UP BAGUIO – NCCA CORDILLERA CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

CALL FOR ENTRIES to the 1st UP BAGUIO – NCCA CORDILLERA CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
APRIL 24 – 27, 2007
UPB Campus

This summer, the University of the Philippines Baguio, in cooperation with the National Commission on Culture and the Arts, launches the first regional creative writing workshop to be held at the UPB campus from April 24 to 27, 2007.

The Workshop is open to aspiring young writers who are college-level students and fresh graduates of universities and colleges in the Cordillera Administrative Region, writing in any of the Cordillera languages (Ilokano, Ibaloy, Kankanay, etc.), Filipino and English. Interested applicants are required to submit any of the following:

Three (3) poems
One (1) short story
One (1) creative non-fiction
One (1) children's story
One (1) single-act play
Excerpt (one chapter) from a novel

All entries must bear the name of the author and accompanied by an application letter, an endorsement from the university or college they are representing, and a brief curriculum vitae of the applicant. All works must be original and unpublished in major publications or anthologies. Applicants submitting works in the Cordillera languages are requested but not required to furnish an accompanying translation
in Filipino or English.

Deadline of submission of entries is March 23, 2007, 3:00 p.m. All entries must be submitted in a long brown envelope sealed with the applicant's signature. Entries should be sent by mail or delivery to the Office of the Dean, College of Arts & Communication, University of the Philippines Baguio, Governor Pack Road, 2600 Baguio City. Separately, applicants are also encouraged to furnish electronic
copies of their literary works to gilbert.francia@gmail.com.

Applicants will be notified of the results of the screening of entries by April 2, 2007. For inquiries, please contact the UP CAC Dean's Office at telephone (074) 444.8393.