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Barnes imbues scenes from her interrupted childhood with an artistic touch that reads like literary fiction. Luminescent and shattering, Barnes’s first book is a triumph: a conquering of the past through the power of the written word.” —Booklist (starred review) “Stuck in a tangled web of betrayal, Barnes’s harrowing coming-of-age memoir reveals the strength we don’t know we have until we are forced to use it.” —SheReads “A young essayist’s memoir of her extraordinary riches-to-rags childhood in the Philippines…In this tender and eloquent tale, the author plumbs the depths of family dysfunction while telling a harrowing story of survival graced by moments of unexpected magic. A lyrically heartfelt memoir of resilience in the face of significant obstacles.” —Kirkus Reviews “We implore you to get your hands on this harrowing and triumphant coming-of-age story set in the Philippines.” —Hyphen Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1683137258639-FM1TP3WPF3XJ51V7PSCW/CinelleBarnesAuthorSmallVertical.jpg Home Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1683132488722-V5OUCHSOYXLARPXIXHOK/cinellesreading-32.jpg Home Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1683135387527-GBYUXLH014MQU4HDE9Q9/unsplash-image-EP6_VZhzXM8.jpg Home Page - I can walk you as far as I've walked myself. I've published a widely celebrated memoir, a breakthrough essay collection, and an acclaimed anthology. I’ve done the work of learning the many ways to write a really good book. I’ve also done the work of learning the many ways a person can learn and grow in their art. When asked, “What did the facilitator do well?” this is what a recent student said: 1. Pacing: no assumptions made about what we knew or didn't know, didn't rush and all activities felt well thought out and purposeful. 2. Visuals: really addressed different learning styles—everything felt possible. 3. Modeling: I've never done any of the suggestions she offered and it was so helpful to "see" what she meant. 4. She had additional resources to offer and was generous in sharing her publishing journey, encouraging us to ask her anything. No hoarding here. 5. She spoke and taught from her own experience and there was nothing self-serving about it. Her humility was refreshing. Very relatable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1683138103624-LQE1F9LIAVAQ4I3T82UE/image-asset.jpg Home Page Cinelle earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Converse College. Her writing has appeared or been featured in the New York Times, Longreads, Garden & Gun, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed Reader, Literary Hub, Hyphen, and CNN Philippines, among others. Her essay, “Carefree White Girls, Careful Brown Girls”, is anthologized in A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home (Catapult, 2020). Cinelle was a contributing editor, instructor, and writer at Catapult, and she served as a juror for the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Memoir. Cinelle’s work has received fellowships and grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, VONA, Kundiman, the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund, the Lowcountry Quarterly Arts Grant, and Capita. Her debut memoir was listed as a Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 by Bustle and nominated for the 2018 Reading Women Nonfiction Award. She is the 2021 Vulgar Geniuses Nonfiction Honorary Awardee for her writing and social justice work and 2021 writer-in-residence at Pasadena City College, and was a Focus Fellowship artist-in-residence at AIR Serenbe in 2020, a short-term writer-in-residence at City of Asylum in 2019, and the 2018-19 writer-in-residence at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, where she and her family live. In 2021, Cinelle was named one of 50 Most Influential by Charleston Business, joining thought leaders in state and local politics, the arts, academia, activism, healthcare, and business. She is currently at work on an immigrant travel memoir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57acda4dd2b857e385b26e7e/1470950800958-0X5EEF2KSKTH6XHR8K8U/Wired_Genius_Piece_6_McQuade.jpg Home Page This is the image caption — use this space to describe the image above https://www.cinellebarnes.com/hero-image-2 daily 0.75 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1525462302284-CV8QZBNJVE5OSDF0S6H1/CinellesReading-9.jpg Meet Cinelle Image | Cinelle Barnes Monsoon Mansion https://www.cinellebarnes.com/contact-banner daily 0.75 2018-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523497730817-OR7Q2ZM7DE97ZJWCL73K/Easter-57.jpg Contact Banner | Cinelle Barnes https://www.cinellebarnes.com/overview daily 0.75 2018-06-04 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/family daily 0.75 2018-06-20 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/monsoon-mansion-cover-page daily 0.75 2018-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1526308156268-F5ST7H4OBN9SAT4QSLH2/cinellesreading-32.JPG Cinelle + Anouk 3 Images | Cinelle Barnes https://www.cinellebarnes.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2018-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523472558078-7RFFFKMW4CB7VUO8R019/Lit+Hub+Logo.jpg Links to Essays | Cinelle Barnes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523472758707-CM60P80J6E5CJNYRUHR1/South+85+Journal.jpg Links to Essays | Cinelle Barnes https://www.cinellebarnes.com/new-page daily 0.75 2018-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523471492249-OLW3IM7DBKFZGD27FZKZ/Cinelle+Praise+3.jpg Praise and Reviews | Cinelle Barnes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523471079181-YSH7DNRAW8HS2W8YI39O/Cinelle+Praise+1.jpg Praise and Reviews | Cinelle Barnes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523471274937-XUPRW7Z9VU1G0W2Q0XVQ/Cinelle+Praise+2.jpg Praise and Reviews | Cinelle Barnes https://www.cinellebarnes.com/newsletter-sign-up daily 0.75 2018-04-18 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/book-tour daily 0.75 2018-05-14 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/new-page-4 daily 0.75 2018-04-12 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/essay-banner daily 0.75 2018-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523472332182-P9LKQPSO0I08DE6IKKDL/Cinelle-2.jpg Essay Banner | Cinelle Barnes https://www.cinellebarnes.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2018-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1527878232995-4I4HN9YUVDUMRIZEFMEJ/Shereads+logo.png News - Shereads.com SheReads.com recommends Monsoon Mansion's audio version, and says, "Stuck in a tangled web of betrayal, Barnes’s harrowing coming-of-age memoir reveals the strength we don’t know we have until we are forced to use it." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523471898366-FHWE6FB4DHF6IV0BT3SE/Monsoon+Mansion+Front+Cover.jpg News - Monsoon mansion Release May 1, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1526308795990-JOCLJM7LHXAU2T8H1K3C/AAWW.jpg News Asian American Writers Workshop names MONSOON MANSION as one of May 2018's must-read books by Asian American writers. See the feature here.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1527878584827-2DPC81QV4K5UVPN5KLE8/Charleston-Magazine.png News - after the flood Charleston Magazine features Monsoon Mansion in its June 2018 issue: "Lyrically written, the engrossing memoir reads like a novel, conveying heartache, but also lessons in strength." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1524062022849-6EA9N8LCE8U2ANSTYJV8/Charleston+City+Paper+Logo.jpg News - Charleston city paper Barnes' aptly titled debut memoir, Monsoon Mansion, is saturated in pain, trauma, and, at times, pure joy. This is Barnes' childhood in the Philippines — one she describes as both mesmerizing and horrifying. "It was hibiscus flowers one day, guns the next. And that was normal to me, I thought it was what everyone experienced." Read the entire article here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1525463327325-GKRXXRM6W4J52D71ER6B/Bustle+Monsoon+Mansion+Cinelle+Barnes+Logo.jpg News - Bustle In this gut-wrenching rags-to-riches story, author Cinelle Barnes recounts growing up in the shadow of her family's fall from grace in the Philippines, and what exactly it took to survive. Once a grand mansion, Cinelle's family home transformed into a dark and dangerous place after the monsoons came her mother's awful new lover took over what was once her father's domain. Despite repeated tragedy, trauma, and betrayal, though, Cinelle is able to conquer her circumstances and emerge a true survivor. Beautiful prose, evocative detail, and make the pages of Monsoon Mansion fly. Read the entire article here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1527877917360-3HSEUKY0FS8I436BA7OR/Pen_Box_tagline_lrg.jpg News - PEN | America PEN | America interviews Cinelle Barnes on the writer's identity, navigating truth, political resistance, and the writer's relationship with social media. Read the PEN Ten Interview here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1525463616543-2DWWBTXF31EKFVTVM0TF/Hello+Giggles+Logo+Monsoon+Mansion+Cinelle+Barnes.jpg News - hello giggles Cinelle Barnes grew up in Mansion Royale, a lavishly large home in the Philippines. But everything changed when a monsoon hit, wiping away her opulent possessions and taking her perfect family life along with it. If you enjoy memoirs that take you to a life, location, and world entirely different from your own, bump Monsoon Mansion to the top of your TBR list. Read the entire article here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1525465852606-0AJHQ0VC01L87KOJG2JA/Bustle+Monsoon+Mansion+Cinelle+Barnes+Logo.jpg News - Bustle Barnes hopes that Monsoon Mansion will provide some comfort to other survivors of childhood trauma. But she also hopes that the book builds empathy in people who don't have experience with abuse, poverty, or war. “I think it’s very, very important to take ourselves out of ourselves sometimes," she says. Read the entire article here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1525466184685-WES5W1CG23RPF1NM83NA/Charleston+City+Paper+Logo.jpg News - Charleston city paper An essayist and educator, Barnes grew up in the Philippines, experiencing both a luxury laden and trauma filled childhood. When the patina of security and comfort fades away and a monsoon wreaks havoc on her family life, Barnes must tap into her inner strength in order to survive. Read the entire article here. https://www.cinellebarnes.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2018-04-18 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/coming-soon daily 0.75 2018-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1526309576358-LFKYBVNVXA2N9SRVIIFT/IMG_6225+2.JPG Coming Soon | Cinelle Barnes https://www.cinellebarnes.com/copy-of-links-to-essays daily 0.75 2018-06-20 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/links-to-essays daily 0.75 2018-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523472558078-7RFFFKMW4CB7VUO8R019/Lit+Hub+Logo.jpg Copy of Links to Essays | Cinelle Barnes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1523992972967-ZEGCC7XZSJL8NV2Q98EG/BuzzFeed+Logo.jpg Copy of Links to Essays | Cinelle Barnes https://www.cinellebarnes.com/bio daily 0.75 2023-04-24 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/essays-1 daily 0.75 2022-05-05 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/books daily 0.75 2021-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1601568803061-FM04466UGDHJSGE4XLKQ/malaya-essays-book-cover.jpg Books - Malaya: Essays on Freedom (Little a, 2019) “A collection of essays extends and expands on the themes introduced in the author’s highly regarded memoir, Monsoon Mansion (2018). Barnes’s first book introduced a gifted writer with a compelling story about her life in the Philippines…A sturdy transitional volume that finds Barnes reflecting on her first and anticipating her next.” —Kirkus Reviews “Barnes’s stirring follow-up to her memoir, Monsoon Mansion…continues her life story by sharing her life in America while undocumented…Barnes’s story is unforgettable, and highly relevant to 2019 America.” —Publishers Weekly “Malaya, is a book on the uncompromising, unrelenting pursuit of a better life—to be free of fear and worries. These desires are universal. We are all immigrants in constant quest for freedom. Cinelle Barnes, Filipino American author, inspires with her endurance. But, like all stories, freedom is merely the beginning. For Barnes, life continues. This time, Barnes is ready. Her freedom empowers her.” —Positively Filipino “Malaya is Barnes’s literary path forward, and for the reader, it is literary delight. The essays reflect interwoven threads but each sings with a unique, and effective, style—there’s a playfulness of form and chronology that keeps the reader engaged. We are with Barnes when she’s scrubbing toilets and working in a laundromat; when she’s nannying for a Wall Street family; when she’s dodging INS at a hipster cafe in Harlem; when she’s navigating white privilege and racism with her in-laws in the Upstate. And in each setting, each essay, through each beautifully crafted line and deftly chosen image, we not only begin to understand her experience better, but our own.” —Charleston City Paper “Cinelle Barnes considers how the chaos and discipline of dance kept the disparate parts of her being stitched together.” —Longreads “The most effective pieces of Barnes’s collection render the ‘personal as political’ via sharp details and wide lens, such as the essay, ‘Genealogy,’ which opens with the family history (of white settlers and sons and daughters of the Confederacy) of Barnes’s husband and develops into Barnes’s interrogation of that history via her own personal history of first meeting, eventually marrying into, and forever changing this family. ‘Genealogy’ is demonstrative of the collection’s finest qualities and the power of the personal essay to refract the intersections of complex histories, our present moments, and our agency (or lack thereof) therein…” —International Examiner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1601569040708-XOIDDJY536B4WXHEABZO/a-measure-of-belonging-essay-book-cover.jpg Books - A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South “New and noteworthy: These essays — from Kiese Laymon, Toni Jensen and Aruni Kashyap, among others — challenge the idea of a monolithic Southern culture.” —New York Times Sunday Book Review "Sharp and witty, this collection shows that there are many different ways to live, breathe, thrive and be a person who belongs in the South." —Bookpage (starred review) "One of the things that makes this essay collection so powerful is its focus on the nuances of racism. We all know the KKK is racist, but what about that smiling white woman at the dinner party? In what ways does she undermine someone’s sense of belonging? What about microaggressions? That is the issue here." —Atlanta Journal-Constitution "The South on exhibit here does feel new: polygot, multiracial, small-c catholic, urbanized, unwilling to accomodate or overlook the past but instead primed to confront it head-on, and keen to sift the South's virtues—lovingly—from its flaws." —Garden & Gun "Cinelle Barnes has compiled the most diverse portrayal of the contemporary South I've read to date. These beautifully-written, clear-eyed essays present the American South through the eyes of its black and brown voices and expand the reader's view of belonging to or hailing from the region. I love this collection and its depictions complicate the South in ways that mainstream America sometimes refuses to believe about our ugly/beautiful South. A Measure of Belonging is a major contribution to the canon of Southern literature and each of the writers give of themselves fully. It is a book for our times. Welcome to the 21st century!" —Crystal Wilkinson, author of The Birds of Opulence "Totally engaging, this informing, thought-provoking collection is valuable for its vision of a South that is not monolithic."—Publishers Weekly "Across the collection, the writers push against the limits of what we think we know about the South." —Kirkus Reviews "The collective is an imaginative, colorful collage of narrative that paints a clear and nuanced picture of the contemporary south, delivered with humor, sass, and pride. Readers will walk away with a portrait of modern southern ideologies and the hope for a new approach to old constructs." —LaParis Hawkins, Booklist "A Measure of Belonging is a stark reminder that, behind the draping magnolias and weeping willows, the south has a loaded history, the effects of which still ripple through today’s society. Cinelle Barnes’ anthology is but one call to awareness, a call to artful rebellion." —NewPages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1551190726326-RJP4PCDAI6JFS7JJ7XTB/Monsoon+Mansion+Front+Cover.jpg Books - Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir (Little a, 2018) Booklist Starred Review, Bustle 25 Best Nonfiction Books of 2018, Marie Claire’s “16 Best Memoirs by Women,” Reading Women Nonfiction Award Nominee Video: Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir + Cinelle Barnes, Amazon Publishing "“Reminiscent of both Jeanette Walls’s memoir, The Glass Castle (2005), and Sandra Cisneros’s seminal novel The House on Mango Street (1984), this is a story of a tragic childhood told in a remarkably uplifting voice. Barnes imbues scenes from her interrupted childhood with an artistic touch that reads like literary fiction. Luminescent and shattering, Barnes’s first book is a triumph: a conquering of the past through the power of the written word.” —Booklist (starred review) “Stuck in a tangled web of betrayal, Barnes’s harrowing coming-of-age memoir reveals the strength we don’t know we have until we are forced to use it.” —SheReads “A young essayist’s memoir of her extraordinary riches-to-rags childhood in the Philippines…In this tender and eloquent tale, the author plumbs the depths of family dysfunction while telling a harrowing story of survival graced by moments of unexpected magic. A lyrically heartfelt memoir of resilience in the face of significant obstacles.” —Kirkus Reviews “We implore you to get your hands on this harrowing and triumphant coming-of-age story set in the Philippines.” —Hyphen Magazine https://www.cinellebarnes.com/press daily 0.75 2023-04-24 https://www.cinellebarnes.com/book-cinelle-for-a-lecture-workshop-reading-or-talk daily 0.75 2023-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5accc982b27e3910337f5ede/1621875014937-FYDRXK380HTFVW5Q40D4/Cinelle+talking+at+Monsoon+Mansion+launch.jpg Book Cinelle for a talk, workshop, reading, or consultation - Excellence and empathy. Cinelle speaks and teaches at virtual and in-person festivals, conferences, and academic programs year-round. Her most recent workshops, lectures, and seminars have been about the modern memoir, essay collections and anthologies, nonfiction publishing, and literary travel writing. She also specializes in coaching writers through the book writing and publishing processes, and is now taking clients for the fall 2023 - spring 2024 period. If you’re a writer inquiring about developmental editing, manuscript critiques, or literary consulting, please fill out this form. If you’re an editor or producer inquiring about assigned or commissioned work, please email literary agent Noah Ballard at nballard@vervetla.com. If you’re a school or writing program administrator, or event organizer, please use the event and teaching form below to inquire about 2023 to 2024 availabilities, rates, and offerings. https://www.cinellebarnes.com/editing daily 0.75 2023-04-24