TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Writing Workshop for St. Theresa's College Alumnae in Southern California

Monday, April 27, 2015

Writing Workshop for St. Theresa's College Alumnae in Southern California

l-r: Edna Consing Concepcion, Marily Orosa, Cecilia Brainard, Lucila Dypiangco

I conducted a Creative Writing Workshop for some graduates of St. Theresa's College at Lucila Dypiangco's home last Sunday afternoon. A group of around two dozen were there to learn some elements of creative writing.

I attended St. Theresa's College from kindergarten through high school, and so it was with great pleasure to work with this group. Lucila Dypiangco, an STC alumna as well as teacher, opened up her home for the workshop. My friend, Marily Orosa, had asked me to teach the ladies to help them write personal essays for an anthology that Marily's Studio 5 will be publishing.

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Tags: St. Theresa's College, STC, alumna, graduates, Ssouthern Califonria, Los Angeles
This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.