events & appearances

recent & upcoming events

August 5, 2023 @ 1pm PT | Powell Street Festival, Vancouver, BC
Erica H Isomura joined author and journalist Emi Sasagawa for a literary reading of Sasagawa’s debut novel, Atomweight, which was recently listed in CBC’s 86 works of Canadian fiction to read in the first half of 2023. This was followed by a conversation about writing genres, identity, and Sasagawa’s creative process.

As the Blue Cabin artist-in-residence, Erica delivered a series of free public programs including writing workshops and an artist talk in Steveston Village, Richmond, BC.

July 15, 2023 @ 1pm PT| Writing Workshop: Re-making Memory: Exploring Family, Ancestry, & Origin Stories, Richmond, BC

July 22, 2023 @ 1pm PT | Artist Talk: How Erica H Isomura writes into the gaps of family history, Richmond, BC

July 29, 2023 @ 1pm PT | Writing Workshop: Re-making Memory: Exploring Family, Ancestry, & Origin Stories, Richmond, BC

May 3, 2023 @ 2:45pm MT | ReVerb: Echo-Locations of Sound, Edmonton, AB
A poetry reading and panel alongside Emily Riddle and Sacha Ouellet at the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium.

past events

Poster for the Real Vancouver Writers series in May 2022 with Lori Fox, Chelsea Vowel, Dan K Woo, Katie Welch, Jen Ferguson and Erica H Isomura

Vines Festival: Artist Care Fundraiser poster

Headshots of authors Hiromi Goto, Sarah Leavitt, and Erica H Isomura for SFU Library's One Book One SFU event on March 9, 2022.

Image of a sun rising from an ocean mist under decorative text reading "From the prairies to the pacific rim" Listen at PowellStreetFestival.com

Coral pink background with white design imagery of two hands reaching for one another. Text reads: The Japanese Canadian Writer's Circle (Mata Ashita)

Image of a gallery space with a projection on the wall. Red text overlaid on top reads title of exhibit, HUMAN CAPITAL.

Picture of Erica holding a salmon with the text Guest Host, Erica Hiroko Isomura: On Food and Culture for Community Building. Blue background with decorative border.

Title text reads, Word Vancouver, September 19-27, 2020. Writer's Lineage Panel, LGBTQ2S Programming. Four people in black and white photos are pictured in a square.

Poster shows a flower in the desert with the text, "A memory is too powerful a weapon." Title text reads Displacement: in conversation with yonsei artists Kiku Hughes and Erica Isomura. youtube.com/VanCAF, supported by Vancouver Comic Arts Festival

Hiromi Goto and Erica Isomura are pictured with the titled text, Queer Arts Festival, A Conversation on Queer Mentorship. Hiromi has short grey hair and wears a black t-shirt. Erica has long dark hair and stands behind a branch of white plum blossoms.

Image of an illustration of sign that reads "I-Hotel" text reads "Lessons from I-Hotel with Japanese American author Karen Tei Yamashita and members of the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative and Right to Remain. Friday November 8, 2019, 8pm at 1. E Hastings

Word Vancouver poster with green and orange shapes. Two headshots of Joseph Onodi and Erica Isomura.

Title text reads Re-Pronunciation, New work by yonsei women writing. Date Saturday August 3, 2019 at 5pm at the Firehall Arts Centre, 280 E Cordova Street with Laura Fukumoto, Carolyn Nakagawa, and Erica Isomura

recorded events

One Book One SFU 2022

SFU Library | March 2022

An evening of comics and conversation with Hiromi Goto and Sarah Leavitt to celebrate Shadow Life, selected for One Book One SFU, Simon Fraser University's campus-wide book club.

Presented by SFU Library, SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement, and SFU Public Square.

Publication Launch of 'HUMAN CAPITAL'

MacKenzie Art Gallery | January 2021

A reading of "FOR THE DREAMERS," published in Briarpatch and selected as the creative non-fiction winner in the 8th annual Writing in the Margins Contest by author Alicia Elliott.

Publication launch of HUMAN CAPITAL by Briarpatch and the Mackenzie Art Gallery.

Our Stories Embodied

Vines Festival (New Brighton Park) | August 2021

A poetry reading by yonsei writers Erica H Isomura, Laura Fukumoto, and Carolyn Nakagawa.

These poetics offer gratitude to the land that provided a home to ancestors a century ago, taking place beside Hastings Park, which served as a detention centre during the 1942 Japanese Canadian incarceration.

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