Alton Melvar M Dapanas | Sam

Alton Melvar M Dapanas | Sam has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in April 2021. The social media accounts linked to from Alton Melvar M Dapanas | Sam are: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Amazon, X. Besides social media accounts, samdapanas has populated their site with Translated Cindy A. Velasquez at ‘An Anthology of Earth’ (Zürich/New York: Oreades Press), Q&A Interview with The Massachusetts Review (University of Massachusetts), Article (Books from 🇵🇭) at World Literature Today (University of Oklahoma), Prose Poem at Poetry Ireland Review (Ireland), Author Interview with Giancarlo Huapaya (Peru) at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Translated Cindy A. Velasquez at Two Thirds North (Stockholm University), Conversation with Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Singapore/France) at World Literature Today (University of Oklahoma), Translated Stefani J Alvarez-Brüggmann at PRISM (University of British Columbia), Conversation with Khairani Barokka (Indonesia) at Wasafiri (Queen Mary University of London), Translated Cindy A. Velasquez at Int’l Poetry Review (University of North Carolina), Author Interview with Niloufar Talebi (Iran) at Asymptote Journal, Sofija Popovska reviews ‘Towards a Theory on City Boys’ (Austria: TINT Journal), Cat Chong reviews ‘Towards a Theory on City Boys’ (Ireland: Mercurius Magazine), Author, ‘M of the Southern Downpours’ (Melbourne, Australia: Downingfield Press, 2024), Author, ‘Mourning Mebu’yan’ (Wales, UK: Atomic Bohemian, 2024), Author, ‘In the Name of the Body: Lyric Essays’ (Tkaronto, Canada: Wrong Publishing, 2023), Areeb Ahmad reviews ‘M of the Southern Downpours’ (New York: The Polis Project), Author, ‘Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems’ (England, UK: Newcomer Press, 2021), Reader, Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine (London: Pamenar Press, 29 Nov 2025), Signatory, Statement of Solidarity with Gaza (Literary Hub, 13 Nov 2023), Signatory, Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG, 26 Oct 2023), Signatory, Refusing Complicity in I*rael’s Literary Institutions (PalFest, 28 Oct 2024), Official Profile: Academia.edu, Official Author Page: Goodreads, Translated Stefani J Alvarez-Brüggmann at The Massachusetts Review (University of Massachusetts), Author Interview with Tina Makereti (Aotearoa New Zealand) at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Translated Cindy A. Velasquez at Modern Poetry in Translation (Queen’s College, University of Oxford), Roundtable Discussion with Yasmine Haj (Palestine) & Norah Alkharashi (Saudi Arabia) at Asymptote Journal, Translated Stefani J Alvarez-Brüggmann at Michigan Quarterly Review (University of Michigan), Author Interview with Christian Jil Benitez (Philippines) at Asymptote Journal, Translated Stefani J Alvarez-Brüggmann at Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation (University of Iowa), Literary Dispatch (October 2025): New Filipino Anthology for Palestine & Filipino-led Boycott of Frankfurter Buchmesse, Literary Dispatch (July 2025): Philippine zine community’s small Palestine library, Literary Dispatch (May 2025): Filipino Komikeros4Palestine Call for Frankfurter Buchmesse Boycott, Literary Dispatch (October 2024): The Philippines’ Shameful Role as 2025 Frankfurter Buchmesse Guest of Honour, Literary Dispatch (January 2024): Filipino Poetry Chapbook for Palestine, Translated Mosab Abu Toha’s Poem into Binisaya at Librarians & Archivists with Palestine, Author Interview with Ahmad Almallah (Palestine) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Najwa Juma (Palestine) at Asymptote Journal, Feature: Taylor Swift as Books (M of the Southern Downpours), Feature: Taylor Swift as Books (In the Name of the Body), Feature: Taylor Swift as Books (Towards a Theory on City Boys), Editor-at-Large at Asymptote Journal, Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature (London), Former Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor at Atlas & Alice Literary Magazine (Iowa), Former Editorial Reader at Creative Nonfiction magazine (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Anthology Contributor at ‘He, She, They, Us: Queer Poems’ (Macmillan UK), Anthology Contributor at ‘Infinite Constellations’ (University of Alabama Press & Fiction Collective 2), Translated Comedy Drama (English to Filipino) at BBC Radio 4 (Wales, UK), 2023 Pushcart Prize Nomination for Lyric Essay (Canada: Bell Press Books), 2024 Pushcart Prize Nomination for Lyric Essay (Canada: Wrong Publishing), Luka Lei Zhang translates Stefani J Alvarez-Brüggmann into Chinese for Goethe-Institut China & Social Practice Lab, Translated Short Prose by Stefani J Alvarez at World Literature Today (US: University of Oklahoma), Review of Josephine V Roque’s ‘How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar & Other Essays’ (Penguin Southeast Asia) at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature (England), Review of ‘River In An Ocean’ Anthology (Trace Press) at The Shanghai Literary Review (China), Critical Essay on Translating from the Early Modern Binisaya at Ancient Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation (US: University of Iowa), Anthology Contributor at ‘The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22’ (Singapore: Kitaab), Prose Poems at Paris Lit Up (France), Self-Translated Experimental Poetry (Binisaya to English) at Arc Poetry Magazine (Canada), Prose Poems at Mekong Review (Australia), Anthology Contributor at ‘Helialá: A Gathering of Words’ (Finnland-Institut, Once We Were Islands, & KONE Foundation), Contributor at SICK Magazine Issue 6 (USA orders), Contributor at SICK Magazine Issue 6 (UK & worldwide orders), Cindy Velasquez reads “Pusod” (translated into English by Alton Melvar M Dapanas) at Jill! Women+ in Translation Reading Series (New York), Stefani J Alvarez reads “Trans-Finity Diary” (translated into English by Alton Melvar M Dapanas) at Jill! Women+ in Translation Reading Series (New York), Featured at Sant Jordi USA Festival of Books (Chicago & New York), Experimental Poetry at Bæst: A Journal of Queer Forms & Affects (California), Prose Poem at Expanded Field Journal (The Netherlands: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Dep’t of Language, Literature, and Communication), Translated Poetry by Stefani J. Alvarez (Filipino to English) at Modern Poetry in Translation (England), Translated Cindy A. Velasquez for Channel Magazine (Ireland), Prose Poem at New Contrast Journal (South Africa), Critical Essay on Fernando A. Buyser at Asymptote Journal (Taiwan), Translated Stefani J Alvarez’s dagli (Filipino to English) at Tidskriften Astra (Finland), Translated Stefani J Alvarez’s Novella Chapter for Consequence Forum (Massachusetts/Nevada), Prose Poem (translated from English into Swedish by Hanna Urich Rorsman) at Tidskriften Astra (Finland), Prose Poem (with Chinese translation by editors) at Poetry Lab Shanghai (China), Contributor (Translated Stefani J Alvarez dagli from Filipino) at The White Review’s ‘Writing in Translation’ (London, UK), Author Interview with Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Puerto Rico/Borikén) at Smoke & Mold Journal, Author Interview with Kay Ulanday Barrett (Philippines/US) at Smoke & Mold Journal, Author Interview with Maria Stepanova (Russia) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (India) at Asymptote Journal, Roundtable Discussion with Inés Bellina (Peru), Alejandra C Quintana Arocho (Puerto Rico) & Anne Freeland (US) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Huda J Fakhreddine (Lebanon/Palestine) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Maria Borio (Italy) at Asymptote Journal, Roundtable Discussion with Gilbert Ahnee & Ariel Saramandi (Mauritius) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Mario Aquilina (Malta) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Hiromitsu Koiso (Japan) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Liberia) at Asymptote Journal, Roundtable Discussion with Li Zi Shu & YZ Chin (Malaysia) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Yogesh Maitreya (India) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Wen-chi Li (Taiwan) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Rebecca Kosick (Brazil/UK) at Asymptote Journal, Roundtable Discussion with Seo Jung Hak and Megan Sungyoon (South Korea) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Nedra Rodrigo (Tamil Eelam/Sri Lanka) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Afrizal Malna (Indonesia) at Asymptote, Author Interview with Mayada Ibrahim (Sudan) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Oisín Breen (Ireland) at Asymptote Journal, Roundtable Discussion with Irizelma Robles & Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Puerto Rico) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Nuzhat Abbas (Tanzania) at Asymptote Journal, Roundtable Discussion with Ian Haight and T’aeyong Hŏ (Korea) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Larissa Kyzer (Iceland) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Rita M Palacios (Guatemala) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Fiona Sze-Lorrain (France/Singapore) at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Author Interview with Louisa Adjoa Parker (UK/Ghana) at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Author Interview with Lavinia Spalding (Editor, The Best Women’s Travel Writing) at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Author Interview with Samira Negrouche (Algeria) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Megumi Moriyama (Japan) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Luka Lei Zhang (Macau) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Sandra Tamele (Mozambique) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Kayvan Tahmasebian (Iran) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Judith Santopietro (Mexico) at Asymptote Journal, Roundtable Discussion with Ye Lijun (China) and Fiona Sze-Lorrain (France) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Leeladhar Jagoori (India) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Ilana Luna (Mexico) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek (Uganda) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Rima Rantisi (Lebanon) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Carla Bessa (Germany/Brazil) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Autumn Richardson (UK/Canada) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Khairani Barokka (Indonesia) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Elton Uliana (Brazil/UK) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Mai Serhan (Egypt/Palestine) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Pitambar Naik (India) at Asymptote Journal, Author Interview with Jerome Herrera (Philippines) at Asymptote Journal, Anthology Contributor at ‘Framework of the Human Body’ (Canada: Bell Press Books), Anthology Contributor at ‘Rituals’ (Canada: Bell Press Books), Translated Short Prose by Stefani J. Alvarez (Filipino to English) at 128 LIT (New York), Craft Essay on Speculative Poetry at Canthius (Canada), Experimental Poem at Open Fruit Magazine (Santa Barbara City College - California, Creative Writing Programme), Translated Stefani J Alvarez’s Dagli at Smoke & Mold’s Trans Writers in Translation Folio (US), Anthology Contributor at ‘Asian Workers Stories’ (ed. Luka Lei Zhang, New York: Hard Ball Press), Author Interview with Moncho Ollin Alvarado at Smoke & Mold (Portland, Oregon), Anthology Contributor at “In Between Spaces: Anthology of Disabled Writers” (Virginia, US: Stillhouse Press), Book Review of ‘Violent Phenomena’ (Tilted Axis Press) at The Shanghai Literary Review (China), Book Review of Arundhati Roy’s essay collection at TINT Journal (Austria), Author Interview with Therese Estacion on Crip Poetics, Fil-Canadian Literature, and Speculative Poetry at TINT Journal (Austria, Book review of Xu Xi’s essay collection at TINT Journal (Austria), Author Interview with Shawn Hoo on Ecopoetry and Singaporean Queer Writings at TINT Journal (Austria), Prose Poems at Two-Thirds North (Sweden: Stockholm University - Dep’t of English), Anthology Contributor at ‘I <3 the Aughties: A 2000s Tribute’ (New York: ELJ Editions), Author Interview with Masande Ntshanga on Post-Apartheid Literature and South African Publishing at Tint Journal (Austria), Translated Riddles from Folklore (Binisaya to English) at Reliquiae: Journal of Nature, Landscape, and Mythology (Scotland), Translated Poems by Cindy A. Velasquez (Binisayâ to English) at Asymptote Journal (Taiwan), Translated Poem by Fernando A. Buyser (Binisayâ to English) at AzonaL: Poetry in Translation (US), Anthology Contributor at ‘Our Stories to Tell: Essays on Mental Health’ (Texas: Folkways Press), Anthology Contributor at ‘Masturbatory Reader’ (London: Sticky Fingers Publishing), Prose Poem at The Shallow Tales Review (Nigeria), Translated Short Prose by Stefani J. Alvarez (Filipino to English) at Rusted Radishes Journal (Lebanon: American University of Beirut - Dep’t of English), Author Interview with Nzube Nlebedim on Nigerian Fiction, Queer Afrophone Writings, and the Future of African Literary Magazines at TINT Journal (Austria), Anthology Contributor at ‘The Sun Isn’t Out Long Enough: Queer Experiences Across Borders’ (England: Anamot Press), Translated Short Prose by Stefani J. Alvarez (Filipino to English) at Asymptote Journal (Taiwan), Book Review of Shuntarō Tanikawa’s Poetry translated by Takako U Lento at Tokyo Poetry Journal (Japan), Contributor (Translated Stefani J Alvarez’s dagli from Filipino) at ’Oxford Anthology of Translation: Volume I’ (England, June 2022), Contributor (Translated Cindy A Velasquez’s balak from Binisaya) to ‘Oxford Anthology of Translation: Volume II’ (England, May 2023), Translated Short Prose by Stefani J. Alvarez (Filipino to English) at Tolka Journal (Ireland), Speculative Poetry at Reliquiae: Journal of Nature, Landscape, and Mythology (Scotland), Speculative Poetry at Canthius (Canada), Panel Discussant at 2018 Taboan: Philippine Writers Festival (National Commission for Culture & the Arts), Prose Poem at Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (Hong Kong), Prose Poems at Punk Noir Magazine (UK), Anthology Contributor at ‘Now I Know, Daylight Responses to Untitled No 1 (1981) by Agnes Martin’ (England: Pilot Press), Anthology Contributor at Away With Words - Volume 4 (England: Toothgrinder Press), Prose Poem at Sine Theta Magazine (China), Prose Poem at Wicked Gay Ways (Philadelphia), Prose Poem at Elsewhere: A Journal of Place (Germany), Prose Poem at Northern Otter Journal (Canada), Lyric Essay at No Contact Magazine (New York), Prose Poem at 433 Magazine (New York), Anthology Contributor at ‘Mindanao Harvest 4: A 21st Century Literary Anthology’ (Manila: FEU Publishing House), Anthology Contributor at ‘Tinubdan: New Voices from Northern Mindanao’ (Cagayan de Oro: XU Press).