Workshops

Also known as the Annual Writers Workshop of Cebu, it was established in 1984 by the Cebuano Studies Center of the University of San Carlos (USC), Cebu City, in honor of the poet-journalist-teacher Cornelio F. Faigao (1908-1959), whose heirs provided seed money for the project.

The Iyas Creative Writing Workshop is held every summer in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. It was first conducted in 2001 as a module in that year's Negros Summer Workshops in Multimedia. Since then, it has grown into an independent workshop managed by the University of St. La Salle (USLS) in cooperation with the Bienvenido N.

Established by the late Dr. Edilberto K. Tiempo and Dr. Edith Lopez Tiempo as the Silliman National Writers Workshop in 1962, the three-week live-in summer workshop for Philippine writers (writing in and from English, as well as in any Philippine regional languages) aims to provide opportunities for interaction between a panel of established writers and critics, and the selected writing fellows.

The UP National Writers Workshop was first held at the COMELEC Compound and the UP College Baguio from 12 to 24 July 1965. It was a pilot project proposed by the late UP Pres. Carlos P. Romulo, and administered by the Department of English whose Chairman was Dr. Dionisio A. Rola.

By Jose Jason L. Chancoco

" Poetry is writing about something happening somewhere ?"

We almost wanted to turn this popular query-sounding adage by J. Neil Garcia into a ring tone. It was repeated too often (thanks to poet/actor Vic Nierva) that it was starting to get into our system. From time to time one of us would blurt it out, almost subconsciously, as if the insight is a wave of mobile phone frequency arresting our minds. Then it would come out, well, like a ring tone.

by Harold L. Mercurio

The Lamiraw Creative Writing Workshop is an annual activity held in the month of November at Tiburcio Tancinco Memorial Institute of Science and Technology (TTMIST) under the auspices of the Arts, Social and Cultural Affairs (ASCA) Office of TTMIST and the Research, Extension and External Affairs (REEA) Office of TTMIST in Calbayog City , Samar .