Gusto mo? Tara!

Heto.
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Nakatanggap ako ng balitang ibibigay ang Writer's Prize ng NCCA ngayong taon para sa mga "regional" writers. Rawitdawit para sa Bikol, nobela para sa Cebuano, at maikling kuwento para sa mga nagsusulat sa English at Filipino.
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Available na raw sa NCCA ang mga forms. Tara!
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Deadline na ng ikatlong Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Literaturang Bikolnon sa July 31. Paspasan na adi! Hindi katulad ng mga nakaraang Premio Tomas, mas maraming kategorya ang binuksan ngayon. May rawitdawit, osipon (maikling kuwento), essay at nobela. Sa susunod, ipapaskil ko dito ang contest rules.
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At isa pa, heto, galing sa Our Own Voice:
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Meritage Press is pleased to announce
A Call For Manuscript Submissions by Filipino Poets
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for
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"The Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize"
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DEADLINE: November 30, 2006
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POETRY MANUSCRIPTS: Poets may submit as many manuscripts as they wish. Each manuscript should be 75-150 pages long. Each manuscript should come with two cover pages: (i) a cover page with Title, Author's Name, E-mail Address, Snailmail Address and Phone; and (ii) a second cover page with just the Title. (Manuscripts will not be returned so don't send your only copy(ies).) Manuscripts should be sent to:
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Eileen Tabios
Meritage Press
256 North Fork Crystal Springs Road
St. Helena, CA 94574
U.S.A.
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PRIZE: The winning manuscript will garner U.S.$1,000.00 for its author and be published by Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com).
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SUBMISSION FEE: None because Meritage Press prizes all poets.
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ELIGIBILITY: Poets of full or partial Filipino descent, living anywhere around the world. All such poets are encouraged to send your best work. Whether you're an "emerging" vs "established" poet is irrelevant as judging will be based only on the merits of the submitted manuscripts.
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JUDGING PROCESS: From the submissions, a group of Finalist manuscripts will be chosen by Eileen Tabios. From the Finalists, the winning manuscript will be chosen by Beatriz Tabios. Judging for the winner will be done anonymously.ABOUT THE JUDGES: FOR FINALISTS: Eileen Tabios is a poet and the publisher of the multidisciplinary literary and arts press, Meritage Press (St. Helena and San Francisco, CA).
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FOR FINAL WINNER: Beatriz Tabios received her B.A. with English as her major from the Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines. She developed her love for poetry as a sixth-grader reading Homer, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Alexander Pope, William Wordworth and Samuel Coleridge while trying to survive World War II. She would further develop her appreciation for poetry as a college student instructed by poet Edith Tiempo, the first woman to receive the title of National Artist for Literature in the Philippines. The late Dr. Edilberto Tiempo, then the head of the English Department, encouraged Mrs. Tabios to continue her study of English and American literature. With Edilberto Tiempo's encouragement, Mrs. Tabios wrote her Master of Arts thesis which was the first investigation of "(The Use of) Local Color in Short Stories in English." Later, she taught English literature at Dagupan College (now University of Pangasinan) and University of Baguio, before becoming a teacher at Brent School, a boarding school initially built for children from U.S.-American military, missionary and gold-mining families stationed in the Far East.
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THE FILAMORE TABIOS, SR. MEMORIAL POETRY PRIZE:From Mrs. Beatriz Tabios: "My late husband, Filamore Tabios, Sr., and I were absolutely delighted when our daughter Eileen started to write short stories and poems. In memory of my dearly beloved husband and her dearly beloved father, we would like to encourage Filipino poets by sponsoring this Memorial Poetry Prize."
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BOOK PRIZES:
Finalists also will receive a set of books including these selected Meritage Press titles:
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The First Hay(na)ku Anthology, coedited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young;
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Not Even Dogs, the first single-author hay(na)ku poem collection, by Ernesto Priego;
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PINOY POETICS: A COLLECTION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL & CRITICAL ESSAYS ON FILIPINO AND FILIPINO-AMERICAN POETICS, edited by Nick Carbo
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ADDITIONAL QUERIES may be directed by email to Meritagepress@aol.com
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