Thi Bui and writer and journalist Doan Bui, joined KQED Forum to share what the anniversary means for them.

DVAN Executive Director Isabelle Pelaud discussed McSweeney's 78: The Make Believers with Lakshmi Sarah on KQED's Newscast on April 26, 2025. McSweeney's invited all the writers from DVAN's 2023 Residency in France to create a special issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on April 30.