Jhoanna Lynn Cruz in 2021 Hot Off the Press Literary Reading Oct. 9

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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2021 HOT OFF THE PRESS Lit­er­ary Read­ing, a pro­gram of the Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­val, and spon­sored by the San Fran­cis­co Pub­lic Library & PAWA, will go vir­tu­al this year, on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 9, 2021 Pacif­ic Time, from 5–6:30 p.m. The Zoom link will be announced, or check out the events sec­tion of sfpl.org lat­er on.

Get to know JHOANNA LYNN CRUZ, author of Abi Nako, Or So I Thought (UP 2020). Abi Nako is part-essay, con­fes­sion, part auto-detec­tive work, a leap of love and faith. It sings off the page, inti­mate, quest­ing, embed­ded in the local and the body. It gives us a way to live, make art, and dance.

Find Jhoan­na at twitter@jhoannalynncruz or Instagram@jhoannacruz2

PRESS RELEASE: https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2021/08/press-release-2021-hot-off-press.html

Eventbrite link:  https://tinyurl.com/24ucb88u

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