Empowering Vietnamese American Literature and Culture

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

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Latest from diaCRITICS, DVAN’s Online Magazine

Two poems by Jeric Tindoy Olay

How the cantankerous sun has rendered the blooms of Rosal unconstrained!
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In the Diaspora: April 2024

►Ouster of parliament chief bares Vietnam corruption, power struggle►Vietnam’s Economy: Mixed signs of Recovery►Vietnamese teen turns seashell souvenirs into Yale scholarship success story►Four Vietnamese nationals held in Facebook people smugglers probe►On a journey through Vietnam with two historic figures,...

Book Review: The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu

About five years ago, I watched Susan Lieu perform her one-woman show, 140LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother as part of the Center for Asian American Media’s CAAMFest in San Francisco. The show captured Susan’s journey as she tried...

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