Workshop dates: May 15, 22, & 29 2021 (Saturday sessions)
Deadline of submission: 8 May 2021

Have more structure and guidance in your writing life by joining a fiction-writing workshop at MCAD. To be facilitated by TRESE series writer Budjette Tan,  the workshop will focus on horror and will be held for three (3) Saturdays, beginning 15 May 2021. 

Applicants should submit the following:

1) Short resume with ID photo and must include   

a) Date of birth   

b) Contact information (email address and  contact number)

2) PDF of an original work with an affidavit attesting to the originality of the piece.

There will be 15 participants chosen for the workshop and orientation will be on 15 May. The deadline for submission is on 8 May 2021.

Please submit all materials to: mcad@benilde.edu.ph

*Participation to this workshop is FREE OF CHARGE under MCAD’s Public Programs.

About Budjette Tan

He supposedly grew up in a haunted house and was told to sleep early
because there were aswang outside their bedroom window. Who would’ve
known that these stories would later influence and inspire him to write the
comic book TRESE, co-created with artist Kajo Baldisimo.

Their comic book is a three time winner of Best Graphic Literature of the
Year in the Philippine National Book Awards. (2009, 2011, 2012)
He is also the writer and co-creator of “THE DARK COLONY Book 1:
Mikey Recio and the Secret of the Demon Dungeon”, which also won the
same award in 2013.

Budjette was a co-editor for Alamat Comics, The Lost Journal of Alejandro
Pardo: Creatures and Beasts of Philippine Folklore, The Black Bestiary:
An Alejandro Pardo Compendium, and the upcoming SOUND: A Comic
Book Anthology, which features stories from Southeast-Asia (co-edited
with Charis Locke, published by Difference Engine).

He now lives in Denmark with his wife and son; where he works as one of
the Creative Lead in the LEGO Agency. By the way, his name is pronounced “budget”, but please don’t ask him any questions about finance.