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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 We invite early career and emerging writers from the Vietnamese American and Southeast Asian community to submit unpublished poetry manuscripts.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.

DVAN Executive Director Isabelle Pelaud and COO Kathy Nguyen joined Rose Aguilar on KALW’s Your Call to reflect on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. They discussed STILL WE RISE – DVAN’s landmark event on April 26, 2025 – and why it’s more important than ever to create space for stories by and for the Vietnamese diaspora.

DVAN’s Menlo Park launch for The Cleaving was featured on the front page of the Metro Silicon Valley on April 23, 2025. The release party at Kepler’s Books included readings and a discussion with Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Lan P. Duong, Doan Bui, and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. Read the full article.

The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is proud to present Still We Rise: 50 Years After the Vietnam War on April 26, 2025 – a landmark event that will unite internationally acclaimed authors and groundbreaking artists of the Vietnamese diaspora for a powerful evening of reflections, poetry, and music.