How would you like your essay pieces to be read, studied and analyzed in a workshop with the team behind the best-selling “Young Blood” books from the Philippine Daily Inquirer?
Join the Young Blood workshop at the Philippine Readers & Writers Festival 2016. The workshop will be held at Ballroom 1, Raffles Makati from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on August 27.
There’s no age limit for participants. “Young Blood” book editors Ruel S. De Vera, Rosario A. Garcellano, Pam Pastor and Javier Vicente D. Rufino will apply the book’s unique and demanding criteria of accessibility, honesty and artistry to your pre-submitted first-person, nonfiction essays.
Listen to their thoughts on your work. Participants must submit their two-page essays prior to the workshop proper. This time, we bring Young Blood to you.
Interested participants should e-mail their working first-person nonfiction essay drafts (maximum of 400 words or 2,000 characters with spaces) to youngblood@inquirer.com.ph with “Festival Workshop” in the subject line. At the end of your entry, please include your complete name, address and contacts details. Only submissions meeting all these requirements will be accepted. Deadline for submission is Aug. 23.
Ruel S. De Vera is the author and editor of 12 books. He writes for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and holds a master’s degree in Journalism from Ateneo de Manila University. He teaches journalism at Ateneo’s Department of Communication. He was a fellow of the University of the Philippines, Silliman and Iligan City National Writers Workshops. His writing has received the Catholic Mass Media Award, the Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature and the Philippines Free Press Literary Award.
Rosario A. Garcellano was editor at the Philippine Daily Inquirer News Desk and put out its Travel pages before taking the helm of its Opinion section. She studied at the University of the Philippines and held a Knight Fellowship for journalists at Stanford University. She holds a Palanca Award for the short story and a National Book Award for her compilation of essays, “Mean Streets: Essays on the Knife Edge.”
Pam Pastor started writing for the Philippine Daily Inquirer when she was 17 years old. She grew up in the newsroom, juggling different roles at the paper as Lifestyle reporter, Libre writer, chief of youth correspondents, 2bU editor and Super editor. She has written for magazines like Cocoon, Look, Preview and Rogue, and is one of the editors of “Young Blood 4” and “Young Blood 5.” She is the author of the books “Paper Cuts” and “Planet Panic.”
Javier Vicente “JV” D. Rufino is at the moment working for the Inquirer Group as Director for Mobile. The organization’s mission is to tell the Filipino story worldwide. The sources of funding are from multiplatform advertising, subscription sales, events and services. His areas of expertise are digital and mobile content creation and management. And he’s interested in mobile journalism, business development and revenue models in the field of online media. He studied at the Ateneo de Manila University and holds a degree in Management Information Systems. He used to work at Global Source as Special Projects Officer for Interactive Media.