12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Opening remarks and keynote address by Erin Entrada Kelly

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Inkstorm 2: Authors Read Freshly Inked Works with Erina Alejo, Joi Barrios, Bren Bataclan, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Gideon Lasco, Reine Arcache Melvin, Lysley Tenorio, Angela Narciso Torres. Host: Edwin Lozada.

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Inkstorm 3: Authors Read Freshly Inked Works with Marianne Chan, Liza Gino, jxtheo, Alan Samson Manalo, Veronica Montes, Vicente Rafael, Lara Stapleton, Kenneth Tan. Host: Rashaan Alexis Meneses.

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Speaker: Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Benjamin Pimentel (See separate calendar entry to register for Zoom or YouTube)

Please visit the festival marketplace: Sunday from: 12:00 p.m to 5:15 p.m.

The 6th Filipino American International Book Festival will be taking place on October 15-16, 2022 at the San Francisco Public Library. Come celebrate our Filipino/a/x authors.
Presented by PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists) in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library, this year’s theme is Hiraya/Emergence: Writing towards the Future.
Hiraya is a Tagalog word for imagination, for dreaming, the emergence of the flower and the fruit. What does Hiraya mean to you?