CW student makes it to 8th Ateneo National Writers Workshop

Krisza Joy Kintanar

Krisza Joy Kintanar, a 4th year BA English student, made it to the 8th Ateneo National Writers Workshop to be held on October 19-25, 2008 at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Kintanar will be one among the 12 Writing Fellows of the workshop, and one of the three fellows for Fiction. She was also a fellow, along with two other Creative Writing students of UP Mindanao, to the 15th Iligan National Writers Workshop held last summer in Iligan City. Her fiction and poetry have been published in Dagmay, the literary journal of the Davao Writers Guild.

CWP holds 3rd Creative Writing 200a Workshop

Workshop in session: Cruz-Daliling and Montes (backs to camera), de Ungria (2nd from right), Millado (3rd from right), Tejano (5th from right), and other senior CW students yet to be grilled.

“I actually expected harsher criticism,” was what Gabriel Millado, a senior Creative Writing student, uttered with bravado after the UP Mindanao Creative Writing program faculty critiqued three of his short fiction pieces and one novella.

The occasion was the 3rd Creative Writing 200a Workshop of the Creative Writing Program (CWP), held every 1st Semester of each school year, to assist the senior students in producing literary pieces of publishable quality. The first session of this year’s workshop was held at the Audio-Visual Room of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), last September 20, 2008.

Jorolan-Quintero reads paper on indigenous women and education

How do indigenous women look at the Philippine educational system and its impact on their cultural traditions? That is the question that Prof. Genevieve T. Jorolan-Quintero provided some answers to in her paper presentation, “Perceived Effects of Education among Female IPs in the Davao Region.”

Prof. Jorolan-Quintero fielding questions during the open forum.

Prof. Jorolan-Quintero read her paper before the Valuing Traditions in Shaping the Future: 2nd National Conference on Indigenous Peoples’ Higher Education in the Philippines held at the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) Pamulaan Center for Indigenous Peoples Education last August 13-15, 2008. The conference was organized and sponsored by USEP, in partnership with Minority Care International and the National Commission for Indigenous Peoples.

Prof. Jorolan-Quintero has done researches on the indigenous people’s culture and traditions, specifically on their oral literature. She is currently working on the narratives of indigenous games in the Davao region, with a University System Research Grant.

Her paper on the “Perceived Effects of Education among Female IPs in the Davao Region” was originally published in UP Mindanao’s academic journal, Banwa (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2005: 86-132).