opps for you

Hey La Diva, like I promised I checked out the guidelines and deadlines for the 2005 Japanese Government Scholarships.

also, you might be interested to apply for the iligan national writers' workshop. yes, i swiped it from one of my egroups and now i'm spreading the word.

12th Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW)

The Mindanao Creative Writers Group and the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology are accept­ing applications from writers to the 12th Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW) to be held on May 2-5, 2005 in Iligan City.

Panelists this year are Rosario Cruz Lucero, Erlinda Kintanar Alburo, Jaime An Lim, Leoncio P. Deriada, Merlie Alunan, Tim Montes, German V. Gervacio, Steven Patrick Fernandez and this year¡¦s keynote speaker, the fictionist and Director of the De La Salle University¡¦s Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center,Vicente G. Groyon.

Fifteen (15) slots, five each from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are available for writing fellowships to the INWW.

Applicants are required to submit five poems, or, one short story, or, a one-act play in Filipino, English or in Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a, Waray (with translations) along with the applicant's biodata, two 2X2 photos and a
certification that his/her work is original. Please submit a hard copy and a 3.5
diskette with the manuscripts encoded in MS Word. Unpublished works are preferred.

Writing fellows will be given free board and lodging and a travel allowance.
Applications must be postmarked on or before February 28,2005. No applications
or manuscripts will be accepted if sent by fax or e-mail. Applicants are also
advised to keep copies of their manuscripts since these will not be returned.

Send all applications to the 12th INWW Director, Christine Godinez-Ortega c/o OVCRE, MSU-IIT, Iligan City. For more information call Pat Cruz tels.
(063) 3516131; 221-4050/55 loc. 113