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Wonderer and wanderer in alternating, sometimes overlapping, bouts. Writer, nurturer, fabric hoarder.

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Lots to celebrate! 🎉

To thank all the emerging writers from my past novel writing classes who nominated me for the @uoftscs Excellence in Teaching Award & to celebrate my debut novel, KAY'S LUCKY COIN VARIETY, turning 10, I hosted a small get-together.

Because I teach online, it was the first time I got to meet most of my former learners in person! ❤️

A big thanks to everyone, including members from my mentoring group @writersintrees, who came out!

Read more:
https://annykchoi.com/2026/05/09/my-debut-novel-turned-10/

Special thanks to Grace & Claire for the photos! ❤️

🌙⭐

#AnnYKChoi
#KaysLuckyCoinVariety
#BookAnniversary

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Read the full piece by @macsanchez on gingersmoke.ca!

Grace Sanchez MacCall (she/her) is a founding member of the Eastwood Writers Collective in Toronto. Manila was home, then Calgary, then Vancouver before her move to Toronto where she now lives and writes.

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I had the honour of taking part in the Volume I Collection of Ginger and Smoke magazine in the company of such great and awe inspiring PilipinoX artists! Thank you @pilipinxpages for the oppurtunity, for the brave and beautiful space you create to give us voice and visibility ❤️🇵🇭👊🏽✊🏽

https://www.gingersmoke.ca/

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Just a few photos from our event last night at A Different Booklist. Turnout was great, food was great, with superb readings from every single one of our readers last night.

Thanks to @literasian for bringing us on board as part of this year’s festival, to @adfrntbooklist for hosting, to @titaflips for catering, to @cormorantbooks for making it all possible.

Next stop: Edmonton. Then Vancouver. Like I said, the Filipinos are taking over.

Photos courtesy of @msalic and @joselagman

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🎉 Join us this weekend for the Filipino Cultural Gathering and Symposium! 🇵🇭✨ @kwsentro

📅 Date: May 12
📍 Location: KW Sentro, Waterloo, Ontario (In-person & Virtual options available)
🎟️ Tickets: Available now!

Dive deep into critical issues impacting our community through discussions led by experts and community leaders.

Topics will include:

✨Intergenerational Language and Culture Loss

✨Parallel Histories of Colonization: Turtle Island & The Philippines

✨The Impact of Colonialism and White Supremacy on Filipino Mental and Physical Health

✨Paths to Mental and Structural Liberation from Oppression

✨Filipino Diasporic Dissent and Activism

✨Fostering BIPOC Solidarity to Challenge and Dismantle White Supremacy

✨Exploring Filipino-Canadian Diasporic Community Music Theory and Practice

We’re excited to announce a special program featuring our Magdaragat writers this Sunday!

Let’s support KW Sentro’s efforts in reconnecting us with our rich Filipino-Canadian music, language, and culture. See you there! 🌐📚🎶

#FilipinoCanadian #CulturalSymposium #KWsentro #Diaspora #CulturalHeritage #BIPOCSolidarity #Magdaragat

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Throwback to Wednesday, March 20 at @benmcnallybooks when our very own, Grace Sanchez MacCall (@macsanchez) and forty two other Filipino-Canadian writers had their fabulous
Book Launch for MAGDARAGAT: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing. Follow @magdaragat_anthology for all things #MagdaragatAnthology.

Congratulations to everyone involved in bringing this wonderful @cormorantbooks published
anthology to life!

And, outdoor-voice shout out to Grace Sanchez MacCall for her beautiful story, Wild West, (page 311).

The anthology is available at @benmcnallybooks and everywhere fine Canadian-published books are sold.

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In today’s instalment of Magdaragat Appetizers, Grace Sanchez MacCall reads from “Wild West”:

ALT TEXT: Author Grace Sanchez MacCall reading the following text:

“Our house is a gathering place for Filipinos each Sunday. My cousins, the ones born in Canada who cannot speak Tagalog, were part of the regulars plus the Innocente family who Dad met when he first arrived alone in Calgary in 1971 to work for an oil and gas company. We live closest to St. Mary’s so everyone just ends up here. There is always somebody new these days – from Winnipeg, from Toronto, from the Philippines – and when they find the Catholic church, they find us.

“The adults call each other Doctor and Attorney when they get together for these events even though we all know that Dr. Santos mops the floor at Foothills Hospital, and Attorney Villalobos is a security guard downtown. Dr. Santos saved my brother’s life, Mom said. My brother was holding his side in pain in his room one day and Doc took one look at him all bloated and feverish and drove him to emerg. The next Sunday, instead of the usual batch of garlicky pork adobo, we made Doc’s favourite: a fish relleno that took forever to prepare.”

MAGDARAGAT is coming out from @cormorantbooks in November.

cc: @macsanchez

#MagdaragatAnthology #MagdaragatAppetizers #Filipino #Filipinx #FilipinoCanadian #Diaspora #FilipinoDiaspora #FilipinoCanadianLiterature #CanadianLiterature #CanLit

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MacCall Family Portrait

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!! Lazy Daisy’s Café @lazydaisysto is open for business! Proud to say I was the first customer today. Staff were incredible. What a team!!!!! 🙏🏼🥇🏆🎖 I felt so safe and cared for. I won’t lie, I had a cry seeing the new layout, I miss the old Daisy’s of ‘the before days’, but I was so deeply moved by every effort to protect staff, food, the café and customers. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖Order your favourites and groceries here: https://lazydaisys.squarespace.com/

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Repost from @elizabeth_gilbert_writer using @RepostRegramApp - OK, this is my favorite picture from this entire book tour. This is a photograph of my response tonight, in London, when the moderator asked me how I feel about the romanticized idea that one must suffer in order to be creative. Just to be clear: the double fisted middle fingers that I spontaneously tossed into the air were not directed at the person asking the question. (She was lovely.) The middle fingers were directed at the IDEA that suffering and creativity are naturally linked. I’m so DONE with this idea. I’m so BORED by this tired old, played-out, life-destroying murderer of an idea (invented by pretentious, miserable Germanic, Calvinist, pain-loving men in the 19th century, by the way) that misery is the price you must pay in order to be an artist. It’s fucking bullshit. How did those guys take the most beautiful gift of humanity (imagination! a love of beauty!) and turn it into a death cult? Because they were grim, pleasure-fearing, scarcity-worshipping baby tyrants, that’s how — bless their dumb hearts. They were wrong. How many lives has this idea taken? How much Joy has this idea robbed? Truth is: Creativity is literally generative. It is literally healing. It is literally life-affirming. Creativity is literally a small scale, human-sized reproduction of the miracle of Creation itself. It is Gaia. It is renewal. It is the life force and the beauty urge. It is resurrection. It is grace. Creativity is how we connect, and how we delight ourselves, and how we process pain — not how we make our lives into an altar to misery. Creativity is play. It is not always easy, but that’s part of the wild adventure. Creativity is a gift from the divine that connects us to the source of all existence itself. It is holy. It is female. It is beautiful. Fuck those grim old men, and the thin-lipped, cold-hearted, distrustful, competitive, never-satisfied, never-grateful legacy they left behind. Go reclaim the natural gift of art. Go make something in this world— just for fun, for light, for grace, for sharing, for teaching, for loving. Yeah. That’s what’s what. I LOVE YOU. (And thank you, dear @tramanh2013,

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See that name: Alison Frost??!! We know her!!!
CONGRATULATIONS to Eastwood Writers Collective Member @alisoncfrost!!! We’re thrilled and so proud of you! 💐💐💐💐💐💐
#eastwoodwriters
#passthebubbly

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"Cut off any possibility except the thing you are committed to". ~ Tony Robbins

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