select writings & publications
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"Embracing Water Through Poetry" for THIS magazine, January/February 2022
"Worthy of Being Called Whole: On the 'Asian Canadian' Literary Landscape" for Write magazine, Summer 2021
"Lessons for future ancestors: Reflections on mentorship with Hiromi Goto" for Room Magazine, Winter 2021
"Pink + Green" in Room Magazine, issue 43.2
"FOR THE DREAMERS" in Briarpatch Magazine, March/April 2019
"Japanese Problem/Chinese Problem" on Medium, December 2017
"The History and the Struggle: My Interview with Japanese Canadian lesbian activist Lily Shinde" on ColorBloq, January 2017
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poetry
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"re: birth" in The Fiddlehead, no. 290, winter issue
"MOTION" in Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, issue 18.2
"i decay, bro" in The Maynard, vol. 14, no. 2
"A JC cento, or why does silence become a shard?" in carte blanche, issue 41
"traditional medicine" in Poetry is Dead, issue 17
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fiction
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"shades of brown exist in the forest" in Writers 4 Utopia zine, issue 3
"There Was Nothing Festive About The Fair at the PNE in 1942" & "subject line: baby-making" in emerge 18 (SFU Publications, 2018)
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awards & honourable mentions
"Language is," 2021 CBC Poetry Prize longlist
"re: birth," Prism International's 2021 Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V Short Forms longlist
Recipient of Room Magazine's 2021 Emerging Writer Award
"FOR THE DREAMERS," First place in Briarpatch's 2019 Writing in the Margins Contest for creative non-fiction
media & interviews
Room's 2021 Emerging Writer Award Winner is erica hiroko isomura!
Interview by Tamara Jong for Room Magazine, March 2021
Interview by Tamara Jong for Room Magazine, March 2021
Interview with Erica Hiroko Isomura, a Vancouver-based Writer at the Queer Arts Festival 2020
Interview with Queer FM radio, July 21, 2020
Interview with Queer FM radio, July 21, 2020
Queer Arts Festival: A Conversation on Queer Mentorship with Hiromi Goto + Erica Hiroko Isomura
Interview by John Endo Greenaway for The Bulletin: a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history + culture, July 13, 2020
Interview by John Endo Greenaway for The Bulletin: a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history + culture, July 13, 2020
select performances & recordings
From the Prairies to the Pacific Rim: a poetic exchange & artist conversation
With Rita Wong, Emily Riddle, & Sacha Ouellet / Powell Street Festival, August 2021
Tracing ancestries, activism, and creative endeavours from amiskwaciwȃskahikan (Edmonton) in the Prairies, across the Rockies, and into the Salish Sea, this audio segment blends poetry, conversation, and field recordings. Includes readings of "night walk" and "holders" by Rita Wong, "Sokeciwan maka" by Emily Riddle, "fireweed shakes" by Sacha Ouellet, and "mourning song" by Erica Hiroko Isomura
yonsei writing: SOFT POEMS 4 HARD TIMES
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With Laura Fukumoto & Carolyn Nakagawa / Vines Art Festival, August 2021
An outdoor reading at New Brighton Park, located beside the PNE at Hastings Park, which served as a detention centre during the 1942 Japanese Canadian incarceration. These poems offer gratitude to the land that provided a home to our ancestors, a century ago.
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Digital Publication Launch: Briarpatch
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MacKenzie Art Gallery, January 2021
A reading of "FOR THE DREAMERS," first published in Briarpatch magazine and creative non-fiction winner of their 2019 Writing in the Margins Contest.
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Displacement: In conversation with Kiku Hughes
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VanCAF, September 2020
Erica Hiroko Isomura and Kiku Hughes, author of Displacement (First Second Books, 2020), discuss family history, reclamation of queer stories, model minority myths in America, and the significance of these narratives to the racial justice movement.
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