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A blog of Laotian American Writer Bryan Thao Worra and various guests discussing Lao American literature

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Booking Bryan Thao Worra

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May 1, 2023

50 Books Beside Me, 2023

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April 30, 2023April 30, 2023

The 2023 Rhysling Award Finalists

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April 27, 2023

Patreon Posts: January to April, 2023

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April 6, 2023

Presenting at SEA Lit Circle Writers Festival 7/23

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April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

Presenting at Gen Con 2023, 8/23

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April 6, 2023April 24, 2023

Presenting at Literary Bridges, 5/7/23

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March 29, 2023March 31, 2023

Remembering Operation Barrel Roll at 50

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December 23, 2022February 15, 2023

2022 in Review

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November 7, 2022March 27, 2023

Reflection: 6 Years as SFPA President

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About

Bryan Thao Worra is the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, a 40-year old international literary organization celebrating the poetry of the imaginative and the fantastic. A Lao American writer, he holds over 20 awards for his writing and community leadership including an NEA Fellowship in Literature and was a Cultural Olympian representing Laos during the 2012 London Summer Games. In 2009 he received an Asian Pacific American Leadership Award from the governor’s Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans.

He also holds a 2011 Youth Media Innovation Award from the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center and won the 2014 Elgin Award for Book of the Year from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. He has presented at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Loft Literary Center, Intermedia Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, the Institute for Contemporary Art, among many others, and recently as a Visiting Artist with University of Merced Center for the Humanities. He is the first Lao writer to be professional member of the Horror Writers Association and trained several years with Asian Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy on social justice during their National Gender Equity Campaign.

One of the co-founders of the National Lao American Writers Summit, he is the author of 6 books, with work appearing internationally in Australia, Canada, Scotland, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, and Pakistan.

You can support his work at: https://www.patreon.com/thaoworra

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