TWO literary collections—one on stories for children and another on poetry—are being prepared by GUMIL Metro Manila, the organization of Ilocano writers residing in the National Capital Region.
The stories for children compilation, to be written in Ilocano, will be edited by Bannawag managing editor Cles B. Rambaud and poetry editor Ariel S. Tabag, both award-winning fictionists.
The poetry omnibus, to be written in English, will be edited by journalism and literature professor and Manila Standard night editor Honor Blanco Cabie, himself a prize-winning and published poet.
The two books are expected to be launched in summer 2018, during the 50th anniversary of GUMIL Filipinas, literally the biggest organization of literary writers, with almost 2,000 active members at home and overseas, including the United States, Canada, Greece and Hong Kong.
In the stories for children book, any member of GUMIL Metro Manila, one of more than a dozen chapters of GUMIL Filipinas, may submit up to two contributions while contributors to the poetry treasury may submit up to five poems.
Both Rambaud and Tabag are former secretaries-general of GUMIL Filipinas while Cabie was former president of GUMIL Filipinas, which has published several literary anthologies in English and Ilocano since it was founded in 1968.
Contributions to the first book may be forwarded to [email protected] or [email protected] while submissions to the second book may be forwarded to [email protected] not later than January 31, 2018.
