Davao Writers Guild
Archive for November, 2010
3rd Taboan International Writers Festival
1902 days
by Dominique
in Announcements
The Taboan International Writers Festival will be coming to Davao in February 2011. The festival will run from February 10 to February 12, 2011. It will be held at the Royal Mandaya Hotel. More than 80 delegates from all over the Philippines are expected to attend, along with five international representatives.
First organized in 2009, the Taboan International Writers Festival is an annual gathering of writers from the Philippines and other parts of the world.
Taboan is a Bisaya word which means marketplace. In keeping with its word origin, the Taboan International Writers Festival seeks to be a marketplace of ideas for the Philippine literary community.
At Taboan, writers share their experiences, projects, philosophies, and styles. From this exchange, Taboan hopes to foster new inspirations and new ventures. For veteran writers, Taboan is a reunion of friends and once-familiar faces now dispersed across the regions. For young writers, Taboan is a time to meet mentors, peers, and collaborators.
With the third Taboan, the International Writers Festival will complete its first circuit of the major island groups of the Philippines.
The Best of Dagmay / Fractional Lives
0902 days
Our next two publications, due for launch in January 2011. The Best of Dagmay collects the best poems, short stories, essays, and plays published in Dagmay from 2007 to 2009. Fractional Lives is Margot Marfori’s collection of short stories.
Shifting Plain, Shifting Planes Concept Paper
0903 days
by Dominique
in Announcements
Shifting Plain, Shifting Planes is a multi-disciplinary exhibition that will be participated by different art practitioners to commemorate February Arts Month.
The Shifting plain concept was basically inspired by Climate change and its effect to the society or environment. The plain is defined as the dynamism of change. It describes change and re-alignment of perspective in terms of art forms. It is something basic, yet essential.
Shifting Plains
0903 days
by Dominique
in Announcements
The Philippine Visual Arts Festival 2011 (PIVAF 11), particularly the Literary Arts will be launched here in Davao City with pockets of initiatives from various art forms on February 6-12, 2011.
For this year’s Arts Month Celebration, the Committee on Visual Arts will be creating an assemblage of various artistic endeavors in different areas in the country showcasing together a wealthy harvest of Filipino creativity.
Dili Alang Kang David ang Baboy-Ihalas
1by Satur Apoyon
Gikan sa tamboanan sa gamayng balay-kawayan sa bungtod, miguho si David. Gisud-og niya ang nangadalag nga dahon sa mais gumikan sa hataas nga hulaw. Gibati niya ang tumang kahinugon sa iyang mga tanom.
Yanong mag-uuma si David. Nakapanunod sa usa ka ektaryang luna nga kabilin sa iyang mga ginikanang patay na.
Kap-atan pa lamang ang panuigon ni David. Apan maorag kapin na siya sa kalim-an. Dili lang kay yagpison, napagtong pa gayod ang panit ni David nga kanunayng naduas sa Adlaw. Gawas pa niana, may namut-ak-put-ak pa gayod nga puting buhok sa iyang ulo. Kinsa ba goy dili matigulang pagdali sa kahimtang ni David nga nagbuhi og 0.0masakitong asawa ug tulo ka gagmay pang mga anak?
Winners of 2nd Bisaya Fiction-Writing Contest announced
0Winners of the 2nd Fiction-Writing Contest in Bisaya, organized by the Davao Writers Guild and the National Commission on Literary Arts, were announced today by the contest panel of judges.
The winner of the First Prize is the short story, “Danguyngoy sa Suba” written by Jayson E. Parba of Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City. Winner of the Second Prize is “Kinsa ang Nagpatay sa Pari sa Calinan” by UP Mindanao graduate Errol A. Merquita of Tugbok, Davao City, and Winner of the Third Prize is “Bugti” by Liceo de Cagayan University graduate Raul G. Moldez of Cagayan de Oro City.