News article taken from
www.samarnews.com (08/13/2009)
UPV Sinirangan6th Lamiraw Creative Writing Workshop slated November 4-7
TACLOBAN CITY – The Lamiraw Regional Creative Writing Workshop (LRCWW) is now accepting applications for the 6th LRCWW slated on November 4-7, 2009 hosted by the Tiburcio Tancinco Merorial Institute of Science and Technology, Calbayog City, Samar through its President, Dr. Socorro Bohol.
According to Harold L. Mercurio, project coordinator, fifteen (15) slots are at stake for young and adult writers who are willing to develop or improve their craft in fiction, poetry, essay, and drama. There will be nine (9) slots for writers residing in Eastern Visayas; three (3) slots for Abaknon speakers in Capul, Northern Samar; and three slots for fellows coming from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao (one slot per area).
Mercurio informed that applicants should submit a collection of any of the following: 3 poems, 2 short stories, 2 essays, 1 one-act play, or any reasonable combination of the above in hardcopy and on a CD containing the manuscripts and your application form in Microsoft Word (Windows 2003, font 12, Arial) and two 2x2 pictures. Writers may send entries in Waray, Cebuano, or English and those entries written in Abaknon or in any regional languages in the country should have a translation in English or Filipino.
Download application form at
www.panitikan.com.ph,
www.ncca.gov.ph, or simply google it.
Sending your entries together with other requirements (scanned) through email (lamiraw@yahoo.com) is also accepted. Include in your submission a statement from one person of authority attesting to the originality of your works, Mercurio informed.
Those who will qualify, Mercurio said, will be provided a decent housing, a modest stipend, and a subsidy to partially defray costs of the fellows’ transportation while walk-in auditors will have to pay a registration fee of P3,000 each which will cover their meals, accommodation, and workshop materials.
Mercurio further informed that applications should be sent on or before September 30, 2009 to Harold L. Mercurio, Project Coordinator, Lamiraw Regional Creative Writing Workshop, c/o Office of the Arts, Social and Cultural Affairs, TTMIST, 6710 Calbayog City.
Panelists invited for this years workshop are: Prof. Merlie Alunan and Dr. Victor Sugbo from UP Tacloban; Prof. Daryll Delgado and Prof. Larry Ypil from Ateneo de Manila University; Dr. David Genotiva from Eastern Visayas State University , Tacloban City ; and Mr. Dante Rosales from Calbayog City.
The LRCWW is funded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and hosted by TTMIST. For more information, you may contact Lamiraw through 09177982781 or email lamiraw@yahoo.com.
