Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing (Cormorant Books) is the first anthology of Filipino-Canadian writing published by a mainstream press, coming out at a time when the Filipino diasporic population in Canada is fast approaching one million. Join Teodoro Alcuitas, Patria Rivera, and Leah Ranada as they read from their contributions to this landmark project.
Hybrid events are held in person, you will also be able to watch it live streamed from our Youtube channel.
Location: Room C485, UBC Robson Square
Type: Panel, Non-fiction
Moderator: C.E. Gatchalian
Readers: Teodoro Alcuitas | Patria Rivera | Leah Ranada
About The Moderator
Born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (“Vancouver”), currently dividing his time between “Vancouver” and Tkaronto (“Toronto”), C.E. Gatchalian is a Filipinx queer neurodivergent author, editor and playwright. The author of six books and co-editor of two anthologies, he was the 2013 recipient of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize and a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist. His memoir, Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty and the Making of a Brown Queer Man, was published in 2019 by Arsenal Pulp Press. He is a recipient of the one-time only British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Arts & Music Awards for his contributions to the arts in BC.
About The Readers
Teodoro 'Ted' Alcuitas is Editor & Publisher of PhilippineCanadianNews.Com, the first and only online newspaper linking the Filipino diaspora in Canada. A long-time community journalist that spans four decades starting when he started the first Filipino newspaper, 'Silangan' in western Canada in 1976.
Filipino-Canadian poet, writer, and editor Patria Rivera’s first poetry collection, Puti/White (Frontenac House Media, Calgary, Alberta, 2005), was shortlisted for the 2006 Canadian Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She has also published three other books of poetry, The Bride Anthology (Frontenac House Media, 2007), BE, (Signature Editions, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2011), and The Time Between (Signature Editions, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2018) as well as co-authored two chapbooks, Weathering: An Exchange of Poems (Silver Maple Press, 2008) and Sixth from the Sixth (2001). In Fall 2023, Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing, a book Rivera co-edited, will be released by Cormorant Books. Rivera’s poetry is featured in Oxford University Press’s Perspectives in Ideology, and in Elana Wolff's Implicate me: short essays on reading contemporary poems. Rivera has received fellowships from the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Hawthornden Castle International Writers’ Retreat Centre in Scotland. She was also a recipient of the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry. Born and raised in the Philippines, Rivera graduated with a journalism degree from the University of the Philippines.
Leah Ranada’s writing is informed by her childhood in Metro Manila and eventual move to Vancouver in 2006, where she made writing her permanent home. In 2013, she attended The Writer’s Studio (TWS) at SFU. She released her debut novel, The Cine Star Salon (NeWest Press), in 2021 and is very honoured to have her story included in Magdaragat - An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing (Cormorant Books, 2023). Leah’s works have also been published in On Spec, Room Magazine, Santa Ana River Review, and elsewhere.
