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

December 6, 2021

The Dream Highway of Ms. Mannivongsa text adventure free online

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December 6, 2021

12/20 Grant Writing for Artists with Disabilities

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November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

29 Asian American History Timelines as of 2021

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October 31, 2021

“Zombuddha” read in Pennsylvania

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October 21, 2021

War of Whispers coming in November

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October 12, 2021

Going to Teslacon 2021

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October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

Midwest Sci Fi Short Film Festival 2021: October 23rd

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September 23, 2021

Guest Presenting At BIPOC WRITING PARTY 9/27

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September 14, 2021

Reading at Eat My Words, 9/30

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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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