Hi, I'll be conducting a Creative Writing Workshop in Mankati, July 9, from 10-12 in Powerbooks, Greenbelt 4.
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Dear Sir/Madam:
Greetings from Anvil Publishing and Powerbooks! We wish to invite your Language and Literature teachers and your most gifted student writers to a workshop on CREATIVE WRITING by award-winning novelist and editor CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD on July 9 from 10 am to 12nn at Powerbooks Greenbelt 4.
The workshop covers the following;
Setting and Scene
Character development
Conflict development
Dialogue
Plot development
Point of View
Voice
Style, Theme, Tone
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author of eight books, including the internationally-acclaimed novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Magdalena, Vigan and Other Stories, Acapulco at Sunset and Other Stories, Philippine Woman in America, Woman With Horns and Other Stories, Cecilia's Diary 1962-1968, and Fundamentals of Creative Writing.
She edited four books: Growing Up Filipino I and II, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America. Cecilia co-edited six books, including Journey of 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of Philippine Independence; Behind the Walls: Life of Convent GirlsAla Carte: Food and Fiction, and Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters. She has also written a novel with four other women entitled, Angelica's Daughters, a Dugtungan Novel.
Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized.
Cecilia has received 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. She has also been awarded by the Filipino and Filipino American communities she has served. She received the prestigious Filipinas Magazine Arts Award, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has received several travel grants in the Philippines, from the USIS (United States Information Service).
She has lectured and performed in worldwide literary arts organizations and universities, including UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Beyond Baroque, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She teaches creative writing at the Writers Program at UCLA-Extension.
She is married to Lauren R. Brainard, a former Peace Corp Volunteer to Leyte, Philippines; they have three sons.
For reservations and inquiries, please call the ANVIL PUBLISHING marketing department tel. nos. 477-4752, 477-4755 to 57 loc. 807 or sign up at any customer service counter of any branch of POWERBOOKS.
Her website is www.ceciliabrainard.com
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Cecilia Brainard Conducts Creative Writing Workshop, July 9, in Manla
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.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
SANTO NINO EXHIBITS AND POWERBOOKS BOOKSTORE
Louie Nacorda, Val Sandiego, and some other Santo Nino devotees put up an exhibit of their beloved Santo Nino statues and images in SM Shopping center (reclamation area). There is another Santo Nino exhibit in the Cathedral Museum, and Nacorda et al had considered participating in that Cathedral exhibit, but they felt they needed more security guards for their prized statues and paintings. Apparently SM provided the three security guards, round the clock, for free, while the struggling Cathedral Museum couldn't offer the same.
The exhibit in SM had more statues and paintings with nice writeups, compared to the Cathedral Musuem's exhibit. However, the setting of the "bahay na bato" Cathedral Museum is more appropro for the Santo Nino Exhibit. In any case, both exhibits had a lot to offer.
My favorite in the Cathedral Museum was the the Santo Nino de Espina, an antique statue from Cusco, Peru, that shows the Child Jesus (in Peruvian garb) sitting on a chair, one leg crossed over the other, and the viewers can see that He has hurt his foot. In His hand,He holds a thorn in the shape of the Cross. I had several favorites in the SM exhibit, one of them a Spanish antique statue, around 4 feet tall, of the Child Jesus, in rich brocade clothing. There is another large statue of the Nino with curly blond hair - He looks almost like a female angel - and He has the sweetest face with a cleft chin. The SM exhibit also has a small Nino from Peru, the Sleeping Nino, which is quite charming.
Also in SM shopping center is the new Powerbooks bookstore, and to Cebuanos looking for my books, this bookstore carries quite a lot of my titles: Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, Behind the Walls, Growing Up Filipino, A La Carte, Food & Fiction, and Cecilia's Diary.
The storm in Cebu seems to have gone, and gone also are the nightly Sinulog drumming and dancing in the various barangays (communities).
All for now, from Cebu,
Cecilia
The exhibit in SM had more statues and paintings with nice writeups, compared to the Cathedral Musuem's exhibit. However, the setting of the "bahay na bato" Cathedral Museum is more appropro for the Santo Nino Exhibit. In any case, both exhibits had a lot to offer.
My favorite in the Cathedral Museum was the the Santo Nino de Espina, an antique statue from Cusco, Peru, that shows the Child Jesus (in Peruvian garb) sitting on a chair, one leg crossed over the other, and the viewers can see that He has hurt his foot. In His hand,He holds a thorn in the shape of the Cross. I had several favorites in the SM exhibit, one of them a Spanish antique statue, around 4 feet tall, of the Child Jesus, in rich brocade clothing. There is another large statue of the Nino with curly blond hair - He looks almost like a female angel - and He has the sweetest face with a cleft chin. The SM exhibit also has a small Nino from Peru, the Sleeping Nino, which is quite charming.
Also in SM shopping center is the new Powerbooks bookstore, and to Cebuanos looking for my books, this bookstore carries quite a lot of my titles: Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, Behind the Walls, Growing Up Filipino, A La Carte, Food & Fiction, and Cecilia's Diary.
The storm in Cebu seems to have gone, and gone also are the nightly Sinulog drumming and dancing in the various barangays (communities).
All for now, from Cebu,
Cecilia
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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