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Call for manuscripts! | 28th Iligan National Writers Workshop 2021

Posted on : August 06, 2021

 
The π‘€π‘–π‘›π‘‘π‘Žπ‘›π‘Žπ‘œ πΆπ‘Ÿπ‘’π‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘£π‘’ π‘Šπ‘Ÿπ‘–π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘  πΊπ‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘’π‘ (MCWG), the π‘€π‘–π‘›π‘‘π‘Žπ‘›π‘Žπ‘œ πΆπ‘Ÿπ‘’π‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘£π‘’ & πΆπ‘’π‘™π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘™ π‘Šπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘˜π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘  πΊπ‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘’π‘ (MCCWG), the π‘€π‘†π‘ˆ-πΌπ‘™π‘–π‘”π‘Žπ‘› 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑒 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‡π‘’π‘β„Žπ‘›π‘œπ‘™π‘œπ‘”π‘¦’𝑠 πΆπ‘’π‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿ π‘“π‘œπ‘Ÿ πΆπ‘’π‘™π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’ & π΄π‘Ÿπ‘‘π‘ , the π‘π‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘œπ‘›π‘Žπ‘™ πΆπ‘œπ‘šπ‘šπ‘–π‘ π‘ π‘–π‘œπ‘› π‘“π‘œπ‘Ÿ πΆπ‘’π‘™π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’ π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘ π΄π‘Ÿπ‘‘π‘  (NCCA) open submissions to the πŸπŸ–π­π‘ 𝐈π₯𝐒𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐚π₯ π–π«π’π­πžπ«π¬ 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐀𝐬𝐑𝐨𝐩.
 
Writing fellows to be accepted:
βœ’οΈ 4 Senior Fellows – pre-selected and invited by Workshop Director
βœ’οΈ 2 from Luzon
βœ’οΈ 3 from Visayas
βœ’οΈ 6 from Mindanao
βœ’οΈ 4 from ASEAN
 
Evaluators of submissions are to be selected from the workshop’s roster of alumni by the Workshop Director.
 
Evaluation of applicants from the ASEAN region will be evaluated separately by their respective country’s National Writers’ Associations.
 
All Senior Writing Fellows and ASEAN Writing Fellows will be asked to submit summaries of their creative processes or the poetics of the genres they are submitting to the workshop.
 
They are expected to present their creative processes of works in progress or their poetics in 20 minutes before the evaluation of their works by selected panelists.
 
If submitting works in their original languages, these must be accompanied by translations in English only.
 
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✍🏽 Poetry – A suite of 5 poems
✍🏽 Fiction – Short Fiction of not more than 30 pages
✍🏽 Excerpt of Novel with a summary in English
✍🏽 Drama – One-Act Play
✍🏽 Children’s Literature – not more than 1,000 words per story or print-ready manuscript for book may be submitted
✍🏽 Creative Non-Fiction – in English only
 
The workshop will also be accepting submissions of works in literary forms that defy conventional genres.
 
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All Mindanao languages and their variants or dialects (including the creolized or hybridized, and experimental forms), English, Cebuano, Filipino, Hiligaynon, Waray, Samareno and in any of the ASEAN languages (Siamese, Cambodian, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, etc.)
All works if written in their original languages should be accompanied by translations in English only.
 
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Applicants who have attended regional workshops, who are students or graduates of Creative Writing courses and professional writers are qualified to apply to the workshop.
 
Download application form at: .
 
Send two sets of manuscripts in Word and in PDF, filled out application forms and 2X2 photos in one file to:
 
The 28th Iligan National Writers Workshop Director
c/o arlem.abanes2003@yahoo.com / arlem.abanes@
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