The organization was formed to develop writers in the language in the manner that the forerunner of the group, carried its task and succeeded in the undertaking. Years earlier, when they were younger, the present bangolan, at least some of them, worked hard to earn the title as mannurat and succeeded without those literary seminar-workshops.
Fast forward to the present, after five years or so, did the organization, succeed in its mission?
The blogger can not see a young Ilokano writer raised in the vineyard of creative writing. There maybe two or three who are emerging and holding a kind of tool of the profession. But except two, a professor of the University of the Philippines Baguio, and a teacher from the city of pines, they are not being developed to become responsible and intelligent writers. Why? Because they are writing hate, dishonest literature, they are being dictated by unscrupulous individuals who give them money for their loyalty.
(Of course, Junley Lazaga Lorenzana is a writer waiting to be discovered. He developed on his own. He was our first winner of the poetry contest. The other young writer, a teacher of Baguio City--that's what we assessed her from her poems--is also in the same situation. )
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| Laoag Roman Catholic Sinking Tower |
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| The Gilbert Bridge over the Padsan River in Laoag City, Philippines |
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