The organizers acknowledge that they will be live-streaming this event from the unceded, unsurrendered ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
A reading featuring literary talent from Metro Vancouver's Filipinx diasporic community as part of Filipino Heritage Month. The reading will take place the evening of Friday, June 12th, which is Philippine Independence Day. The event is FREE and taking place online, via Zoom (details to come).
The featured authors are:
Hari Alluri
Hari Alluri is an award-winning poet and author of The Flayed City (Kaya) whose work appears recently in The Capilano Review, Poetry, and The Puritan.
https://kaya.com/books/the-flayed-city/
Karla Comanda
Nathalie De Los Santos
Nathalie De Los Santos is a digital designer, producer of the podcast Titas N’ Tomes, foodie for Gastrofork, and wrote video game articles for Vancouver Observer. She writes SFF novels.
http://titasntomes.libsyn.com/
C.E. Gatchalian
C.E. Gatchalian is the author of six books and co-editor of two anthologies. His memoir Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man (2019), is available from Arsenal Pulp Press.
https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/D/Double-Melancholy
https://twitter.com/CEGatchalian
https://www.facebook.com/CEGatchalian/
https://www.instagram.com/ce_gatchalian/
Kawika Guillermo
Kawika Guillermo wrote the novels Stamped: an anti-travel novel (2018) and All Flowers Bloom (2020), and is the current Editor-in-Chief of decomP Magazine.
kawikaguillermo.com
https://westphaliapress.org/2020/01/06/all-flowers-bloom/
P Milisande
P. Milisande is Melissa Briones, a lawyer licensed to practice law in British Columbia and the Philippines and was the former editor-in-chief of a news publication.
https://www.amazon.com/As-Above-So-Below-Atlantis-ebook/dp/B01F0A6QNEhttp://www.youwanttoberich.com/2016/11/18/so-you-wrote-a-book/
Jade Santos
Vincent Ternida
During this quarantine, author Vincent Ternida has been focusing on reviews of books and opinions about video games while working on his next long form piece.
https://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2020/03/cold-snap-secrets-and-omissions
https://www.firstpageliterature.com/index.php/issues/4/
https://onemoregame.ph/confessions-of-a-trophy-and-achievement-hunter/
Hosted by Philippine Canadian News.com
Community partners: Tulayan - Bridging the Filipino Diaspora, NPC3
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Vancouver Foundation Neighbourhood Small Grants program.
Filipinx are the fastest growing ethnic group in Canada, and Vancouver's Filipinx community is one of the largest in Canada. There's a wealth of Filipinx literary and artistic talent here, talent that is being recognized nationally and internationally. Please join us as we foreground the voices and stories of our community.