You can read the full list here [10 Quick Reads For When You’re Stuck in Traffic]. Thanks Spot.ph! And thanks as well to Anne Plaza for the tip.
Are you ready for this Saturday? I will be bringing this to give out to readers. (I mean, if they want them.) Thank you to Shani Tan of Aromateria for working on these beauties.
I will also be in UST on March 24 to read a short short story of mine:
UPDATE 3/24: I won’t be able to attend, unfortunately, but do drop by to listen to the other writers read their work.
In cooperation with the UST Literary Society, and as part of the upcoming AB Literature week, Anvil Publishing will be having a book launch, book reading, and book signing, of its latest collection of short short stories to go, edited by Noelle Q. de Jesus and Mookie Katigbak Lacuesta, the “Fast Food Fiction Delivery”.
Join us on March 24, 2015, Tuesday, from 3 PM to 6 PM, at the Tanghalang Teresita Quirino, G/F, Benavides building, UST, Manila.
When: March 21, 2015
Time: 9AM – 6:00PM
Where: Ground Floor St. Raymund’s Bldg., University of Santo Tomas in cooperation with the UST Literary Society
Open to the public!
No entrance fee!
9:30AM-11:00AM: Humor Writing Panel
Humor is more than jokes and slapstick. Truly memorable humor makes us laugh–and think about what’s so funny. Visprint writers and artists come together to discuss how to write and draw funny, where they get their ideas, and the secret to using media to tell good jokes.
11:00AM-12:00NN: Writer’s Lifestyle
Want to see your favorite Visprint writers participate in a game show? We do.
1:00PM-1:30PM: Spoken Word with Karl R. De Mesa
Listen to journalist, critic, and writer Karl R. De Mesa perform and sing poetry.
1:30PM-3:00PM: Reader’s Panel
Let’s talk about YOU. Visprint writers take to the mic to ask you their burning questions: what do YOU want to read; what do YOU look for in stories; what do YOU want more of? Help us out. Let’s talk.
3:00PM-4:30PM: Komik Talk
Listen in to Komikeros talk shop: their dream projects and the comics they want to make, stories in the pipeline, and their plans for 2015.
4:30PM-6:00PM: Publishing 101
One does not simply become an author. Seasoned writers and publishers reveal what they look for in manuscripts, how they pitch their stories, and what kind of readers they write for. We’ll even tell you How Not to Get Published.
6:00PM-6:30PM: Manix Abrera Kikomachine 11 Book Launch
Rakenrol!
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Concurrent exhibits:
Lost Covers
Visprint illustrators and artists exhibit book cover art in their earliest stages of production. Some of them never even made it to print.
Reading Nook
Without the distraction of cover art, would you read this book? We’ll give you the day to read our titles–but you won’t know which.
Mervin Malonzo has begun working on the art for After Lambana and posted a sample below. (This is a panel from the first pages of the book.) Exciting times.
Padre Burgos is a municipality in Quezon province named after Jose Burgos of the Gomburza. Such a tragic name origin, but the municipality itself is peaceful. Padre Burgos was formerly known as Laguimanok due to the shape of the coastline, which resembles a chicken’s beak. In fact, the town was getting ready for the Laguimanok festival the weekend we were there. (On the way home, we stopped to watch a group of children practicing the “chicken dance” inside a covered basketball court.)
We ended up in Padre Burgos because a colleague of mine has an uncle who owns a beach house, and the house was available for us to use for the month of February. I’ve never been to Quezon before, so I have no expectations. (All I knew was that we would be having tequila, which for me was a good enough reason to go.)
We hired a van to get to Padre Burgos, which is an hour or so away from Lucena. We visited two islands, Borawan and Dalampalitan. J and I and two other colleagues decided not to go to Puting Buhangin because it started to rain very hard and we were freezing our asses off. I did not plan for a rainy weekend at all. Philippine weather, you big weirdo!
Dalampalitan: pro, quieter, more affordable huts (PhP 200), no waves; con, because there was no current, it was pretty muddy, making it hard to swim. Look how serene the water is. We had these for lunch. I learned how to crack these crabs open out of necessity. (I know — I grew up in a fishing town and I never learned how to properly crack crabs.)
Photo from V.Photo from T.
Yung pose na parang pupunta lang ng office. We saw a bunch of tiny hermit crabs and some weird tentacle plant or animal thing. I don’t know what it is. Please enlighten me. Pine trees by the beach. Back to the house, shower, dinner, endless conversation, Patron tequila that seemed bottomless. A brief drama as I suddenly broke out in hives. Not sure what the trigger was. More tequila.
Photo from V.
The next day, the sun came out and we took a walk along the shoreline. Starfish! Somewhere in that landscape is the house. Oysters stuck to the rocks, glowing like gold coins. The walk back, then a bus ride home. We took a jeep (PhP 35) to Lucena Grand Terminal and got on a bus at 1 pm to Cubao (around PhP 200).
Eliza Victoria 