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: • Author Interview with Daryl Lim Wei Jie (Singapore) at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature • Roundtable Discussion with Birhan Keskin & Öykü Tekten (Türkiye) at Asymptote Journal • Roundtable Discussion with Samer Abu Hawwash (Palestine) & Huda J Fakhreddine (Lebanon) at Asymptote Journal • Article (Women in Translation Month) at World Literature Today (University of Oklahoma) • 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 (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press) • 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)