Saturday, July 1, 2006

HEAR YE! HEAR YE!


All-Filipino Haiku Contest

The Embassy of Japan and the Graduate School of the University of Santo Tomas invite Filipino citizens living in Japan or abroad to join the HAIKU CONTEST in commemoration of the Philippines-Japan Friendship Year 2006. The theme is: "Pinoy Haiku: Verses for Mother Nature". Details and forms are available at the Embassy of Japan, or better yet, check them out here.
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Applications for the next LIRA Workshop are now being accepted. Applicants are invited to submit five (5) poems in Filipino along with a short bio-data and one 2x2 ID picture to LIRA Workshop c/o Dir. Vim Nadera, UP Institute of Creative Writing, 2/F Bulwagang Rizal, UP Diliman, 1101 Quezon City.


National Artist for Literature Dean Virgilio Almario

Requirements can also be sent to lira_makata@yahoo.com or to liraworkshop@gmail.com. The workshop will be held every Saturday and Sunday this June and July at the College of Arts and Letter in University of the Philippines, Diliman. National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario will direct the workshop.


Updates courtesy of JP Canivel, SPi Publishing

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