UP ICW issues guidelines for writers’ workshop

The UP Institute of Creative Writing (UP ICW) is now accepting applications for the 47th UP ICW National Writers Workshop to be held in Camp John Hay, Baguio City , from April 5 to 12, 2008.
UP ICW Director Vim Nadera also announced that four (4) fellowships are available for open competition and that these are open only to advanced writers.
Submission Guidelines:
Applicants: (1) must be writers in English or Filipino; (2) must have attended at least one creative writing workshop (national/regional, including the UP National Writers’ Workshops), or earned a degree in Creative Writing/Malikhaing Pagsulat, or won at least 1 national/international literary award; (3) must have published at least three (3) poems or two (2) short stories or two (2) pieces of creative nonfiction (e.g., essays, memoirs, profiles) in reputable collections or anthologies, journals, magazines (including campus publications), or refereed Internet web magazines, or have had a play staged. Writers who have been fellows at any of the UP National Writers’ Workshops are eligible. Some of these qualifications may be waived in exceptionally meritorious cases, with the unanimous concurrence of the UP ICW Associates, Advisers and Resident Fellows.
Applicants must submit the following: (1) five copies plus digital file (12 points, double-spaced, 8 x 11) of one original unpublished manuscript (short story, poem, or creative nonfiction, play) to be discussed during the workshop – this manuscript should not have been submitted to any other workshop; (2) a two-paragraph description of a work-in-progress in any of the above genres, in English or Filipino (also 12 points, double-spaced, 8 x 11); and (3) photocopies of the applicant’s published work, including publication details; and (4) application form (available at the UP ICW office in UP Diliman, on the ICW website: http://www.upd.edu.ph/~icw , and on http://www.panitikan.com.ph).
The deadline for submission is January 15, 2008. For inquiries, call 922-1830 and ask for Ms. Eva Cadiz.

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UP Gawad Likhaan: Write Or Die lectures in PowerBooks

Write Or Die: Writers Write lecture-workshops will be held every weekend from November 2007 to February 2008 in different Powerbooks branches and will be moderated by some of the best writers in the country.
We especially encourage people who are non-professional or non-academe-based to attend the workshops and submit their works to the Gawad Likhaan. Teachers are welcome to bring their students. No reservations are needed.
The schedule for the Fiction workshops is as follows:
Dean AlfarNovember 10, 2007Powerbooks Megamall2PM - 4PM
Jun Cruz ReyesNovember 17, 2007Powerbooks Trinoma2PM - 4PM
Amelia Lapena BonifacioNovember 24, 2007Powerbooks Trinoma2PM - 4PM
Charlson OngDecember 1, 2007Powerbooks Trinoma2PM - 4PM
Admission is free and open to the public. For more details, contact Eva Garcia-Cadiz at 922-1830.

Quotes from Writers

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”Mark Twain“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.”Oscar Wilde
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”W. Somerset Maugham“There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.”Lawrence Watt-Evans
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”E.L. Doctorow
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”Kahlil Gibran
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”E.L. Doctorow
“Art is not a handicraft. It is the transmission of a feeling which the artist has experienced. “Leo Tolstoy
“He is able who thinks he is able.”Buddha
“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”Baltasar Gracian
“Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.”John O’Hara
“Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it—and yourself.”Rosemary Daniell
“If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies. “Allan W. Eckert
“Start early and work hard. A writer’s apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he’s almost ready to begin. That takes a while.”David Eddings
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.”William Faulkner
“I took a number of stories by popular writers as well as others by Maupassant, O. Henry, Stevenson, etc., and studied them carefully. Modifying what I learned over the next few years, I began to sell.”Louis L’Amour
“Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.”Richard North Patterson

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