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By Anna Valmero
DUMAGUETE CITY, NEGROS ORIENTAL – Fifteen budding writers from across the country’s top schools have been accepted as fellows to the 18-day Silliman University National Writers Workshop starting on May 2.
The workshop is currently led by its director-in-residence Rowena Tiempo-Torrevillas whose parents, the late Edilberto Tiempo and National Artist for Literature awardee Edith Tiempo, founded the workshop in 1962.
Considered the longest running literary workshop in the Philippines and in Asia, the Silliman University National Writers Workshop is offered to fifteen promising young writers each year “to hone their craft and refine their style,” said Torrevillas.
The 15 will be trained to write for poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.
The panel of critics for this year’s workshop is composed of Dumaguete-based writers Myrna Peña Reyes, Bobby Villasis and Cesar Ruiz Aquino. Guest panelists include Susan Lara, DM Reyes, Dave Genotiva, Ricky de Ungria, Gemino Abad, and Alfred Yuson.
Internationally-acclaimed Singaporean writer Kirpal Sing of Singapore Management University will also join the panel for the summer’s workshop.
Writer Marck Ronald Rimorin, a former fellow for creative nonfiction, said his experience at the writing workshop was “very valuable and memorable.”
Alfred Yuson wrote in his column that the workshop was patterned poet Paul Engle’s workshop at the University of Iowa.
“The Tiempos were privileged to have become part of that workshop. Upon their return to Dumaguete and assuming teaching positions in Silliman University, the Tiempos established their own edition, which they acknowledged to have picked up in spirit and form from the mother workshop in Iowa City,” wrote Yuson.
The names of the student writers are found in the university’s website.
For poetry, the fellows are Charmaine Carreon (University of the Philippines-Diliman), Evangeline Gubat (University of the Philippines-Diliman), Jeffrey Javier (University of the Philippines-Mindanao), Allen Samsuya (University of the Philippines-Mindanao) and Alyza Taguilaso (University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center Inc.).
For fiction, Glenn Diaz (University of the Philippines-Diliman), Christine Lao (University of the Philippines, College of Law), Emmanuel Lava (Ateneo de Manila University), Andrea Macalino (Ateneo de Manila University), and Marius Monsanto (University of the Philippines-Mindanao).
For creative non-fiction, Philline Donggay (De La Salle University), Rogelio Garcia Jr. (Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan), Miguel Sulangi (Ateneo de Manila University), Elaine Tobias (University of the Philippines-Diliman) and Maria Villaruel (De La Salle University).
Fellows will be given housing, stipend and subsidy for transportation costs.
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