The National Book Development Board is pleased to announce the recipients of the writing grants through the National Book Development Trust Fund program. Four writers whose works were chosen among 69 manuscripts under the Local History and Culture category will be awarded each with a writing grant worth Php200,000.00.
The following are the recipients of writing grants under the National Book Development Trust Fund program for 2015:
- Title: The Literature of Dumaguete and Negros Oriental
Author: Ian R. Casocot
Region: VII
- Title: Unweaving Basey: A Poet’s History of Home
Author: Dinah Roma-Sianturi
Region: NCR
- Title: Kulturang Karera: Culture and Communication in Philippine Horseracing
Author: Jennifer Rebecca Ortuoste
Region: NCR
- Title: An Uncyclopedia to Art, Life and Living in Baguio, the Cordilleras…and the World
Authors: Rocky Cajigan, Kawayan de Guia, Padmapani Perez, Franklin Cimatu
Region: CAR
The awarding ceremony will be held on March 28, 2016.
Through Republic Act No. 9521, the National Book Development Trust Fund (NBDTF) was established exclusively for the support and promotion of Filipino authorship and the completion of local manuscripts or research works for publication, especially in Science and Technology and in subject areas where locally-authored books are either few or non-existent. The monetary award to authors/writers allows them to complete the writing phase of a book-length manuscript eligible for publication.
Aside from the Local History and Culture category, three categories were also launched for applications of grants last November 2014:
- Food science and technology/organic agriculture/sustainable agriculture/agritourism;
- Traditional/integrative/tropical medicine; and
- Popular science.
Grantees of the three categories were announced last January 22, 2016.
