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Romeo Forbes Children's Storywriting Competition for 2012 now open

1. CANVAS' Romeo Forbes Children's Storywriting Competition is open to all Filipinos.2. Entries must not have been previously published or submitted in any other competition, and all entrants must warrant the originality of their submitted entries.

3. Writers may submit only one entry, which may be in English or Filipino. The entry must not exceed 1,200 words.

4. There is no particular theme, other than the use of Jon Jaylo's untitled contest piece, shown above, as the inspiration or basis for the entry.

Bikol literary competition and creative writing workshop to be relaunched in Philippine Literature Portal

Full contest rules of the Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Literaturang Bikolnon, a national literary competition for Bikol writers, and the call for entries of the Juliana Arejola-Fajardo Workshop sa Pagsurat-Bikol, a creative writing workshop, will be downloadable in the Philippine literature portal panitikan.com.ph starting February 6 and 7.

NCCA's Philippine Arts Festival 2012 to offer free workshops

In celebration of Philippine Arts Festival 2012, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts is offering FREE WORKSHOPS FOR ALL! Vim Nadera, UP professor and creator of panitikan.com.ph, will handle the poetry writing workshop. The workshops and the facilitators are as follows:

FREE ORIGAMI WORKSHOP by Maureen Araneta

12th Pamiyabe fellows named

The Angelite, the official student publication of Holy Angel University, in cooperation with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), gladly announces the 15 applicants who are qualified to the 12th Pamiyabe: The Regional Creative Writing Workshop and Fellowship. Food and accommodation for three days and 2 nights at the said venue, workshop kits, and certificates for the workshop will be given. They are as follows:

PEN to hold literature teaching workshop in Bohol

The Philippine PEN will hold "For Love of the Word: Workshops on Teaching Philippine Literature in High School and College" on February 27 (Monday), from 8:30 to 4:30 pm, at the Holy Name University, Janssen Campus, Tagbilaran City, Bohol. Specific venue is Skills Lab, College of Nursing Building.

Co-founder of New York Writers Workshop Tim Tomlinson to hold fiction workshop at the Filipinas Heritage Library

How do you begin a story? How do you make readers keep turning pages? How do you choose a perfect ending?

This three-day workshop will teach the basics of fiction writing (structure and elements) through lectures, discussions, group exercises. Written pieces will also be workshopped. Each course participant will learn different strategies and techniques in crafting narratives, fleshing out characters, polishing the descriptive prose, and others. This way, the participant can create not only effective openings endings, but a wholly memorable story.

Learn from former writers/editors of Psicom in the Hilakbot Writers Workshop

Balangay Productions and Panpilpipol invite you to attend Hilakbot Writers Workshop on January 29, 2012, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at 128 K-8th St., Kamias, Quezon City. The session is designed for sharing and learning new skills from the facilitators and the fellows. There will be group discussions, sharing of tips and tricks. There will also be time to focus on your questions and learn your next step in writing, publising and /or marketing within the genre.

KUTING hosts Publishing in Pajamas, a talk on successful e-book publication

KUTING (Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting) invites writers to attend PUBLISHING IN PAJAMAS: HOW I SUCCESSFULLY RELEASED MY BOOKS TO THE WORLD.

This is a talk by Mina V. Esguerra on Saturday, 4:00 p.m. on January 21, 2012, in Rm 309, College of Arts and Letters Building, UP Diliman.

CTE Productions restages Love, Loss, and What I Wore

CTE Productions will stage a re-run of "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" on Jan. 20-22, 2012, at Carlo Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Tower Building, Makati. Shows are at 8 pm with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3:30 pm. The Off-Broadway show written by sisters Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle) and Delia Ephron (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Hanging Up), vividly recounts a selection of comic and heartwarming stories from different women who remember key moments in their lives through the clothes they wore.

The cast includes:

Tanghalang Pilipino presents Eyeball at the CCP

Tanghalang Pilipino, resident drama company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, concludes its 25th season (2011-2012) with Eyeball: New Visions in Philippine Theater. Eyeball features four plays from the Virgin Labfest, the yearly festival of new works for the theater. Eyeball will run from Jan. 13-Feb. 12, 2012 at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater).

Act 1
Carlo Pacolor Garcia’s
Bakit Wala Nang Nagtatagpo sa Philcoa Oberpas
Directed by Riki Benedicto

Tanghalang Ateneo's presents "Fireflies," Feb. 9-25, 2012

Tanghalang Ateneo presents Suzue Toshiro's FIREFLIES, English Translation by David Goodman. Fireflies is a love story of the post-industrial age ("post-industrial" is a synonym for contemporary. The industrial age was the age of machines. The post-industrial is the age of technology as in contemporary Japan. The concerns are pretty much existential or the self.) Three interconnected couples are trapped in emotional alienation. "There must be a hole in our hearts. And in mine, and in the hearts of everyone in the world."

Ateneo de Naga opens university press, launches 2 books of Bikol translations

Naga City—The Ateneo de Naga University opens 2012 with the formal opening of its university press by launching books of translations in Bikol by two of the region's noted contemporary writers. When it is launched on Friday, January 20, 2012, the AdNU Press is the newest addition to the list of academic publishing centers in the country.

Ayala Museum to host forum on children's books

To be facilitated by INK founding member, Ruben De Jesus. Please call 757-7117 to 21 local 25/33/35 or email education@ayalamuseum.org for reservations and further inquiries. Read more

Call for submission of manuscripts to the Silliman University National Writers Workshop

The Silliman University National Writers Workshop is now accepting applications for the 51st National Writers Workshop to be held April 30 to May 18, 2012 in the Silliman University Rose Lamb Sobrepeña Writers Village. This Writers Workshop is offering fifteen fellowships to promising writers who want to have a chance to hone their craft and refine their style. Fellows will be provided housing, a modest stipend, and a subsidy to partially defray costs of their transportation.

FWGP Opens 2012 with Ricky Lee on OpenBook

The Freelance Writers’ Guild of the Philippines (FWGP) opens the year with its first OpenBook event on January 20, 2012 in Chef’s Bistro (Scout Gandia near Tomas Morato, Quezon City). The monthly OpenBook sessions feature different authors each month, and for January it will be none other than Ricky Lee, one of the country’s most celebrated writers.

SCBWI hosts children's lit book talk and works-in-progress critique

The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators will host a children's lit book talk and works-in-progress critique. This will be on January 9 at Figaro, Greenbelt 3 in Makati from 6 to 9 p.m.

Application deadline for KRITIKA 2012 fellowships extended

The DLSU Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center has extended the deadline till January 16 for application to KRITIKA 2012 National Workshop on Art and Cultural Criticism. This workshop will be held on April 22-28 at the University of St. La Salle-Bacolod.

Get discounts for King Lear, presented by PETA

Since we had an awesome year, we're opening 2012 with a NEW YEAR SALE! Treat your friends and family to see the first-ever staged Filipino adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'KingLear' this January! From January 1-3, 2012 you can purchase seven (7) Haring Lear regular tickets for only PHP2,012 - that's PHP400++ off! Contact 0917-5765400, petatheater@gmail.com to avail. HAPPY NEW 2012 TO ALL!

Call for entries to the 2012 PBBY-Alcala Prize

The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting entries for the 2012 PBBY-Alcala Prize. The winner shall be given a cash prize of P25,000.00, a gold medal, and an opportunity to be published. Prizes will be awarded in an appropriate ceremony to be held during the celebration of National Children’s Book Day on July 17, 2012.

Contest Rules:

The contest is open to all Filipino citizens except those who are related to any PBBY member up to the third degree of consanguinity.

Ateneo student wins 1st Annual Lampara Books Children’s Story Writing Contest

"Sinemadyika,” by Lauren V. Macaraeg, won first prize in the 1st Annual Lampara Books Children’s Story Writing Contest, winning for its author, an AB Interdisciplinary Studies graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, a cash prize of Php30,00.00.

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