Creepy Halloween Pictures!
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Creepy Halloween Pictures!
Creepy Halloween Pictures!
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.
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Coming up -- Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
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.
Friday, October 20, 2017
Update Filipino American International Book Festival by Noelle Q. De Jesus
The following is by Guest Blogger, Noelle De Jesus, who writes about the recent Filipino American International Book Festival held in San Francisco (Oct. 7-8, 2017):
Update Filipino American International Book Festival
By Noelle Q. De Jesus
I imagine that a writer may feel any number of feelings when given the opportunity to take their work to a book festival, but I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be at least a small measure of elation, of satisfaction and indeed, of gratitude. That was certainly my own thought and sentiment brInging Blood Collected Stories to the 4th Filipino American International Book Festival in San Francisco this year. If I’m honest, I was at the extreme positive side of the spectrum. And of course, it was just great fun to be in San Francisco in October, to meet some of the 27 Filipino and Filipino American authors participants and have the pleasure of connecting with the new librarian of the Filipino American Center, Abraham Ignacio, and reconnecting with Edwin Lozada of PAWA and some of its other members, including founding members like Penelope Flores. By organizing and running this steadily growing event, they and all the members of the Filipino American organizing committee are doing the community and Filipino/Filipino American writers at large a wonderful service.
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.
Pictures: Toronto Reunion 2017 of Maryknoll Class of 1968
Maryknoll Class of 1968 Toronto Reunion 2017
Bottom Row l-r: Tere Concepcion, Lucy McGinley, Marichi Panganiban, Cecilia Brainard, Maria Ciocon, Cora Kinoshi;
Middle Row l-r: Esther Parker, Lorna Cruz, Josette Adams, Maricel Hahn, Marissa Tay, Med Kuney;
Top Row l-r: Luchie Ticson, Alice Edano, (seated) Tina Heiter, Susie Ramos, Precy Florentino, Bing Jacala, Edith Alcantara, Lina Dimayuga, GV Silverio
Bottom Row l-r: Maricel Lopez Hahn, Bing Velasco Jacala, Susie Ramos Montermoso, Med Villanueva Kuney, Luchie Pavia Ticson, GV Silverio, Tina Borja Heiter, Tere Valenton Concepcion, Precy Florentino, Marissa Munda Tay; Back Row l-r: Lina Flor Dimayuga,Alice Edano, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Marichi Santiago Panganiban, Lucy Adao McGinley, Lorna Cayco Cruz, Cora Kilayco Kinoshi, Esther Quintos Parker, Baby Navarro Ciocon, Josette Del Rosario Adams, Edith Alcantara
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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.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The Importance of Literature, by Linda Ty-Casper #FilBookFest2017
Noted Filipina Author, Linda Ty-Casper, could not attend the celebration of her new book, A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories (PALH 2017) at the Fourth Filipino American International Book Festival in San Francisco. Her daughter, Kristina Casper-Denham attended the HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, in Linda's place. Linda wrote the following, and with her permission I am sharing her wise words:
by Linda Ty-Casper
Reading our stories together, is a special communion of sharing, a recognition of the importance of literature to our lives, that of our lives to our country’s life; and our country’s life to that of the world.
All the different literatures form the “human geology” of the world: its human layers. Containing our stories, literature offers a human face and heart to historical dates and statistics, so our past
becomes visible to the present, becomes our own experience—enriching, strengthening us; giving us resilience.
It is in our literature that our history is kept safe from revisions. For literature is our true memory, our country’s memory, the world’s memory of us.
If we do not write our stories, who will? If we do not read them how will we know ourselves? Because it is in our literature that we pay full attention to ourselves, that we imagine and dream ourselves. As long as our literature exists, we will not disappear from our own thoughts, from the thoughts of the world.
If history is our biography; literature is our autobiography, containing the memory of our spirit, the reflections of our existence, the promise of what we can become: literature is our attempt to understand ourselves, to recover lost destinations, to preserve the thoughts and feelings and hopes too deep to utter. Giving us roots and meaning and direction, our literature is what we are: what we were, and what we can be.
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Linda Ty-Casper
A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories (Philippine American Literary House/PALH 2017 & UST Publishing House forthcoming)
Linda Ty-Casper is the author of 16 books that deal with Philippine events from the 18th century, the 1896 Philippine revolution, the Philippine-American War (1898-1902), World War II, on to the Martial Law years of the Marcos Dictatorship, and the post-Marcos days until the early 2000s, where her recent novella, A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories, leads us. So powerful are her writings that two of her historical novels (Fortress in the Plaza and Wings of Stone) were banned in the Philippines during the Marcos Dictatorship.
Ms. Casper’s awards include the SEA WRITE Award, UNESCO/P.E.N., Rockefeller (Bellagio), Radcliffe Fellowship, among others.
l-r: Kristina Casper-Denham and Cecilia Brainard showing off Linda Ty-Casper's new book, A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories
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Tags: #FilAm #FilAmBookFest #literature #poetry authors, writers, Philippine American, fiction, books, Asian American, Filipina
Read also:
Authors M. Evelina Galang & Rachelle Crus in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct. 7 & 8, 2017
Authors Giovanni Ortega & Janice Sapigao in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
Authors Renee Rutledge & Marie Deaconu-Baylon in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
Authors Randy Ribay & Eliza Victoria in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
Authors Giovanni Ortega & Janice Sapigao in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
Authors Renee Rutledge & Marie Deaconu-Baylon in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
Authors Randy Ribay & Eliza Victoria in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
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.
Monday, October 9, 2017
#Pictures Fourth Filipino American International Book Festival #FilBookFest2017
Here are some pictures taken at the Fourth Filipino American International Book Festival. I will continue to add pictures, so please check back. The picture above shows the authors who read in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading # 1-r: Prosy Delacruz Kristina Casper-Denham, Renee Macalino Rutledge, M.Evelina, Eliza Victoria, Cecilia Brainard, Myles Garcia, Mia Alvar, Veronica Montes, Brian Roley, Marie Deaconu-Baylon
HOT OFF THE PRESS Readers #2 L-r: Gemino H. Abad, Aileen Ibardaloza-Cassinetto, Merlinda Bobis, Barbara Jane Reyes, Robert Francis Flor, Cecilia Brainard, Eileen Tabios, Janice Sapigao
L-r: Mia Alvar, Edwin Lozada, Evelina Galang, Cecilia 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.
Friday, October 6, 2017
Guest Blogger: "WIFE" by Wanggo Gallaga #Fiction #Philippines
WIFE
By Wanggo
Gallaga
Copyright 2015 & 2017 by Wanggo Gallaga
This story was first published in Team (Issue 2, 2015) teammag.ph
Tacky.
Julia’s house is so tacky. It’s like they just randomly turned the pages of
three different interior design magazines and
pointed blindly at what they wanted. Julia never really had good taste.
She gets that from her dad’s side of the family. Our mothers had impeccable
taste. And class. How did Julia turn out the way she did?
Thank God
Adrian and I had left Florence for Lisbon during her European tour. Adrian
would hate her.
Would have.
Adrian would have hated her. Shit.
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, October 4, 2017
#Video Cecilia Brainard Talks on the Challenges of Writing in Panel Discussion 2017
This video clip of Cecilia Brainard was taken at the Panel Discussion titled, "Cute as a Filipino on a Saturday afternoon, May 20, 2017 at the LitFest in Pasadena, California. The panel was headed by Noel Alumit and held at the Walt Girnder Photo Studio and Gallery, 27 South Molina Ave. Pasadena, CA. Boni Alvarez, Angela Penaredondo and Chris Santiago were the other panelists. The title of the panel came from Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep."
This video is on YouTube.
Tags: #Philippines #FilAm creative writing, author, writers, How To write
Read also
Cecilia Brainard's Reaction to Alex Tizpn;s "A Slave in My Family"
#KababayanToday with G. Tongi and Writers Cecilia Brainard and Noel Alumit
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.
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Student Films Based on Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Many of my books and stories are used in classrooms. Some favorites are "Woman with Horns" and "Flip Gothic", used in the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, the University of San Carlos in Cebu, and the Cebu Normal University. I believe other schools use my stories in their curriculum, but these are the universities whose students have posted YouTube film clips. I invite you to watch them. The students have so much energy and creativity, it's a joy to watch.
Woman with Horns:Flip Gothic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDTrN7B7DAWhen the Rainbow Goddess Wept
Tags: Films, movies, Student films, YouTube, Philippines, Cebu, Ubec #studentfilmsRead also
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.
"Loving Vincent" Movie Review and Reflections by Cecilia Brainard
"Loving Vincent" Movie Review and Reflections
by Cecilia M. Brainard
There's a new movie out, Loving Vincent, by Breakthru Films and Trademark Films. It's reportedly the world's first fully painted feature film, with over 62,000 oil paintings used as frames for this animated movie. Watching the movie was a fascinating experience: I felt as if I entered the world of Vincent Van Gogh! (Be sure and watch the Trailer here.)
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.
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Schedule and #Authors Featured in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings, Oct 7-8, 2017, #FilAm Book Fest
Here are the Authors Featured in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings. Join us on Oct. 7 and 8 -- see schedule below. Click on the images to make them large.
This year, there will be three HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings at the Filipino American International Book Festival, which will be held at the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA 94102. The schedule follows:
The First HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading, moderated by Cecilia Brainard
Saturday, October 7, 2017, from 1:30-2:50 p.m.
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library:
Veronica Montes - Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories (Philippine American Literary House/PALH 2018)
Marie Deaconu-Baylon - North for Sun (2017)
Linda Ty-Casper - (Presenter is Kristina Casper-Denman) A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories(Philippine American Literary House/PALH 2017)
Brian Ascalon Roley - The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal (Curbstone Books 2016)
Eliza Victoria - Dwellers (Visprint 2014)
Renee Macalino Rutledge - The Hour of Daydreams (Forest Avenue Press 2017)
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard - The Newspaper Widow (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House 2017)
Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz - Even the Rainbow Has a Body: Distinct Artistic Legacies (Eastwind Books of Berkeley 2016)
M. Evelina Galang - Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living With War (Northwestern University Press 2017)
The Second HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading, moderated by Cecilia Brainard
Saturday, October 7, 2017, from 4:20-5:35 p.m.
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library:
Barbara Jane Reyes - Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books 2017)
Joseph O. Legaspi - Threshold (CavanKerry Press 2017)
Janice Sapigao - Like a Solid to a Shadow (Timeless, Infinite Light 2017)
Angela Peñaredondo - All Things Lose Thousands of Times (2016)
Eileen Tabios - Manhattan: An Archaelogy (Paloma Press 2017)
Robert Francis Flor - Alaskero Memories (Carayan Press 2016)
Aileen Cassinetto - The Art of Salamat (Locofo Chaps 2017)
Merlinda Bobis - Accidents of Composition (Spinifex 2017)
Wesley St. Jo, & Reme Grefalda - Blue (Paloma Press 2017)
Gemino Abad & Krip Yuson, Eds- (Presenter is Gemino Abad) -
BLOODLUST: Philippine Protest Poetry (From Marcos to Duterte) (Reyes Publishing 2017)
The Third HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading, moderated by Veronica Montes
Sunday, October 8, 2017, from 1:45-3:05 p.m.,
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library:
Tony Robles - Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike (Ithuriel's Spear Press 2017)
Rachelle Cruz - God's Will for Monsters (Inlandia 2017)
Amanda Ngoho Reavey - Marilyn (The Operating System 2015)
Randy Ribay - After the Shot Drops (HMH Books for Young Readers 2018)
Giovanni Ortega - Ang Gitano (2017)
Noelle Q. de Jesus - Blood Collected Stories (Ethos Books 2015)
Sansu Ramsey - Elizabeth Ramsey, Queen of Philippine Rock N' Roll (2017)
Merlinda Bobis - Locust Girl: A Lovesong (Spinifex Press 2015)
Constance Valencia Santos & Victoria Santos - (Presenter is Victoria Santos) - Memoirs of Manang: A Story of a Filipina American Pioneer (Eastwind Books of Berkeley 2015)
Mila De Guzman - Women Against Marcos: Stories of Filipino and Filipino American Women Who Fought a Dictator (Carayan Press 2016)
Raissa Robles - Marcos Martial Law: Never Again (Filipinos for a Better Philippines, Inc. 2016)
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Tags: #FilAm #FilAmBookFest #literature #poetry authors, writers, Philippine American, fiction, books, Asian American, literary readings, spoken word, poetry reading
Read also:
The Importance of Literature, by Linda Ty-Casper
Authors Mila De Guzman & Cecilia Brainard in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7-8, 2017
Authors Merlinda Bobis and Victoria Santos in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct. 7-8, 2017
Authors Sansu Ramsey & Amanda Reavey in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7-8, 2017
Authors Noelle de Jesus & Gemino Abad in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct. 7 & 8, 2017
Author Raissa Robles in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct. 7 & 8, 2017
Authors M. Evelina Galang & Rachelle Crus in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct. 7 & 8, 2017
Authors Giovanni Ortega & Janice Sapigao in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
Authors Renee Rutledge & Marie Deaconu-Baylon in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
Authors Randy Ribay & Eliza Victoria in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
The Importance of Literature, by Linda Ty-Casper
Authors Mila De Guzman & Cecilia Brainard in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7-8, 2017
Authors Merlinda Bobis and Victoria Santos in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct. 7-8, 2017
Authors Sansu Ramsey & Amanda Reavey in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7-8, 2017
Authors Noelle de Jesus & Gemino Abad in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct. 7 & 8, 2017
Author Raissa Robles in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct. 7 & 8, 2017
Authors M. Evelina Galang & Rachelle Crus in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct. 7 & 8, 2017
Authors Giovanni Ortega & Janice Sapigao in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
Authors Renee Rutledge & Marie Deaconu-Baylon in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
Authors Randy Ribay & Eliza Victoria in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7&8, 2107
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.
Mini-Reunion of Maryknoll Class 1968 in Toronto, Canada
My college class is having a mini-reunion in Toronto, Canada. I put together this collage of our graduation pictures, and I'm sharing random group pictures that include these women. (Click on the pictures to make them large.)
l-r: Becky Marfil, Tina Borja Heiter, Maria Navarro Ciocon, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Boots Besa Browne, Marissa Munda Tay
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, September 27, 2017
Finding God Through Mary, Personal Essay by Cecilia Brainard #religion #Catholic #Marian #Christianity #spirituality
I'm sharing my personal essay which was published in the book, Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters (Anvil 2009), edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard & Marily Orosa. The book won the prestigious Gintong Aklat Award for 2010.
The book is available from Anvil.com - http://www.anvilpublishing.com/shop/fiction-literature/finding-god/
Finding
God through Mary
Cecilia
Manguerra Brainard
I
am not sure when exactly I strayed from God because I had always turned to Him
even when I was a child. I remember how, after my father’s death I tried to
understand that I’d never see my father again, that he was now in heaven. My
concept of heaven then was fluffy clouds and a bearded old man as God, but I
had a difficult time seeing my father in that setting. Even though I didn’t know
where he went, I believed in the afterlife and hatched the idea of writing to
him to update him of my life.
His
death left my life in chaos: my mother, frantic about how to take care of her
four children; my siblings taking off to other countries to study. I turned to
the nuns in my school and to the Catholicism they taught me. The nuns’ rules
and Church’s rules helped give my life a framework. I did well in school; I
went to Mass and prayed. The prayers were childish: give me this, give me that,
a constant focus on I, me, and myself, not realizing I was a pinprick in the
universe.
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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