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2024 NEWS Updates of PALH (Philippine American Literary House)

2024 NEWS Updates of PALH (Philippine American Literary House)

PALH is proud to announce that some of its titles will be showcased at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair including:

A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories by Linda Ty-Casper (also published by UST Ph)
Will You Happen, Past the Silence, Through the Dark: Remembering Leonard Ralph Casper by Linda Ty-Casper (also published by the Ateneo de Manila)
Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories by Veronica Montes (also published by UST Ph)
Magdalena by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (also published by UST Ph)
The Newspaper Widow by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (also published by UST Ph)
Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (also published by UST Ph)

When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard will also be at 2024 Frankfurt (published by UST Ph and University of Michigan Press)

Anthologies edited by Cecilia Brainard:
Asian and Philippine Folktales
Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America
Fiction by Filipinos in America
Growing Up Filipino 1,2, and 3

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, who will be a Philippine delegate at the the Frankfurt Book Fair will will be on hand to discuss the books she authored and edited; and she will also discuss titles published by PALH.

For the PALH catalogue- scan QR code above.

Further, PALH announces the forthcoming publications:

Fundamentals of Creative Writing, Revised and Expanded Edition by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. An earlier version was published by Anvil in 2009 but is now out of print. The author has revised and expanded the book which is used by many teachers of creative writing.

Magnificat: Mama Mary's Pilgrim Sites, collected and edited by Cecilia Brainard - this religious book includes personal testimonies of individuals and the book has an Imprimatur by Archbishop of Manila Luis Tagle. The earlier 2012 by Anvil is out of print.

PALH is also proud to announce that Linda Ty-Casper's Will You Happen, Past the Silence, Through the Dark: Remembering Leonard Ralph Casper (PALH 2022) has a Philippine edition by the Ateneo de Manila Press (2023). Linda Ty-Casper's novel, Three-Cornered Sun was reissued in 2024 by Exploding Galaxies in Manila.

Veronica Montes' Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories, published by PALH in 2017 has a Philippine edition by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House (2024).

Please visit PALHBOOKS.com (News Updates) for more information.

Tags: Philippine books, Filipino books, FilAm books, Asian American books

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.