by Kahlil Mikhail Pundaodaya For the first time in its 27-year history, the Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW) will be welcoming international participants together with regular writing fellows when it opens on November 30, 2020. The seven-day workshop that will be held online and that will end on December 6, 2020, will feature four international...Read More

by by Christine F. Godinez Ortega, INWW Director In May 1994, the first Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW) opened with 15 writing fellows, and pioneer panelists, the late Gawad CCP Leoncio P. Deriada, the late National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista, Steven PC Fernandez, Jaime An Lim (First Director), Anthony Tan and this writer...Read More

by Christine F. Godinez Ortega, Office of Publication & Information “Dalawang Gabi” – Mark Clint Mermio and Aizel Yoyongco. Intense passions and cultural factors ruled IPAG’s latest twin bill offering, Lipat Lapit featuring Rogelio ‘Roger’ Garcia’s “Maratabat” and Maynard Manansala’s “Dalawang Gabi”. The twin production had ten shows before SRO audiences. Re-runs are scheduled in...Read More

by Ian S. Embradura, OPI This year’s 22nd Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW) awarded seven writing fellows the Jimmy Y. Balacuit Literary Award during the closing program at the Elena Tower Inn on May 29, 2015. Dean Rosalinda C. Balacuit, former Dean of the MSU-IIT College of Engineering and widow of the late Dr. Jimmy...Read More

by Chrsistine Godinez-Ortega The Office of Publication & Information (OPI), the Mindanao Creative Writers Group, Inc., funded by the OPI and the National Commission for Culture & Arts (NCCA) released the names of 18 writing fellows for the 22nd Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW) to be held on May 25-29, 2015. The 18 Iligan workshop...Read More

The five winners of this year’s 12th Jimmy Y. Balacuit Literary Awards wrote in the various regional languages. There were no winners for the English Division and none for the Category on Drama. The Jimmy Y. Balacuit Literary Awards (JYB awards) is given during the culminating program of the Iligan National Workshop (INWW). This year,...Read More

The Office of Publication & Information (OPI), the Department of English of the College of Arts & Social Sciences (CASS) funded by the OPI and the National Commission for Culture & Arts (NCCA) released the names of 15 writing fellows during the 21st Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW) to be held on May 26-31, 2014....Read More

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Cultural Exchange Department (CED) brought to the MSU-IIT the 2013 Ugnayan sa Singing Exchange Tour. The MSU-IIT through its Mindanao Creative Writers Group-Iligan National Writers Workshop (MCWG-INWW) conducted the Seminar-Workshop on Creative Writing at the CEd Amphitheatre on September 24-26, 2013. This is part of the Exchange Tour...Read More