TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Pictures - HOT OFF THE PRESS Reading & Filipino American Book Festival, Sunday Oct. 20, 2013

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Pictures - HOT OFF THE PRESS Reading & Filipino American Book Festival, Sunday Oct. 20, 2013

Here are pictures taken at the last day of the Filipino American Book Festival in San Francisco. We also had the second HOT OFF THE PRESS reading, which also went very well. I'm whipped, folks, so I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Thanks to the organizers and writers. I enjoyed moderating the HOT OFF THE PRESS literary readings. The writers were professional and considerate and most talented. Congratulations to them, once again.

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Ate Logo,

Cecilia

Seated l-r: Barbara Jane Reyes, Marianne Villanueva, Cecilia Brainard; Standing l-r: E.R. Escober, Kristian Kabuay, Nieves Catahan Villamin, Evelina Galang, Angelo Merino, Jay Bautista, Giovanni Ortega, Cecilia Brainard

l-r: Cecilia, Oscar Penaranda Evelina Galang, Marily Orosa

l-r: Marily Orosa, Penelope Flores, Evelina Galang, Cecilia Brainar

l-r: E.R. Escober, Lorenzo Paran

Seated l-r: Linda Nietes, Jay Bautista, Standing l-r: Edwin Lozada, Nieves Catahan Villamin, Kristian Kabuay, Evelina Galang, Angelo Merino, Cecilia Brainard

Seated l-r: Evelina Galang, Marily Orosa, Standing, Cecilia

Seated l-r: Evelina Galang, Marily Orosa, Standing l-r: Linda Nietes, Marianne Villanueva, Cecilia

Some of Cecilia's books, Philippine Expressions

Dawn Mabalon, Evelina Galang

Marily Orosa, Gemma Nemezo, Cecilia, Susan Po Rufino

Marily Orosa, Lorenzo Paran, Cecilia

Marily Orosa and Lorenzo Paran

Marily Orosa, Gemma Nemezo, Mitchell Yangson, Cecilia

Marie Romero and Cecilia

tags: Filipino American book festival, Filipino American, literature, writers, authors

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.