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UP Centennial Gawad Likhaan

The deadline for submitting to the Palanca awards ended last April 30. If you missed it, there’s another big literary competition in the works, hosted by the UP Institute of Creative Writing in celebration of the University of the Philippines Centennial. According to panitikan.com:

Six awards—each one worth P200,000—will be offered for original, book-length works in the following categories: a novel or short story collection in English in English; a novel or short story collection in Filipino; a poetry collection in English; a poetry collection in Filipino; a full-length work or collection of creative nonfiction in English; and a full-length work or collection of sanaysay in Filipino.

The competition is open to all Filipino citizens (including Filipinos holding dual citizenship), except for the members of the UP-ICW and its staff. There will be only one prize per category. Authors may submit only one (1) entry per category. Works which have already been awarded a prize in other contests are not eligible. Subject or theme is open. The complete rules are available at the UP-ICW office in UP Diliman. They will also be uploaded on the UP-ICW website and on www.panitikan.com.ph, the literary portal hosted by the UP-ICW.

Contest rules can be found here.

Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 3

Dean Alfar has issued a call for submissions to Volume 3 of the Philippine Speculative Fiction Anthology here.

6th Barlaya Writing For Adults Workshop

Adarna House, in partnership with the Filipinas Heritage Library, is now accepting entries for the 6th Barlaya Writing for Young Adults Workshop. All submissions must target readers within the age range of 12-18 years old. Entries may be sent to Adarna House, 2nd floor, FSS Building, 20 Scout Tuason corner Scout Castor Sts., Quezon City no later than 5pm on July 2, 2007. The workshop shall be help on September 6 and 7, 2007. Only ten fellows shall be chosen on the basis of their literary work. The submission guidelines are available here. For inquiries, please call 3723548 loc 110 or e-mail events@adarna.com.ph .

Books Across Southeast Asia Conference

The Book Development Association of the Philippines is organizing a conference on book trading and publishing in Southeast Asian countries.

Rationale: There is no book trade taking place among countries in Southeast Asia today. We are not buying one another’s books, neither are we trading translation or adaptation rights. Whatever publications there are developed and put out on grants or by the ASEAN-COCI are not sold but donated to libraries or circulated to member countries at limited copies per country.

The book trade that happens is exclusively the purchase, usually huge, by Southeast Asian bookstores, libraries and schools of books by American and British publishers. It is never ever the other way around.

Books carry men and women’s ideas across cultures, across the world. And to not be able to read books from nations in our part of the world is to be separated again and again from these neighbors even after the age of colonialism has long passed. We remember well and fully how the Western empires once upon a time divided up Southeast Asia: The British had Burma, Malaysia, Singapore and northern Borneo; the Dutch had Indonesia; the Portuguese, eastern Timor; the Spaniards and Americans, the Philippines; the French, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; and quasi-independent Thailand survived “on the sufferance between the colonies of rival London and Paris.” [Benedict Anderson] Rivalry among these empires was such that they closed off their territories to other influences, thereby entrenching more deeply and irreversibly their control over these territories. It is therefore not an accident that despite our nearness to one another, we are not interested in one another’s literature, history and arts and ideas. But the challenge before us is how to get, and stay, connected in this our part of today’s global world.

More information.

April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Latest | Leave a Comment

The Bienvenido N. Santos Literary Museum @ DLSUM

Picked up this bit of news while I was at my part time job today~

Works of the celebrated Filipino fictionist Bienvenido N. Santos have found a home in the recently inaugurated Bienvenido N. Santos Literary Museum at the DLSUM library. This literary museum has gathered together a rare collection of Santos’ mementos, ranging from photographs, video clips, awards, original manuscripts and published works. It also has some new material featuring interesting anecdotes about the late fictionist, and contains some significant things that helped him come up with his works. An example of this is the typewriter that he borrowed from Dr. Cirilo Bautista, another icon of Philippine literature.

Beyond the things on display, the BNS Literary Museum will also have exhibitions exploring different aspects of his ingenuity. Lectures, workshops and other activities are also scheduled regularly in the museum for students and visitors.

April 27, 2007 | Filed Under Latest | 1 Comment

Recently

The seemingly never-ending process of site development is… not quite ending, after all, but I can definitely see the glimmerings of light. Club affairs have been–by mutual agreement–pushed back this April in favor of more comings and goings in the direction of the drawing board. When we start launching our activities–foremost of which are Filipino Fantastic, Ladino, and the Visiting Authors Program–in earnest this May, we want to be several steps ahead, not re-thinking everything as we go along.

The club has gone through a lot of changes (birthing pains, some would say) for the past year. The biggest upheaval was actually RodCon and we’re still weathering the aftershocks of that one, but the lessons we learned from it have been invaluable, especially as regards our long-term planning for the future of Read or Die.

So if you have been emailing/calling us about club meetings and club membership, hold on until April 30, when we should have finished with most of the nitty gritty work and actually have something to show for it. We have already set up a Read or Die wiki and this blog now has a regular staff as well as a schedule for posting. We’re nearly finished beta-testing a members-only area, an online store and a secondhand book directory for the club and in the works are a library portal, a blogging network, and we are considering a possible tie-up with librarything.com.

April 26, 2007 | Filed Under Latest | Leave a Comment

Updates

We’re still a bit behind. We’ve started to touch base with publishers again etc to provide us with news of their latest releases/catalogs so you’ll hear more about our review publication in a bit. In the meantime, the best resource is, as always, Panitikan. The Filipino Writer is also a good place for news about writing markets.

I’ll be posting the next batch of interviews for Profiles in a few days. I’m thinking that a regular Friday update for the site collating goings-on, activities, and site changes should be all right in terms of staying on track. Also rounding up a few Read or Die members to blog for this journal. It’s coming together.

If we still owe you something–banners, books, updates–please hold on a bit more

April 10, 2007 | Filed Under Latest | Leave a Comment

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