ILOKANO LITERARY AWARDS

It was unfortunate that the T. Gabriel Tugade Awards which ran for four years had to be discontinued on the 5th year. Maybe the major winner did not know the reason. The Ilokano writing group to which he belongs undoubtedly knows why the awards had to stop. And we also know why: it has something to do with greed among the writers. We made a research ON THE SHORT STORIES in the Ilokano magazine, all of which were qualified to win the awards.Suddenly, there were "new writers" who were writing "good" fiction. Suddenly, there appeared to be a selective policy imposed by the editors, that is, they gave priority to "favorite" writers. Terry, when informed about our findings, had to make a decision: discontinue the literary project. A native of Marcos, Ilocos Norte, Terry wrote Puraw a Balitok (White Gold), a research-based novel serialized in the late 1960s in the Ilokano magazine.It was the time of novelists Maria Quigao, Lina Lorenzo, Lorenzo Tabin, Jaime Luzano, and this blogger with his Casa Fernandez.