TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Invitation to the 2015 HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings, FilAm Book Fest

Monday, September 28, 2015

Invitation to the 2015 HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings, FilAm Book Fest

I'll be moderating the HOT OFF THE PRESS Author Readings on Saturday October 3 and Sunday October 4, at the Koret Auditorium, see schedules below. These literary readings are part of the Third Filipino American Book Festival, Oct. 2-4, 2015, San Francisco Main Library: 100 Larkin Street, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA 94102

I'll also be moderating the panel on Filipino American Literature on Saturday, October 3, from 11-noon (a discussion on the direction of Fil Am literature in the 21st century, with Panelists: Barbara Jane Reyes, Luis Francia, Eileen Tabios, Erin Entrada Kelly.)

Here's the lineup of the 2015 HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings:

Saturday, October 3, 2015, 1:45 – 2:45 p.m. Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library

• Barbara Jane Reyes: To Love as Aswang (PAWA, Inc., 2015)
• Tony Robles: Cool Don’t Live Here No More (Ithuriel Spear, 2015)
• Jaime Alonso Yrastorza: From Fire to Freedom: Childhood in Colonial Philippines to Post WWII Adulthood in America (2014)
• Eileen Tabios: INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & New 1996-2015 (Dos Madres Press, Ohio, 2015); I FORGOT LIGHT BURNS (Moria Books, Chicago, 2015); AGAINST MISANTHROPY: A Life in Poetry (2015-1995) (BlazeVOX Books, New York, 2015); SUN STIGMATA: Sculpture Poems (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2014); 147 MILLION ORPHANS (Gradient Books, Finland, 2014)
• Luis Francia: Tattered Boat (University of the Philippines Press, 2014), RE: Recollections, Reviews, Reflections (UP Press, 2015)
• Mg Roberts: not so, sea (Durga Press, 2014)
• Tessie Jayme: Black Clouds in Manila. After the Ashes (Book Baby, 2014)
• Rolando Laudico, Yolanda Johnson: Bistro Filipino (SouMak Collections, Inc.) *Jeannette Yñiguez will read on behalf of author and editor.
• Daniel Roddick: Four Sparrows. A Tale of Race and Survival in the California Gold Rush (Create Space, 2015)
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Sunday, October 4, 2015, 1:45 – 2:45 p.m. Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library

• Lisa Suguitan Melnick: #30 Collantes Street (Carayan Press, 2015)
• Erin Entrada Kelly: Blackbird Fly (Harper Collins, Greenwillow Books, 2015)
• Candy Gourlay: Shine (Tamarind Books, 2015)
• Patty Enrado: A Village in the Fields (Eastwind Books of Berkeley, 2015)
• Aimee Suzara: Souvenir (WordTech Communications, 2014)
• Arlene Biala: Her Beckoning Hands (WordTech Communications, 2014)
• Jules Delgallego: The Brothers Luna. Madmen or Geniuses (2014)
• Myles Garcia: 30 years Later...Catching Up with the Marcos-Era Misdeeds
• Rick Rocamora: Blood, Sweat, Hope, and Quiapo. Rodallie S. Mosende’s Story. (Photographs by Rick Rocamora, Foreward by Rene Ciriacruz, Essay by Dan Amosin)

I hope to see some of you there!

For the complete Festival schedule, please visit this site.

Read also:
The First Filipino American International Book Festival
HOT OFF THE PRESS 2011
Fiction by Filipinos in America
Tags: literature, books, Philippines, Philippine American, Filipino American, literary reading, FilAm, festival, FilAm Book Festival

This is all for now,
Cecilia

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.