First Sight of Snow and Other Stories

by Ian Rosales Casocot

This collection of stories from acclaimed writer Ian Rosales Casocot showcases his best two are winners from the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature while one won the 2007 FullyBooked/Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards. The stories illustrate a family with a father missing in action, a young girl’s quest to prove her love, a wife’s struggle with keeping a home and a family, and a man finding connections in a foreign land. The result is a map of Casocot’s writing success, guided by his masterful style.

73 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 29, 2015

About the author

Ian Rosales Casocot has won the Don Carlos Palanca Award, the NVM Gonzalez Prize, and the Fully-Booked/Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Award for his fiction. He was a fellow for fiction in the national writers’ workshops in Dumaguete, Baguio, Cebu, and Iligan, and was a writer-in-residence for the International Writing Program in the University of Iowa. His books include FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures, which was nominated as Best Anthology in the National Book Awards given by the Manila Critics Circle; Old Movies and Other Stories; and Heartbreak & Magic: Stories of Fantasy and Horror. His novel Sugar Land was long-listed in the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize. He lives in Dumaguete City.