TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Writing Workshop with Author Cecilia Brainard at the Carlos Bulosan Book Club

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Writing Workshop with Author Cecilia Brainard at the Carlos Bulosan Book Club

Join Author Cecilia Brainard on Saturday April 19, 2025, California time for a two-hour Creative Writing Workshop at 2 pm. This workshop is in-person and virtual, join at 1:45 p.m, PST.

Please register at
RSCP link: https://bit.ly/RSVPforCBBCEvents

The two-hour workshop will look at the fundamentals of creative writing, including character, conflict, plot, and there will in-class exercises, all in a fun and supportive environment. Join us!

BIO:
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the author and editor of over 22 books. She has written three novels: When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Magdalena, and The Newspaper Widow. Her recent books include Fundamentals of Creative Writing, Revised and Expanded Edition, and Growing Up Filipino 3: New Stories for Young Adults.
She has received several awards, including an Outstanding Individual Award from her birthplace of Cebu Philippines, a California Arts Council Fellowship, a Brody Arts Fund, several travel grants from the US Embassy, the 40th National Book Award and the Cirilo F. Bautista Prize.
She has taught at UCLA, USC, the California State Summer School for the Arts, the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension and she continues to lecture and perform in literary arts venues and universities.
Her official website is https://ceciliabrainard.com

Tags: Filipino novelist, Filipino writer, Filipino author, Philippine literature

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.