Philippine American Writers & Artists

Schedule:
10:00 -10:30 am: ..........Welcome/Breakfast (juice, coffee, tea, pastries, fruits, bagels)
10:30 -12:00: ................Poetry workshop with Luisa A. Igloria
12:00 - 12:20: ...............Networking /Light lunch (sandwiches and refreshments)
12:20 - 01:20: ...............Workshop with Karen Llagas
01:20 - 01:30.................Closing comments

Workshop to be followed by a PAWA Arkipelago Author Reading Series event
at 2:15 pm
featuring
Luisa A. Igloria, Barbara Jane Reyes, Karen Llagas, Joi Barrios
at the
San Francisco Main Library
Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
San Francisco, CA

Reception at the Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room A to follow the reading event.
Books will be available for sale.

To register for the half-day poetry/writing workshop, visit: http://app.formassembly.com/forms/view/52172

The workshop is open to all. $35.00 (student), $45.00 (limited income) or $50 (regular) includes the December 6 Workshop Membership fee, breakfast, lunch and workshop materials. You may pay online with a credit or debit card through Paypal below. You will receive a confirmation notice from PAWA, Inc. after registering and/or paying online. If you wish, you may also print the form online and send a check or money order made out to PAWA, Inc. If you decide to send your registration and payment through the USPS, please notify PAWA by e-mail (pawa@pawainc.com) of your intention so that we may reserve a space for you. Please e-mail PAWA for any other questions.

Luisa A Igloria: Presentation/Discussion on the Topic of Poetry, in-workshop writing.
.....The first part of the poetry workshop features multi-award winning poet Luisa A. Igloria. An Associate Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program and Department of English at Old Dominion University, she has 24 years of writing & teaching experience and has been published in national and international journals. She is the author of several books of poetry including Trill and Mordent (WordTech Editions, Fall 2005) which was Runner-up, 2004 Editions Prize and Juan Luna's Revolver (University of Notre Dame Press) to be released in November 2008 and winner of the 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry. In addition, her work has appeared in several anthologies as well as edited or co-edited anthologies—TURNINGS: Writing on Women’s Transformations, co-edited with Renee Olander (Friends of Women’s Studies at Old Dominion University, March 2000); NOT HOME, BUT HERE: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora, as central editor (Anvil, 2003). For further information about Luisa A. Igloria and her publications and awards, you may visit her website: http://www.luisaigloria.com

Karen Llagas: Waking up the Muse or the Duende. Or the Unconscious.
Or simply, our obsessions. Whatever you call "it," this workshop is about accessing that which gets the pen to move across the page. We'll do some discussions around craft and the writing process, generate new material through individual and collaborative writing exercises, and explore new ways towards writing that's both surprising and invigorating. All genres and levels welcome.

.....Karen Llagas has an MFA in Writing from Warren Wilson College in NC and a BA in Economics from Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Broadsided Press, Wompherence 2008 and in the anthology of Philippine-American writers, Field of Mirrors. Some of her poems received a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2007. She lives in San Francisco where she works as a Tagalog interpreter and instructor, and as a poet-teacher with the California Poets in the Schools (CPITS). She has read her writings widely in the SF Bay Area, most recently in San Francisco’s Litquake Literary Festival in October 2008. She will be a panelist in one of the country’s biggest annual writing conferences, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago in February 2009.