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HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings, FilAm Book Festival, October 12–13, 2019

August 28, 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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Here are some Fil­ipino and Fil­ipino Amer­i­can authors who will be read­ing at the HOT OFF THE PRESS Lit­er­ary Read­ings at the Fifth Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­val in San Fran­cis­co, Octo­ber 12 and 13, 2019:

Ivy Alvarez, author of Dias­po­ra  Vol­ume L (Palo­ma Press, 2019

Ivy Alvarez is the author of verse nov­el Dis­tur­bance (Wales: Seren, 2013).

A Mac­Dow­ell Colony, and Hawthorn­den Fel­low, thrice-nom­i­nat­ed for a Push­cart Prize, both Lit­er­a­ture Wales and the Aus­tralia Coun­cil for the Arts award­ed her grants towards the writ­ing of Dis­tur­bance. Wide­ly-pub­lished and anthol­o­gised, her poet­ry also appears on a mobile app The Dis­ap­pear­ing, in Takahē, The Age / Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald, and Best Aus­tralian Poems (2009, 2013), with sev­er­al poems trans­lat­ed into Russ­ian, Span­ish, Japan­ese and Kore­an. Her poet­ry col­lec­tions include Mor­tal, Hol­ly­wood Star­let and The Every­day Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary. Her lat­est, Dias­po­ra: Vol­ume L, is avail­able from Palo­ma Press.

Wal­ter Ang, author of Barangay to Broad­way: Fil­ipino Amer­i­can The­ater History

Wal­ter Ang is the author of “Barangay to Broad­way: Fil­ipino Amer­i­can The­ater His­to­ry.” He cur­rent­ly cov­ers Fil­ipino Amer­i­can the­ater for news site Inquirer.net and was a con­tribut­ing writer for the The­ater Vol­ume for the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ency­clo­pe­dia of Philip­pine Art recent­ly pub­lished by the Cul­tur­al Cen­ter of the Philippines.

Before mov­ing to the US, he cov­ered the Mani­la the­ater indus­try for the news­pa­per Philip­pine Dai­ly Inquir­er. Ang was a juror for the Philstage orga­ni­za­tion’s Gawad Buhay the­ater awards from 2008 to 2009. He was a Fel­low at the 2009 Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Varsitarian‑J. Elizalde Navar­ro Nation­al Work­shop on Arts and Human­i­ties Crit­i­cism Writ­ing. Vis­it WordsOfWalter.blogspot.com

Wal­ter Ang’s Barangay to Broad­way: Fil­ipino Amer­i­can The­ater History 

fol­lows the events, groups, and indi­vid­u­als that have com­prised Fil­ipino Amer­i­can the­ater from 1898 to 2016. Mile­stones and high­lights include per­form­ers of the 1900s and 1910s, immi­grant com­mu­ni­ty pro­duc­tions of the 1920s and 1930s, all the way to the Broad­way per­form­ers of the 1950s.

Research and inter­views fol­low the the artists who were part of the sem­i­nal Fil­ipino Amer­i­can the­ater groups and pio­neer­ing Asian Amer­i­can the­ater com­pa­nies of the 1960s and 1970s. The book con­tin­ues with the estab­lish­ing of Fil­ipino Amer­i­can the­ater com­pa­nies in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Ma-Yi The­ater in New York, CIR­CA-Pintig in Chica­go, and Bindles­tiff Stu­dio in San Fran­cis­co. It also includes infor­ma­tion on Obie Award and Tony Award win­ners, as well as the emerg­ing groups and lead­ers of the 2000s and 2010s.

 

Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard, author of Please, San Anto­nio! & Melisande in Paris (PALH 2018); When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept (Philip­pine Edi­tion Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House 2019) 

Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard draws inspi­ra­tion from her birth city of Cebu, Philip­pines.  Her three nov­els and numer­ous sto­ries are often set in her myth­i­cal Ubec (Cebu back­wards).  Her first nov­el, When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept, in print for 28 years has been recent­ly reis­sued in the Philip­pines by the Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House.  Her offi­cial web­site is ceciliabrainard.com.

When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept (USTPH 2019) is a com­ing of age sto­ry of a young girl in the Philip­pines dur­ing World War Two.  It is pub­lished in the US by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan Press and in the Philip­pines by the UST Pub­lish­ing House.

Please, San Anto­nio! & Melisande in Paris (PALH 2018) col­lects two novel­las by Eve La Salle Caram and Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard. Cecilia’s sto­ry in this col­lec­tion focus­es on the back­sto­ry in Paris of French char­ac­ter who appears in her third nov­el, The News­pa­per Wid­ow.

 

Melin­da Luisa de Jesus, author of Pemi­nol­o­gy (Palo­ma Press, 2019) 

Melin­da Luisa de Jesús is Chair and Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Diver­si­ty Stud­ies at Cal­i­for­nia Col­lege of the Arts. She writes and teach­es about Filipinx/American cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion, girl cul­ture, mon­sters, and race/ethnicity in the Unit­ed States. She edit­ed Pinay Pow­er: Pem­i­nist Crit­i­cal The­o­ry, the first anthol­o­gy of Filipina/American Fem­i­nisms (Rout­ledge 2005). Her writ­ing has appeared in Moth­er­ing in East Asian Com­mu­ni­ties: Pol­i­tics and Prac­tices; Com­plete­ly Mixed Up: Mixed Her­itage Asian North Amer­i­can Writ­ing and Art; Approach­es to Teach­ing Mul­ti­cul­tur­al Comics; Eth­nic Lit­er­ary Tra­di­tions in Children’s Lit­er­a­ture; Chal­leng­ing Homo­pho­bia; Rad­i­cal Teacher; The Lion and the Uni­corn; Ano Ba Mag­a­zine; Rig­or­ous; Konch Mag­a­zine; Rab­bit and Rose; MELUS; Merid­i­ans; The Jour­nal of Asian Amer­i­can Stud­ies, and Delin­quents and Debu­tantes: Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Amer­i­can Girls’ Cul­tures. She is also a poet and her chap­books, Hump­ty Drumpfty and Oth­er Poems, Pet­ty Poet­ry for SCROTUS Girls’ with poems for Eliz­a­beth War­ren and Michelle Oba­ma, Defy­ing Trum­p­lan­dia, Adios Trum­p­lan­dia, James Brown’s Wig and Oth­er Poems, and Vagen­da of Mani­cide and Oth­er Poems were pub­lished by Loco­fo Chaps/Moria Poet­ry in 2017. Her first col­lec­tion of poet­ry, pemi­nol­o­gy, was recent­ly pub­lished by Palo­ma Press (March 2018). She is a mez­zo-sopra­no, a mom, an Aquar­i­an, and admits an obses­sion with Hel­lo Kit­ty. More info: http://peminist.com

 

Bet­ty Ann Quiri­no, author of Instant Fil­ipino Recipes Cook­book; My Moth­er’s Tra­di­tion­al Food in a Mul­ti­cook­er Pot (Amazon.com, 2018) 

Eliz­a­beth Ann Besa-Quiri­no, is an award-win­ning inter­na­tion­al jour­nal­ist and author of her most recent cook­book “Instant Fil­ipino Recipes: My Mother’s Tra­di­tion­al Philip­pine Food in a Mul­ti­cook­er Pot”. Oth­er cook­books she has writ­ten are: “My Mother’s Philip­pine Recipes” and “How To Cook Philip­pine Desserts, Cakes and Snacks”. Bet­ty Ann, as she is fond­ly called, was born in the Philip­pines and raised in Tar­lac province where her way of life was mold­ed ear­ly on by her par­ents’ farm­ing and agri­cul­tur­al busi­ness. From the time she was a lit­tle girl, Bet­ty Ann learned how to cook tra­di­tion­al Philip­pine dish­es from her moth­er and has trans­formed these culi­nary skills to mod­ern day Fil­ipino cook­ing in her Amer­i­can kitchen. Based in New Jer­sey, Bet­ty Ann is a mem­ber of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Culi­nary Pro­fes­sion­als (IACP-New York); the New York Women’s Culi­nary Alliance; the Asso­ci­a­tion of Culi­nary His­to­ri­ans of the Philip­pines, and blogs about Fil­ipino home cook­ing on her site AsianInAmericaMag.com.

 

Leny Stro­bel. author of Glimpses (Palo­ma Press, 2019) 

Leny Men­doza Stro­bel is Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Amer­i­can Mul­ti­cul­tur­al Stud­ies at Sono­ma State Uni­ver­si­ty. She is also one of the Found­ing Direc­tors of the Cen­ter for Babay­lan Stud­ies. Her books, jour­nal arti­cles, online media pres­ence reflect her decades-long study and reflec­tions on the process of decol­o­niza­tion and heal­ing of colo­nial trau­ma through the lens of indige­nous per­spec­tives. She is a grand­moth­er to Noah and she tends a gar­den and chick­ens with Cal in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia. More infor­ma­tion is avail­able at https://www.lenystrobel.com/.

Stay tuned for more announce­ments re the HOTP lit­er­ary Read­ings at the Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­val this October.

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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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