The IYAS National Writers’ Workshop of the University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City, has selected 15 Fellows for 2016, out of 119 applicants nationwide. It will be held on April 24 – 30, 2016 at the Balay Kalinungan Complex of the University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City.
The IYAS National Writers’ Workshop is held every summer in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. It was first conducted in 2001 as a module in that year’s Negros Summer Workshops in Multimedia. Since then, it has grown into an independent workshop managed by the University of St. La Salle (USLS) in cooperation with the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center of De La Salle University and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
In the 2015 workshop session
Each year, the workshop awards fifteen fellowships to writers from all over the country in the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama, and the languages English, Filipino, Cebuano, and Hiligaynon.
The fellows for fiction (in English) are Hazel Meghan Hamile and Gari Real Jamero; (in Filipino) Abby Pariente and Isaac Ali Varona Tapar; and (in Cebuano) Roehl Joseph Dazo and Mae Tiffany Galendez.
Proudly IYAS fellows 2015 batch
Fellow for drama in Filipino is Adrian Crisostomo Ho.
The fellows for poetry (in English) are Miguel Antonio Lizada and Regina Angelica Theresa Bengzon; (in Filipino) Abner Dormiendo and Joey Tabula; (in Cebuano) Herminigildo Sanchez and Reyanne Joy Librado; (in Kinaray-a) Tracy Javines; and (in Hiligaynon) Anne Franceine Jean Corillo.
Alternate fellow for poetry (in English) is Nancy Ayeng.
The IYAS Project Director 2015 Elsie Coscolluela, Workshop Director Marjorie Evasco, Panelists Danny Reyes, Grace Monte de Ramos, Dinah Roma, John Iremil Teodoro, Tim Tomlinson, Documentor Connie Maraan
The IYAS Workshop Director is Dr. Marjorie Evasco and the panelists for this year are Ms. Grace Monte de Ramos-Arcellana, Mr. Danilo M. Reyes, Dr. Dinah Roma-Sianturi and Prof. John Iremil Teodoro. IYAS Project Director Atty. Raymundo Pandan, Jr. will also be in the panel.
IYAS Batch 2015 At The Talisay Ruins
Apart from the critiquing sessions, workshop activities include a lecture from one of the panelists, a cultural tour of historic sites and landmarks in Negros Occidental, and individual consultation time between fellows and panelists.
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