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Recap of Hot Off the Press Readings at #FilAmBookFest

October 15, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

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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Recap of recent Hot Off the Press Read­ings 5th Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­val -

The Hot Off the Press Lit­er­ary Read­ings at the recent Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­val were held last Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 12, 2019, at the Koret Audi­to­ri­um, San Fran­cis­co Main Library. Each read­ing show­cased up to 10 authors pro­mot­ing new books. In less than ten min­utes, they talk about or read from their books, giv­ing the audi­ence a sam­ple, so to speak, of their work.

The writ­ers trav­eled from the UK, the Philip­pines, Cana­da, Hawaii, and var­i­ous parts of the US to let know peo­ple about the fruits of their labor: writ­ings about food, about fam­i­lies, about grow­ing up, about fan­ta­sy worlds, about knowl­edge they had gleaned, about anger, pain, but also love.

Wal­ter Ang read from his his­to­ry of Fil­ipino Amer­i­can The­ater. Bet­ty Ann Quiri­no charmed the audi­ence with the courtship sto­ry of her par­ents that involved rice — this from her cook­book. Also about food, Jacque­line Chio-Lau­ri, who flew in from the UK, shared an excerpt from her The New Fil­ipino Kitchen anthology.

The poets delight­ed with their vers­es and pas­sion: Aileen Cassinet­to, Elmer Omar Bas­cos, Alfred Yuson, Arlene Biala, and Melin­da Luisa de Jesus. (Absent, but missed, was Leny Strobel.)

The fic­tion writ­ers read excerpts from their sto­ries: Cindy Fazzi, Crisel­da Yabes, Rin Chu­peco, Sarge Lacues­ta, Ric­co Siaso­co, Yves Lam­son, and yours tru­ly (Cecil­ia Brainard).

Grace Talu­san read from her mem­oir while Rick Rocamo­ra had his photobook.

As host and mod­er­a­tor of HOTP since 2011, I have to coor­di­nate the events with the writ­ers and in so doing have a clos­er look at their work and their char­ac­ter. (For exam­ple, you know who sub­mit infor­ma­tion prompt­ly or who don’t; you get to know who will respect the pro­gram guide­lines or who don’t.) To me most of these writ­ers are war­riors, the thinkers of our Fil­ipino and Fil­ipino Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ties. They are the ones who pre­serve our cul­ture and our stories.

A writer I knew, Emma Gee, gave advice to oth­er writ­ers: Don’t wipe your feet. Leave tracks.

I share this same advice to these writ­ers and oth­ers out there:
Don’t wipe your feet. Leave tracks.

This post is also in my trav­el blog:

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/…/recap-of-hot-off-press-rea…

This post has the bios of the par­tic­i­pants of the HOTP Readings:

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2019/08/hot-off-press-literary-readings-in-san.html

Tags: #Fil­Am­Book­fest #Fil­am­l­it­fest #lit­er­a­ture #authors #poets #goodreads #library­girl #pinoylit #Fil­ipino #Fil­ipinoAmer­i­can #Fil­am #books #writ­ers #authors #poet­ry #aca­d­e­mics

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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