Ian Rosales Casocot

Ian Rosales Casocot (born 1975) is a creative writer and journalist from Dumaguete City, Negros
Oriental, Philippines. He is known for his prizewinning short stories "Old Movies," "The Hero of the
Snore Tango," "Rosario and the Stories," "A Strange Map of Time," "The Sugilanon of Epefania's
Heartbreak," and "Things You Don't Know." He maintained A Critical Survey of Philippine
Literature, a pioneering website on Filipino writings and literary criticism. Casocot also does graphic
design, and teaches literature, creative writing, and film at Silliman University in Dumaguete City,
where he was the founding coordinator of the Edilberto and Edith Tiempo Creative Writing Center,
and where he is the Literary Arts and Cinema Vice-Chair of the Silliman University Culture and Arts
Council.

Education:
Casocot studied at the International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) in 1998, and Silliman
University (Dumaguete City, Philippines) where he graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Mass
Communication in 1999, and then an M.A. in English (Creative Writing) in 2012.Writing
fellowships:He was a fellow for fiction at the Silliman University National Writers Workshop in
Dumaguete in 2000, the University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop in Baguio in 2008,
and the Iligan National Writers Workshop in 2002. He would later become coordinator and then
panelist of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop, which was founded by Philippine
writers Edilberto K. Tiempo and National Artist Edith Tiempo in 1962
In 2010, he represented the Philippines for the Fall Residency of the International Writing Program of the
University of Iowa in Iowa C .He is the author of four collections of short stories, including Old Movies
and Other Stories (NCCA, 2005) Beautiful Accidents (University of the Philippines Press,
2011), Heartbreak & Magic: Stories of Fantasy and Horror (Anvil, 2011), and First Sight of Snow and
Other Stories (Et Al Books, 2014). Three collections, The Lives of Bamboo Girls, Don't Tell Anyone co-
authored with Shakira Andrea Sison , and Where You Are is Not Here, are forthcoming. Beautiful
Accidents, his collection of stories with frank LGBT themes, was nominated for the National Book Award
in 2012. He has also authored a biography of Dumaguete stateswoman Ma. Luisa Locsin, Inday Goes About
Her Day (Locsin Books, 2012), and edited Handulantaw (Cultural Affairs Committee, 2013), a coffee-table
book celebrating the arts and culture of Silliman University.

He has also edited two landmark anthologies, Future Shock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and
New Literatures (Silliman Press, 2002), which was nominated as Best Anthology in the National Book
Awards given by the Manila Critics Circle, and Celebration: An Anthology Commemorating the Fiftieth
Anniversary of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop (Silliman Press, 2013).His short stories,
poems, and essays have been published in various anthologies, and in Rogue Magazine, Esquire Philippines
Magazine, Smile Magazine ,CNN Philippines, 8List, The Sunday Times, Sands &
Coral, Dapitan, Tomas, Philippines Free Press, Philippines Graphic, Sunday Inquirer Magazine,
and Philippine Daily Inquirer. He also writes two weekly columns, "The Spy in the Sandwich" for Visayan
Daily Star and "Tempest in a Coffee Mug" for Dumaguete Metro Post.
Awards :He is the recipient of five Don Carlos Palanca Awards and an NVM
Gonzalez Prize for his fiction, and his novel Sugar Land was long-listed in the
2008 Man Asian Literary Prize .His children’s book Rosario and the
Stories garnered him an honorable mention in the 2006 PBBY-Salanga Writer’s
Prize. is stories “A Strange Map of Time” and “The Sugilanon of the Epefania’s
Heartbreak” have also won the top prizes in the Fully-Booked/Neil Gaiman
Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards, the only writer in the award’s history who
has done so. Film :Casocot has directed the short film "Trahedya sa Kabila ng
Liwanag," and produced the documentary City of Literature, directed by the
Chinese filmmaker Zhao Lewis Liu .For many years, he is Director of the
Silliman Film Open, and is the 2017-2019 Visayas Representative for the
National Committee on Cinema of the National Commission for Culture and
the Arts.
 Birthday: November 5, 1959
Birthplace: Lung-sod Bago
Profession: Professor, Writer
Contact Numbers: 415-3880 loc. 806 / 374-7561
Email
Address: isebullen@yahoo.com or isabel_sebullen@yahoo.com

University of St. La Salle-Bacolod:

B.S. Commerce-Business Management Batch '83
University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos:
Master of Business Administration Batch '94
Lyceum of the Philippines University:
Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management Batch '07

Isabel Sebullen
HIGHLIGHT OF QUALIFICATION
• 3-time Palanca judge for fiction in Hiligaynon Palanca Awardee
• 3-time Palanca judge for fiction in Hiligaynon
• Comprehensive examination grade of 1.1 in the Doctoral Program of LPU

PUBLISHED WORK:
Research Work The Philippine Agricultural Export (1998-2003) and the WTO Effect: An
AnalysisVol.4, No.1, CBA Digest, November-March 2005 Issue The Art of Writing A Case Study
The CBA Digest January to October 2005 Issue Literary Works :Essay Changing the Changing world
CBA Digest, Vol.1, No.2, June to October Issue Lyceum of the Philippines, Manila.
Jean Lee C. Patindol
Jean lee C. Patindol is a single mother of three, who works as an assistant professor at the University of St.
LaSalle in Bacolod, teaching Economics, Communications and Culture courses. She started writing at an early age
but only started taking courses on writing creative fiction and poetry at the age of 32. She was granted several
fellowship grants to different writing workshops. Her first children's story Amah's Rebellion which resulted from
her first workshop was accepted for publication by Whispers from Heaven, a publishing company based in Illinois,
U.S.A She won the Philippine Board on Books for Young People Salanga Writers' Prize in 2004 for her book
entitled Papa's House, Mama's House and received the same award in 2007 for her book Tight Times. In 2007, she
signed her first international book contract with Living Waters Publishing Company for another one of her
masterpieces entitled, My One-Boobed Mamma. She also does volunteer work for Pax Christi Pilipinas and
for PECOJON – The Peace and Conflict Journalism Network and at the Negros Museum as a storyteller.
June 7, 2014
Jean Lee C. Patindol is a twice-awarded grand prize winner of the Philippine Board on Books for Young People
(PBBY) Alfredo Navarro Salang Prize for Children’s Literature for Papa’s House, Mama’s House (2004;Adarna) and
Tight Times (2007; Adarna). She has recently gone international with her third book, My One-Boobed Mamma
(Living Waters, USA; 2008).She is based in University of St. La Sa Philippine Children's Book. A Dual Language
Book (Pilipino/English). Many adults believe that some subjects are "not for children" and the issue of separated
families is one of these. Yet children are perceptive observers who wonders and feel confused at why they or their
peers do not live with both a moth and a father. This story about such family, told from the voice of a child,
responds to children's questions in a simple and sensitive way. This book opens the way of greater tolerance
,understanding, and empathy in children and adult alike.
Karlo Antonio Galay David
March 30, 2018
Karlo Antonio Galay David’s family has been in Kidapawan in North Cotabato for four
generations. He writes Fiction, drama, and translations in English, Cebuano, and the variety of
Filipino in Davao. He has a AB in English from the Ateneo de Davao University and a Master’s in
Creative Writing from Silliman University. He was a fellow to the Ateneo de Davao Campus
Writers Workshop in Davao, the Iyas Creative Writing Workshop in Bacolod, and the Silliman
National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete. He has a Nick Joaquin Literary Award for fiction and a
Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for one act play in English.

‘In the Manner Accustomed’

Short Story

Published in the Philippines Graphic 10th June 2013

Translation of poem ‘Candles’ by Alvin Pang Published in the Dagmay, the Literary Journal of the
Davao Writers Guild 30th of December 2012
Poem ‘Uwan ug Nabiyaang Kagahapon’ published in Bisaya Magasin, 11th July 2012
Literary Criticism ‘The Poet as Prophet and Punster: A Review of Cesar Aquino’s In Samarkand’
Published in the Silliman Journal May-December 2011
Three Opinion articles published in Sun star Davao from 2010 to 2011
WORKS
 Short story ‘Arabella Raut the Eighth’ Published in Kritika Kultura, semi-annual peer-reviewed
international electronic journal of literary, language and cultural studies of the Department of
English of the Ateneo de Manila University, Nov 28, February 2017
 Short story ‘Kuyaw,’ published in Habi, Collaborative Literary Folio of the Ateneo Universities in
the Philippines, March 2016
 Review on ‘ Lungsod na Pinagpala, Kidapawan: Kasayasyan, Pamahalaan, at Lipunan ’ by
Bergonia, published in Tambara, Academic Journal of the Ateneo de Davao University, August
2015
 Play ‘R&B (Reality and Budots)’ published in Nomads Quarterly, March 2015
 Several articles on the Dumaguete Metro Post from 2013-2014
Rosario Cruz Lucero
June 6, 2014
Rosario Cruz Lucero holds a Ph.D. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines,
Dilima and is a professor at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature in the same
university. Besides critical essays on the literature of the Visayas and Mindanao, she has published
two anthologies of Hiligaynon literature (translated into Filipino) and authored collections of
short stories, Feast and Famine, History, and La India, or the Island of the Disappeared.

The Spatiality of Rosario Cruz Lucero

Published by the University of the Philippines (U.P.) Press, the collection of short stories revisits
her native Negros a Negros peopled by a disparate array of characters, spanning 400 years of the
island’s history. Her characters occupy a nebula of larger-than-life historicized stories replete with
oppression, tactical collaboration, recalcitrant resistance, opportunism, and enduring hope.
Marianne Villanueva
Marianne Villanueva who held a Creative Writing Fellowship at Stanford, is the author
of Jenalyn (Vagabondage Press, 2013), Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila (Calyx Books, 1991;
finalist for the Philippines’ National Book Award), The Mayor of the Roses: Stories (Miami University
Press Fiction Series, 2005), and The Lost Language (Anvil Press, 2009). Her work, which has appeared
in Isotope, PANK Magazine, ZYZZYVA, The Chattahoochee Review, and Puerto Del Sol , has been short-
listed for the O. Henry Literature Prize and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She has edited an
anthology of Filipina women’s writings, Going Home to a Landscape (Calyx Books, 2003), which was
selected as a Notable Book by the prestigious Kiri-yama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Villanueva was a two-time
recipient of a California Arts Council Artists Fellowship and a Margaret Bridgman Scholar at the Bread Loaf
Writers Conference.

She was awarded residences at the Fundation Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain; the Djerassi Resident
Artists Program in Woodside, California; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; the Hawthornden
Writers Retreat in Scotland; and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland.
She currently teaches at UCLA Extension's Writers Program. Born and raised in Manila, she now lives in
the San Francisco Bay Area.
MA, author of Jenalyn (finalist for the Saboteur Awards), Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila (finalist for the
Philippines’ National Book Award), The Mayor of the Roses: Stories, and The Lost Language. Ms. Villanueva’s
work has been short-listed for the O. Henry Literature Prize and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her stories
have appeared in Juked, Witness, Bluestem, Your Impossible Voice, Café Irreal, Crab Orchard
Review and Bellingham Review.
Roger Garcia
Roger Garcia He has been a Visiting Scholar at the National University in Singapore, shortly
after which he proceeds to the University of Oregon Eugene, OR for his PhD on film studies.
Also a theater actor, he has written criticism on film and literature interface and has translated
classic plays into the Cebuano language. He has been a writing fellow in several national writers
workshop including the UP Writers Workshop. His essays have appeared in Philippine Star,
Youngblood 4 and the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He served as editor of literary criticism,
Carayan, Vol 1.

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