His new poetry collection, The Four Sufferings (Mawenzi House Publishers, Toronto), and new novel, Mysterious Dreams of the Dead (Anvil Press, Vancouver),were released at about the same time.
Another new poetry collection, Crows at Sunset, was a finalist in the international competition, Eyelands Book Awards, held in Athens, Greece.
As a playwright, he has seen five of his plays receive a mainstage production, starting with Dear Wes/Love Muriel during the Earth Spirit Festival at Harbourfront in 1991.
The book received glowing reviews from the Georgia Straight, the Vancouver Bulletin, the Globe and Mail and the Winnipeg Free Press.
He also released his children's book "The Nishga Girl", the story of Judo Jack Tasaka and Eli Gosnell, the chief of the Nisg'a people.
He was recently contracted to write 12 columns for Discover Nikkei, a publication of the Japanese American National Museum, located in Los Angeles CA> His other essays have been published in such varied magazines, journals and books as Ricepaper, Canadian Literature (UBC),[1] Ritsumeikan Hogaku “Kotoba to sonohirogari” (Ritsumeikan University Press, Kyoto Jpn), Crossing the Ocean: Japanese American Culture from Past to Present, Jimbun-shoin Press (Kyoto Jpn), the National Library of Canada’s website, and Anti-Asian Violence in North America (AltaMira Press, California).
His short memoir about Etsuji Morii and Rikimatsu Kintaro appeared in the anthology "Vancouver Confidential" (Anvil Press, 2014).
In addition to his literary work, Terry Watada is also a singer/songwriter/producer with a number of records to his credit, including: Night's Disgrace, Runaway Horses, Yellow Fever, Living in Paradise and The Art of Protest, among others.
He received in 2014 the Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Award, an honour given every two years by the National Association of Japanese Canadians.