Thanks again to Lian Connect and the British Fantasy Society for inviting me to participate in this wonderful festival. Here’s a screen shot from the event:
Please join us tomorrow, Sept 22, 2024, from 11:00am to 4:30 pm BST, for ๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ: ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ, an online Zoom conference with Lian Connect in partnership with the British Fantasy Society, in honour of ESEA Heritage Month.
Join Xueting Christine Ni (โSinophagiaโ, โSinopticonโ), illustrator Sinjin Li, P.H. Low (โThese Deathless Shoresโ), and myself with Elaine Chiew (moderator) as we explore if an “East South East Asian speculative fiction aesthetic” exists — or if can one even be defined.
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 Childrenโs Story Award in 2012. His play-by-email interactive fiction piece โThe Book of Red Shadowsโ 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 Writersโ 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 