TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Publishing: PALH or Philippine American Literary House

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Publishing: PALH or Philippine American Literary House

PALH or Philippine American Literary House

From the site http://palhbooks-press.blogspot.com, here's information about this press:

PALH also known as Philippine American Literary House is a small press that publishes high quality fiction and creative non-fiction by Filipino Americans and other Filipinos.

PALH's beginnings connect with PAWWA (Philippine American Women Writers and Artists), an award-winning group that supported other Filipina writers and artists and provided community service. PAWWA recognized the lack of Filipino and Filipino American books in the United States and encouraged PAWWA co-founders Cecilia Brainard and Susan Montepio to start PALH. PALH continues under the leadership of Cecilia Brainard with the help of an Advisory Board.

PAWWA Co-founders

PALH's Advisory Board:

Rocío G. Davis is currently an independent scholar based in Spain. Her research interests include Asian North American writing, autobiography and history, postcolonialism, and children's literature. She was a founding member of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) and is currently Vice-President of the Association. Her publications include three monographs, five edited special issues of journals, and over 90 articles in books or journals.

Akemi Kikumura Yano is an anthropologist, museum curator, educator, and writer of books, plays, and professional papers, published in both English and Japanese. She is the author of Through Harsh Winters: The Life of An Immigrant Woman and Promises Kept: The Life of an Immigrant Man. Her most recent book is the Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of Nikkei. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from UCLA and taught at both UCLA & USC.

Paulino Lim, Jr. is emeritus professor at California State University, Long Beach. He earned a master's degree at University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and a doctorate at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of a book on Byron and five works of fiction, including a quartet of political novels on the Philippines

Edmundo F. Litton is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University where he is the Coordinator of the Secondary and Bilingual Programs. He completed his Master of Arts in Teaching degree at Georgetown University. He also holds an MA in Educational Technology and a Doctorate in Education in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco.

Reine Marie Melvin (left) is a Filipina editor, writer, and translator based in Paris, France. She has worked as the senior project editor of the International Herald Tribune.

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PALH's GENERAL MANAGER: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author and editor of 19 books. She teaches at the Writers Program of UCLA Extension.

Brian Ascalon Roley is the award-winning author of American Son: a novel (W.W. Norton), The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal and Other Stories, among others. He is an English Professor at Miami University of Ohio.

How to Submit to PALH

PALH will consider works of fiction and creative non-fiction by Filipino Americans and other Filipinos. Please email your Query and the first 10 pages (pasted on to the email, not an attachment) to palh@aol.com.

PALH's earlier publications include:

Journey of 100 Years: Reflections on the Centinnial of Philippine Independence,
Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults, and
Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults.

All titles have received excellent reviews by Booklist, School Library Journal, Amerasia Journal, and others. These books are available from Amazon.com, Philippine Expressions, PALH's site, among others. They are also available in E-book from from Kindle and Nook.

PALH's forthcoming books include A River, One Woman Deep: Short Stories and a Novella by Linda Ty-Casper (left), and the collected short stories of Veronica Montes (right).

PALH

PO Box 5099

Santa Monica, CA 90409

http://www.palhbooks.com

Email: palh@aol.com

Tags: Philippines, Philippine, Filipino, Filipina, literature, writers, novels, fiction, books, authors, Filipino-American, FilAm

Linda Ty-Casper's novels in E-format

In Honor or Filipino Writer, Linda Ty-Casper

Review of the Dugtungan novel, Angelica's Daughters

Filipino American International Book Festival

Fiction by Brian Ascalon Roley "Old Man"

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.