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5 alumni and 13 fellows to 20th Iligan Workshop

Posted on : May 02, 2013

The 淘料视频 (MSU-IIT) and the National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) announce the selection of 18 writing fellows to the 20th year of the Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW).

In celebration of this milestone, the Iligan workshop invited five workshop alumni for a discussion of their works-in-progress and their creative processes at the same time they will give back to the workshop by mentoring young writers after the regular workshop hours. The fellows are:

LUZON: Play: Dominique Beatrice T. La Victoria (English), Ateneo de Manila University/Quezon City; Fiction: Laurence F. Roxas (English) UPDiliman/Pasig City; Poetry: Ma. Amparo N. Warren (English),UPDiliman/Pasig City; Louise Vincent B. Amante (Filipino) UPDiliman/Quezon City.

INWW Alumni: Fiction: Susan Claire Agbayani (Filipino), Miriam College/Quezon City.

VISAYAS: Fiction: Nikos H. Primavera (English), UP Visayas/Iloilo City; Poetry: Ma. Carmie Flor I. Ortego (Waray), Leyte Normal University/Tacloban City;

INWW Alumni: Fiction: Hope Sabanpan Yu (Sebuano), University of San Carlos/Cebu City; Norman T. Darap (Kinaray-a), University of San Agustin/Iloilo City; Poetry: Cindy A. Velasquez (Sebuano), University of San Carlos/Cebu City.

MINDANAO: Fiction: Edgar R. Eslit (Sebuano), St. Michael’s College/Iligan City; Rolly Jude M. Ortega (English), Notre Dame of Marbel University/Isulan, Sultan Kudarat; Poetry: Amelia Catarata Bojo (Sebuano), Central Mindanao University/Musuan, Bukidnon; Shem S. Linohon (Higaunon), Central Mindanao University/ Valencia City who is also the Manuel E. Buenafe Writing Fellow; Marc Josiah Pranza (English), UP Mindanao/Surigao City; and Vera Mae F. Cabatana (English), MSU-IIT/Iligan City who is this year’s Ricardo Jorge S. Caluen Writing Fellow.

INWW Alumni: Poetry: Ralph Semino Galan (English), MSU-IIT/Iligan City.

This year’s panelists are: Leoncio P. Deriada, John Iremil Teodoro, Merlie M. Alunan, Victorio N. Sugbo, Macario D. Tiu, Steven Patrick C. Fernandez, German V. Gervacio, Antonio R. Enriquez, Christine Godinez-Ortega (INWW Director) and the keynote speaker, Jose “Butch” Dalisay, Jr.

Highlights of this year’s Iligan workshop are: the book launching of the 19th INWW Proceedings titled, Writing Memory Memory Writing (2013) edited by Godinez-Ortega and published by the MSU-IIT; the Jimmy Y. Balacuit Memorial Literary Awards; and, the Seminar on Literature, Translation & Pedagogy for literature teachers. The lecturers are Tiu, Teodoro and Sabanpan Yu. For queries, please call Honeylet Dumoran, tel. (063) 2233806.