IYAS La Salle National Writers’ Workshop
The Iyas Creative Writing 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 and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
Each year, the workshop awards twelve fellowships to writers from all over the country in the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama, and the languages English, Filipino, Cebuano, and Hiligaynon.
Apart from the critiquing sessions, the 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. The workshop is conducted in Balay Kalinungan Retreat House, within the USLS campus.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
The 21st IYAS La Salle National Writers’ Workshop
Deadline: January 31, 2022
The 21st IYAS La Salle National Writers’ Workshop will be held online from March 16 to April 7, 2022 on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons across four weeks.
IYAS is organized by the University of St. La Salle (USLS) in partnership with the DLSU Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) and with support from the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC). The workshop director is John Iremil Teodoro. The panel is composed of Marjorie M. Evasco, Grace Monte de Ramos, Susan Lara, D.M. Reyes, Isidoro Cruz, and Adrian Ho. Elsie Martinez Coscoluella, Ronald Baytan, and IYAS Project Director Rayboy Pandan will also serve in the panel.
The workshop fellowship screening committee accepts creative work in Hiligaynon, Cebuano, Kinaray-a, Filipino, and English. Fellowships are awarded by genre and by language. Writing entries that explore human relations with the environment will be given preference for these fellowships. Ten to twelve applicants will be chosen for the fellowships, which will include a connectivity allowance.
Application requirements
• Original, unpublished work (not previously or concurrently submitted to other workshops) in only one chosen literary genre and language: 6 poems, 2 short stories, 2 one-act plays, or 2 creative nonfiction works, These works must be typewritten in DOCx file, font size 12 pts., double-spaced.
• PDF of a one- to two-page resume containing applicant’s ID photo and complete contact information (residence address, email address, contact number).
• A cover letter explaining the reason/s for applying (PDF) addressed to Dr. John Iremil Teodoro (Workshop Director).
Interested applicants should submit their application portfolio via Google Forms:
https://tinyurl.com/21stIYASLaSalleWorkshop.
For inquiries, please email [email protected].
