TWELVE creative writers have been selected as fellows to the 58th University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop (UPNWW), to be held in Baguio City from July 7 to 14, 2019, the state university’s creative writing institute said.
In an announcement on its panitikan: Philippine Literature Portal website on May 19, Likhaan: UP Institute of Creative Writing (UP ICW) identified the fellows as Rene Boy Abiva (poetry in Filipino), Ron Baticulon (creative nonfiction in English), Paul Castillo (poetry in Filipino), Christopher Gozum (screenplay in English and Pangasinan), Jerome Hipolito (poetry in Bikol), Charmaine Lasar (fiction in Filipino), Andrian Legaspi (fiction in Filipino), Gerardo Los Baños (fiction in English), Sarah Lumba (fiction in English), Dawn Marfil (creative nonfiction in English), Francis Paolo Quina (fiction in English) and Denver Torres (poetry in English).
This year’s workshop director is award-winning writer Anna Felicia Sanchez, while the workshop panel is made up of the UP ICW’s advisers, fellows and associates, also prize-winners.
They are National Artists Virgilio S. Almario, Bienvenido Lumbera and Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio; Palanca Hall of Fame awardees Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. and Eugene Y. Evasco; UP Professors Emeriti Gémino H. Abad and Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo; UP Press Director J. Neil Garcia; and Romulo Baquiran, Luna Sicat Cleto, Vladimeir Gonzales, Ramon Guillermó, Victor Emmanuel Carmelo Nadera Jr., Charlson Ong, Jun Cruz Reyes, Roland Tolentino and Sanchez.
Previously dedicated to helping up-and-coming writers, the UPNWW was reformatted in 2006 to mentoring mid-career writers. The modified workshop aims to help writers who have already published (or are on the verge of publishing) a book, or have won major literary awards, to further hone their craft.
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