Press Release — 2021 Hot Off the Press Literary Reading — October 9, 2021

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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PRESS RELEASE

San Fran­cis­co Pub­lic Library (sfpl.org)

Philip­pine Amer­i­can Writ­ers and Artists (pawainc.com)

NINE FILIPINO & FILAM AUTHORS IN OCTOBER LITERARY READING 

The Hot Off the Press (HOTP) Lit­er­ary Read­ing, a pro­gram of the Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­val, will be via Zoom this 2021. The event, spon­sored by the San Fran­cis­co Pub­lic Library and Philip­pine Amer­i­can Writ­ers and Artists (PAWA) will be held on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 9, 2021, 5–6:30 p.m. PT.

Host­ed and Mod­er­at­ed by author Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard, Hot Off the Press Lit­er­ary Read­ings have been show­cas­ing Fil­ipino and Fil­Am authors and their new books since 2011.

This year’s HOTP Lit­er­ary Read­ing includes nine Fil­ipino and Fil­ipino Amer­i­can authors: Gina Apos­tol, Jhoan­na Lynn Cruz, Geroge Gon­za­ga Deoso, Car­o­line Sy Hau, Mae Respi­cio, Randy Rib­ay, Bri­an Ascalon Roley, Ric­co Siaso­co, and Lara Stapleton.

Gina Apos­tol is the author of crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed nov­els The Rev­o­lu­tion of Ray­mun­do Mata, Bib­li­olep­sy, Insur­rec­to, and Gun Deal­ers’ Daugh­ter. Her essays and sto­ries have appeared in The New York Times, Los Ange­les Review of Books, For­eign Pol­i­cy, Get­tys­burg Review, Mass­a­chu­setts Review, and others.

Jhoan­na Lynn B. Cruz is the author of the mem­oir, Abi Nako, Or So I Thought, which is about her start­ing her life over in Davao City as a les­bian writer. Her writ­ings and edit­ed works include: Women Lov­ing. Sto­ries and a Play, Women on Fire, and Tin­gle Anthol­o­gy of Pinay Les­bian Writ­ing. She is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the Philip­pines Mindanao.

George Gon­za­ga Deoso is the author of The Horseman’s Revolt and Oth­er Hor­rors, a col­lec­tion of dark short sto­ries. His fic­tion, poet­ry, and essays had appeared in Liway­way Mag­a­zine, Philip­pine Panora­ma, Philip­pines Graph­ic, Philip­pine Dai­ly Inquir­er, and the Sun­day Times Mag­a­zine, among oth­ers. He was a fel­low for poet­ry in the Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas, Iyas, and Sil­li­man nation­al writ­ers workshop.

Car­o­line S. Hau is Pro­fes­sor at the Cen­ter for South­east Asian Stud­ies, Kyoto Uni­ver­si­ty, Japan. She obtained her BA degree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the Philip­pines and her MA and PhD from Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty. She recent­ly received the Grant Good­man Prize in His­tor­i­cal Stud­ies from the Philip­pine Stud­ies Group of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Asian Stud­ies. The nov­el, Tiem­po Muer­to, is her debut novel.

Mae Respi­cio writes mid­dle grade nov­els, includ­ing The House that Lou Built; Any Day With You; and How to Win a Slime War, all  from Ran­dom House/Wendy Lamb Books. She lives with her fam­i­ly in the sub­ur­ban wild of North­ern California.

Randy Rib­ay is the author of An Infi­nite Num­ber of Par­al­lel Uni­vers­es, After the Shot Drops, and, most recent­ly, Patron Saints of Noth­ing—which received five starred reviews, was select­ed as a Free­man Book Award win­ner, and was a final­ist for the Nation­al Book Award, LA Times Book Prize, Walden Book Award, Edgar Award, Inter­na­tion­al Thriller Writ­ers Award, and the UK’s CILIP Carnegie Medal.

Bri­an Ascalon Roley has received fel­low­ships and awards from the Nation­al Endow­ment of the Arts (2020 Lit­er­a­ture Fel­low); Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge, Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty, the Ohio Arts Coun­cil, the Djeras­si Foun­da­tion, Rag­dale, and the VCCA, among oth­ers. His books include Amer­i­can Son: a Nov­el; The Last Mis­tress of Jose Rizal, and the award-win­ning chap­book, Ambus­cade.

Ric­co Vil­lanue­va Siaso­co has received fel­low­ships from The Cen­ter for Fic­tion, Lamb­da Lit­er­ary, and the Nation­al Endow­ment for the Human­i­ties. He lives in San Fran­cis­co where he is a Grade Dean at the Urban School of San Fran­cis­co. The Foley Artist is his first book of sto­ries; it was award­ed Hon­or­able Men­tion in the 2021 Asian Amer­i­can Stud­ies Book Award.

Lara Sta­ple­ton is the author of The Low­est Blue Flame Before Noth­ing and The Ruin of Every­thing. Her work has appeared in The LA Review of Books, Poets and Writ­ers, The Brook­lyn Rail, Ms., Glim­mer Train, The Indi­ana Review, among oth­ers. She received a Lud­wig Vogel­stein Foun­da­tion Grant for writ­ers. She was a two-time win­ner of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan’s Hop­wood Award for fic­tion. She was also the win­ner of the Colum­bia Jour­nal fic­tion prize.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please con­tact the San Fran­cis­co Pub­lic Library (sfpl.org) or Philip­pine Amer­i­can Writ­ers and Artists (pawainc.com).

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