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Laomagination

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

March 24, 2018

Coming To Comicpalooza, 2018: Houston, TX 5/25-27

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March 24, 2018

Poem: Viewpoints

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March 24, 2018April 3, 2018

One World, Many Voices: Minneapolis, June 9th

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March 24, 2018

#Blessed comes to Philadelphia May 12th

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March 24, 2018March 24, 2018

Fresh Off The Starship: Diasporic Asian Narratives 5/12 in San Francisco

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March 20, 2018

“What’s a Clone’s Favorite Letter?”

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February 6, 2018February 10, 2018

51 MN Writers/Artists Grant Opportunities, 2018-2019 (Deadlines Subject to Change)

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February 4, 2018

Mapping Fantastic Southeast Asia

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February 4, 2018February 5, 2018

Poets sought for Robot Poetry Rumble at Marscon 2018!

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About

Bryan Thao Worra is the president of the Science Fiction and FantasyPoetry 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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