The University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop, is an annual literary workshop held for two weeks every summer in Baguio City by the University of the Philippines' Institute of Creative Writing. A week-long workshop is also held in Davao City for Visayan writers.
The workshop is open to writers in English and Filipino and several regional languages: Iloko and Bikol (Baguio workshop) and Chavacano, Cebuano, Waray and Hiligaynon (Davao workshop).
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