Met up with Filipino speculative fiction writer Joel Donato “Kupkeyk” Ching Jacob for lunch and attended his very interesting and informative talk “Locust Wings Take Flight: A Session on Character Creation” at the 15th Asian Festival of Children’s Content. With his permission, I incorporated his section on randomization in my lecture on writing Interactive Fiction at MOE’s Creative Arts Program the following week. BTW, I was really surprised to see copies of Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults (eds. Dean Francis Alfar and Kenneth G. Yu) at the Philippines’ country booth. I have a story in that anthology.
Lunch at a noodle bar in Bugis.
Kupkeyk talking about his wonderful YA book “Wing of the Locus” and it’s sequel, “Orphan Prince”.
Kupkeyk, myself and the lovely Claire Bettita de Guzman showing off a trio of Filipino speculative fiction books for young adults. I have a story in the science fiction volume that I am holding.
With Mary Ann Ordinario and her award-winning book, Bulol.
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo is the author of the International Rubery Book Award shortlisted The Infinite Library and Other Stories (Math Paper Press, 2017 ; US edition: Gaudy Boy, 2021) and Here be Dragons (Canvas Press, 2015), which won the Romeo Forbes Children’s Story Award in 2012. His play-by-email interactive fiction piece “The Book of Red Shadows” debuted at the Singapore Writers Festival in 2020.
His writing has appeared in many publications including Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Likhaan Journal, Strange Horizons, Philippines Graphic, Science Fiction World and The Quarterly Literature Review of Singapore, as well as anthologies like The Best New Singapore Short Stories, Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, the Philippine Speculative Fiction series and Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction.
He is a fellow at the Milford Science Fiction Writers’ Conference (UK) and the Cinemalaya Ricky Lee Film Scriptwriting Workshop, as well as a Jalan Besar writer-in-residence at Sing Lit Station (2020/2021).
Visit his blog at vrocampo.com
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The Infinite Library and Other Stories 