The first ever Filipino American International Book Festival will be held in San Francisco on October 1 and 2. Some 100 Filipino writers from all over the world will converge in the Bay Area for the event. I'll be there and will be in several readings.
First:I'll be in a Literary Reading "The Places We Call Home" at the Eastwind Books of Berkeley. I'll be reading with Oscar Bermeo, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Barbara Jane Reyes, Sunny Vergara, and Veronica Montes. That'll be on Thursday, September 29, at 7 p.m., and Eastwind is on 2066 University Avenue, Berkeley, 94704. Veronica Montes organized the reading at Eastwind in conjunction with the FilAm International Book Festival. Bios of readers follow:
Oscar Bermeo was born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx. He is the author of the poetry chapbooks Anywhere Avenue, Palimpsest, Heaven Below and To the Break of Dawn.
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author of eight books, including the internationally-acclaimed novel When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Magdalena, and Vigan and Other Stories.
Rashaan Alexis Meneses earned her MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California’s Creative Writing Program, where she was named a 2005-2006 Jacob K. Javits Fellow and awarded the Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz Scholarship for Excellence in Fiction.
Veronica Montes is the co-author of Angelica’s Daughters, as well as a short story writer whose work has appeared in Bamboo Ridge, Growing Up Filipino, and Philippine Speculative Fiction 5.
Barbara Jane Reyes is a recipient of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets and the author of Diwata, which was recently noted as a finalist for the California Book Award.
Benito M. Vergara, Jr. was born and raised in the Philippines. He is the author of Displaying Filipinos: Photography and Colonialism in Early 20th-Century Philippines and Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City.
For more info about the Berkeley Reading, visit this site: http://www.asiabookcenter.com/event/places-we-call-home-poetry-event
Second: PALH (Philippine American Literary House) will have a booth near Philippine Expressions. John Silva, Marily Orosa, Veronica Montes, Tony Robles, and I will be in the booth. We'll be there on Oct. 1 and 2; please stop by and say hi!
The book festival will take place in three adjacent locations in the Civic Center: the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin St., the Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., and on Fulton Street between Hyde and Larkin streets.
Third: Veronica and I are hosting 2 literary readings: HOT OFF THE PRESS, on Oct. 1, and Oct 2, from 12-1: 30 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium. Some 20 talented writers will be participating. More information forthcoming.
For more information about the Book Festival, please visit this site:
http://filbookfest.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/a-festival-like-no-other/
Monday, September 12, 2011
HOT OFF THE PRESS: LITERARY READINGS and MORE
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.
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