Via Asia Writes: Deadline: 30 June 2012 “Cleansing and Renewal” is the theme of ANI 37, the 2012 edition of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ literary yearbook. CCP Literary Arts Division is now accepting poetry, short fiction and essays in Filipino, English and other Philippine languages (with translation in Filipino or English) tackling the topic “What [...]
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Meet Dr. E.J. R. David at the 17th Annual Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance Conference (NWFASA)
March 9th, 2012 by Fil-Am Ako
Our good friend and author of Filipino-/American Postcolonial Psychology Dr. E.J. R. David will be at the University of Washington on April 20-22 to present about “Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology” as part of the 17th Annual Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance Conference (NWFASA). If you are in the area around that time, please check it out. The NWFASA [...]
KALAYAAN Comics Now Available in English
March 9th, 2012 by Fil-Am Ako
Filipino superhero Kalayaan’s comics are now available in English? Nerdgasm! That’s what I said when Kalayaan (Freedom) creator Gio Paredes contacted me a few days ago to let me know that his popular Filipino superhero would be available to English speaking fans. I guess my first post on Kalayaan gave somewhat of an impact on [...]
Book Launching of From Pancho to Pacquiao by Jay Gonzales & Angelo Merino on March 31st
March 9th, 2012 by Fil-Am Ako
Saturday, March 31, 2012 1:00pm until 2:00pm Bayanihan Community Center, 1010 Mission St. San Francisco, CA. To all boxing aficionados please save the date and stay tuned for more details. From Pancho to Pacquiao: Philippine Boxing In and Out of the Ring is a snapshot of more than a century of Philippine boxing. It is [...]
New Spring 2012 Issue of The Asian American Literary Review on “Generations”
March 8th, 2012 by Fil-Am Ako
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW RELEASES NEW SPRING 2012 ISSUE ON “GENERATIONS” When: Mar 3, 2012 “Are there any continuities,” wonders scholar Min Hyoung Song, “between the earlier generation of writers which first raised the banner of an Asian American literature and a later generation of writers which inherited it?” This is the question AALR’s Spring 2012 [...]
Book Recommendations: Out of Cebu by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
February 21st, 2012 by Fil-Am Ako
“Out of Cebu” is a book written by critically acclaimed U.S.-based writer Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard and published by USC Press. The book collects 28 essays about the author’s Cebuano ties, including colorful accounts about her mother’s family, the Cuencos, a prominent political family in Cebu. The book also includes writings about the author’s life and travels [...]
Super Bowl Food and Diversifying Consumer Demographics Marketing
February 20th, 2012 by Guest Writer
by Daniel Escurel Occeño The family-size to go of Lasagna at Greenwich Pizza (delivered) for Super Bowl food. People wondered why I promoted the lasagna at Greenwich Pizza when the fast-food restaurant has so many choices of pizza topping ideas and the company tries to be competitive. My cousin knows the founder of Jollibee Foods personally [...]
Call for Submissions to Kuwento for Lost Things
August 16th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
Just got word on this new anthology for Philippine mythology called Kuwento for Lost Things. You can send your literary or visual works in for their reading period from August 15, 2011-January 15, 2012. Submission Guidelines: Electronic submissions only, please. For literature submissions, please visit here to submit. Poetry: 3–7 poems. Fiction and Non-Fiction: 10–15 pages, double-spaced in [...]
Book Recommendations: Vanishing Filipino Americans – The Bridge Generation
July 9th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
In his second book Vanishing Filipino Americans: the Bridge Generation, Peter Jamero documents the experiences and contributions of second generation Filipino-Americans in hopes to address a significant void in the history of Filipinos in America. The population of Filipinos in the United States today is estimated to exceed two million, second only to Chinese among Asian [...]