2008 DFPP Creative Writing Workshop

The University of the Philippines' Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature (DFPP) will hold its DFPP Creative Writing Workshop on March 31-April 4, 2008 at the Soka Gakkai Center, Tagaytay City.

The workshop is open to beginning authors writing in Filipino, preferably college students. Literary forms included in the workshop are poetry, short story, children's literature, play, and creative non-fiction (short essay).

Applicants must submit five (5) copies of the hard copy 12 points, double-spaced manuscript, including its digital file. Authors may submit at least five poems, two stories (10 pages), two children's stories (5-7 pages), one one-act play, and one short essay (10 pages).

Applications forms are available at the UP Department of Filipino, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philipines, Diliman, Quezon City. Deadline of submission is on February 15, 2008. For details, call Mr. Vlad Gonzales at 9244899.   Or email at dirtypopmachine@yahoo.comi