TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Brian Ascalon Roley in HOT OFF THE PRESS LITERARY READING Oct. 9, 2021 #HOTP

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Brian Ascalon Roley in HOT OFF THE PRESS LITERARY READING Oct. 9, 2021 #HOTP

12/21 Statement from Cecilia Manguerra Brainard regarding PAWA and Hot Off the Press Literary Readings: Please be informed that I will no longer be working on future Hot Off the Press Literary Readings (HOTP) and other programs with the San Francisco group PAWA (also known as PAWA, Inc.). This group is also known as Philippine American Writers and Artists, Filipino American International Book Festival, Filbookfestival.org. You can contact me directly for more information.
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2021 HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading, a program of the Filipino American International Book Festival, and sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library & PAWA, will go virtual this year, on Saturday, October 9, 2021 Californa Time, from 5-6:30 p.m.

Register at the San Francisco Public Library, Events page: https://sfpl.org/events/#!/filters?date-end-after=10/09/2021

Getting to know Brian Ascalon Roley. In 2020 Brian became a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellow.

He has received additional fellowships and awards from the the University of Cambridge, Cornell University, the Ohio Arts Council, the Djerassi Foundation, Ragdale, and the VCCA, among others. His books include American Son: a novel , which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Notable Book, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist, and winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Prose Book Award, among other honors and has been taught widely. His collection, The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal (Northwestern University Press) appeared in April 2016. He is currently Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio.

He will read from his award-winning chapbook, Ambuscade.

His website is brianroley.com. Look for his books in Eastwind Books of Berkeley, among other US booksellers.

PRESS RELEASE: https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2021/08/press-release-2021-hot-off-press.html
Eventbrite link: https://tinyurl.com/24ucb88u
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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.