2 anthologies to be released in 2018

VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur — Two literary collections – one on stories for children and another on poetry – are being prepared by GUMIL Metro Manila, a chapter of GUMIL Filipinas which has almost 2,000 members in the Philippines and abroad.

The stories for children, to be writCAMP ten in Ilocano, will be edited by Bannawag managing editor Cles B. Rambaud of Pinili, Ilocos Norte and poetry editor Ariel S. Tabag of Sta. Teresita, Cagayan, both award-winning fictionists from the sister publication of The Manila Bulletin.

The poetry analect, to be written in English, will be edited by journalism and literature professor and former senior editor of The Manila Bulletin Honor Blanco Cabie, first prize winner in the 16th World Congress of Poets in 2000.

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 active members in Metro Manila and northern Philippines as well as United States, Canada, Greece and Hong Kong.

In the stories for children’s 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 collection may submit up to five poems, GUMIL Metro Manila said in a statement.

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 clesrambaud@ gmail.com or asseng.tabag@gmail. com while submissions to the second book may be forwarded to poetn. peasant@yahoo.com not later than Jan. 31, 2018.