UP Natl Writers Workshop

PENMAN By Butch Dalisay
Monday, February 18, 2008

On behalf of the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing (UPICW), I’m very happy to announce the names of the 12 fellows who will be joining us in Baguio this April for the 47th UP National Writers Workshop. The fellows are: (Fiction in English) Tara Sering, Luis Katigbak, Ian Casocot; (Poetry in English) Ana Maria Katigbak; Vincenz Serrano; (Creative Non-Fiction in English) Rica Bolipata Santos; (Drama in Filipino) Nicolas Pichay, Rodolfo Lana Jr.; (Poetry in Filipino) Roberto Añonuevo, Frank Cimatu; (Fiction in Filipino) Abdon Balde Jr., and Allan Derain.

They were chosen by the associates of the UPICW through a selection process that combined direct nominations and invitations by the Associates with open applications. As in the past two years, the workshop — one of the major annual projects and the most important outreach program of the ICW — will engage writers in mid-career who have already published or are about to publish their first books, and who have received previous writing awards and distinctions

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