The Nagkahiusang Magsusulat sa Cagayan de Oro (NAGMAC), in partnership with Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan's Department of English Language and Literature (DELL), a CHED Center of Development in Literature, is now accepting applications for the 2nd Cagayan de Oro Writers Workshop to be held from April 3 to 7.
Fourteen fellowships are available to emerging writers who were born and/or are currently based in Northern Mindanao — Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte (including Iligan), Misamis Occidental, and Misamis Oriental (including Cagayan de Oro). An all-expenses-paid event, fellows will also be provided with food, board, and lodging.
The panelists for this year’s workshop are three of Northern Mindanao’s literary stalwarts — playwright-fictionist Dr German Gervacio of Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology's Department of Filipino and Other Languages; fictionist-critic Professor Thomas David Chaves of the University of the Philippines Diliman's Department of English and Comparative Literature; and poet Dr Arlene J Yandug of Xavier Ateneo's DELL.
The Antonio R Enriquez Memorial Lecture on Fiction will also be inaugurated. The workshop management is also looking into tapping the expertise of other local writers such as local literature luminary poet-fictionist Raul Moldez and Palanca laureate essayist-fictionist Dr Ma Elena Paulma.
To be considered, submissions in Binisaya, Tagalog, or English must consist of any of the following:
(a) Poetry: a suite of five poems;
(b) Fiction: two short stories; or three flash fiction; or one novel chapter with synopsis; or
(c) Literary Essay/Creative Nonfiction: two literary essays/creative nonfiction (eg travel writing, literary journalism, nonfiction memoirs, or personal essays); or
(d) Drama: one one-act play.
Applicants may apply for more than one literary genre. All entries should be previously unpublished and have not been included in a creative writing thesis. Alumni of the 1st Cagayan de Oro Writers Workshop or any regional and national writers workshop are not eligible to apply.
Applicants may send manuscripts in Word format (font Arial or Times New Roman, size 12, double-spaced on 8.5 x 11 inches bond paper, doc/docx file) and comprehensive curriculum vitae (which should indicate active mobile number, permanent/home address in the region, school(s) attended, and birth date) with subject “CDOWW_Last Name_MI_First Name_Genre” (example: CDOWW_Dela Cruz_S_Anna Maria_Fiction) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before 28 February 2017.
Each manuscript should not be more than thirty (30) pages. The applicant’s name should not appear on the manuscript. On the email’s body, include a 200 to 250-word bionote in the third person, a cover letter, and a 10 to 12-sentence answer to the prompt “Cite an ongoing/proposed literary project in your school and/or community that you are going to continue/start after the 2nd CDOWW. What are your concrete plans? How have you mobilized/will you mobilize it?”
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
For inquiries from applicants, interested partners and sponsors, you may reach workshop coordinator Abigail James through NAGMAC’s Facebook page. ∎