Mae Respicio in 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 MAE RESPICIO — Mae writes mid­dle grade nov­els full of hope and heart. She’s the author of THE HOUSE THAT LOU BUILT, which won an Asian/Pacific Amer­i­can Libraries Asso­ci­a­tion Hon­or award, was an NPR Best Book, and was named to many state read­ing and “best of” lists. Her most recent books are ANY DAY WITH YOU and HOW TO WIN A SLIME WAR (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House). Mae lives with her fam­i­ly in the sub­ur­ban wild of North­ern Cal­i­for­nia. Learn more at maerespicio.com.

Look for her book in East­wind Books of Berke­ley, among oth­er US bookstores.

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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