TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: #Authors Myles Garcia, Wesley St. Jo & Reme Grefalda in HOT OFF THE PRESS LITERARY READINGS Oct. 7 & 8, 2017 #FilAm Book Fest

Thursday, August 31, 2017

#Authors Myles Garcia, Wesley St. Jo & Reme Grefalda in HOT OFF THE PRESS LITERARY READINGS Oct. 7 & 8, 2017 #FilAm Book Fest

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Here are three more authors who'll be participating in the HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings in San Francisco on October 7 and 8, 2017. These readings are part of the Filipino American International Book Festival. They will be held at the San Francisco Main Library at 100 Larkin Street, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA 94102.

I'll be featuring more participants of the HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings, so stay tuned,

To view the complete schedule of the three HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings, click here : http://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2017/09/schedule-hot-off-press-literary.html

Wesley St. Jo & Reme Grefalda will be reading from Blue, published by Paloma Press, 2017

WESLEY ST. JO is the pen name of artist and writer CECILIA IBARDALOZA. Her work has been featured in various online and print media including the anthologies, Finding God (Anvil, 2009) and A Taste of Home (Anvil, 2008). Cecilia recently conceptualized the Mi-Go Zine project, a DIY periodical devoted to exploring the connections between popular culture and politics.

REMÉ GREFALDA is the author of baring more than soul and The Other Blue Book: On The High Seas of Discovery. She co-authored a Ford Foundation report, Towards A Cultural Community: Identity, Education and Stewardship in Filipino American Performing Arts. She is the recipient of the Philippines Palanca Award for her full length play, In the Matter of Willie Grayson, produced and staged at Howard University in Washington D.C.

Myles Garcia will be reading from Of Adobo, Apple Pie, and Schnitzel with Noodles, published by MAG Publishing 2017

Myles Garcia has previously authored two other books: Secrets of the Olympic Ceremonies and last year’s Thirty Years Later . . . Catching Up with the Marcos-Era Crimes. He is also a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) to whose Journal he has contributed a few articles. Recently, Myles also stretched his wings as a playwright, fine-tuning and workshopping his first, full-length stage play, 23 Renoirs, 12 Picassos . . . one Domenica. Finally, Myles is a Correspondent and regular contributor to Positively Filipino, on which a major portion of his new book, Of Adobo, Apple Pie, and Schnitzel with Noodles, first appeared.

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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.