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Call for Submissions: Katitikan Issue 2: Places and Spaces

Katitikan provides a platform for both Southern voices as traditionally understood in the scholarship, but also about scholarship that engages with the idea of the Philippines as a discourse on the South. The theme for this issue, as broadly conceptualized but not limited to, is ?places and spaces.? Contributors may submit the following:

*Poems of not more than 70 lines each

*Short stories ranging from 1,000 to 4,000 words

*Flash fiction pieces ranging from 100 to 1,000 words

*A chapter of a novel, including novel synopsis, ranging from 2000 to 4000 words

*Essay and creative nonfiction ranging from 2500 to 4000 words

*One-act play, screenplay or an excerpt from a full-length play ranging from 10 to 40 pages

*Critical essays about Philippine Literature and/or the Philippine South ranging from 1500-5000 words in MLA format.

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Katitikan Issue 1: June 2019

Katitikan

Introduction

(Re)Solving the South(ern) Puzzle: Katitikan as Alternative Discourse
Thomas Leonard Shaw

Fiction

Among the Bissayans of Zvbv
Carlos Cortes

Ang Kalibotan Gawas sa Kalibotan
Omar Khalid

Ang Kataposang Sugilanon ni Borges
Al Osiris Ingking

Ang Panugid Alang sa Buwan
Richellet Chan

Badjao
Mahika Realismo

Baryo Tae
Elizabeth Joy Quijano

Festival of Lights
Camille Bagaipo

Galit si Eba
Gabriela Baron

Geriatrics
Susan Evangelista

HEXOPUS: The Six-Limbed Lad
Charles Sanchez

Honasan
Cesar Miguel Escano

Katayan sa Palihan
Steno Padilla

Manananggal
Mahika Realismo

Manananggal ng Sitio Toledo
Gabriela Baron

Pulubi
Mahika Realismo

Sampaguita
Mitch Balladares

Tides of the Sea
Alanna Michelle Escudero

Two Women of Bantayan
Danton Remoto

Poetry

A Brief Meeting
King Llanza

At Napagod ang Hagdan
John Christopher Lubag

Biyaya ng kutob
Liberty Notarte Balanquit

Candy Keeps an Island Alive
Breia Gore

Ensemble
Christine Marie Magpile

Gawat
Rene Boy Abiva

(hI)Law-as
Elvin Ruiz

kamatis march
Stud Neil Jader

kung bakit laging may patugtog sa SM
Marlon Lester

Kung Paano ang Maghimay
Johann Vladimir Espiritu

Pantalon
Arthur David San Juan

Subukan Mong Bumangon, Isang Hatinggabi, At Pagmasdan ang Nahihimbing Mong Magulang
Mark Anthony Salvador

The Mermaid Speaks
Nico Pablo

The Underside of Healing
King Llanza

Tinagutlo nga Pag-aninaw sa Tinuboran
Jovanie Garay

To Mother
Mai Santillan

Urban Jungle
Lakan Uhay Alegre

uwan: siya ug ako
Ivanie Michmir

What the Brooke’s Point Farmer Taught Me
Nico Pablo

White Bodies Splayed on White Sand
Alfonso Manalastas

Critical Essay

Excavating the Trauma: Notes on the Teng Mangansakan’s Forbidden Memory
Ivan Emil Labayne

The Settler Settles In: Locating a Space for the Settler in Rogelio Braga’s Colon
Ana Margarita Nunez

Play

Entre Medio del Fin (In the Middle of the End)
Ryanne Murcia


You can also read the other issues of Katitikan Literary Journal.

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Call for Submissions: Katitikan’s Maiden Issue

Katitikan provides a platform for both Southern voices as traditionally understood in the scholarship, but also about scholarship that engages with the idea of the Philippines as a discourse on the South. There are no thematic requirements for the first, celebratory issue. Contributors may submit the following:

*Poems of not more than 70 lines each

*Short stories ranging from 1,000 to 4,000 words

*Flash fiction pieces ranging from 100 to 1,000 words

*A chapter of a novel, including novel synopsis, ranging from 2000 to 6000 words

*Essay and creative nonfiction ranging from 2500 to 4000 words

*One-act play, screenplay or an excerpt from a full-length play ranging from 10 to 40 pages

*Critical essays about Philippine Literature and/or the Philippine South ranging from 1500-5000 words in MLA format.

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Libulan Queer Anthology – Cebu Normal University Launch

07 March 2018 – The Libulan: Binisayang Antolohiya sa Katitikang Queer has been officially launched earlier today at the Samuel McClintock Hall of Cebu Normal University (CNU). In partnership with Cratos Publishing House Company, Inc. and the CNU Department of English Studies and Other Languages (ESOL) led by the chairperson Dr Carmel Vip Derasin, the event gathered 150 students (mostly AB & BSE English students), faculty, staff, and alumni of CNU.

The launching also consisted of poetry and prose readings from excerpts of the anthology and discussions on queer poetry, fiction, essay, and drama in Cebuano with Libulan contributors Jondy M Arpilleda, Elvin E Ruiz, Wilfreda Cabusas, and Romeo Nicolas with Libulan co-editor R Joseph Dazo.

Libulan queer anthology?s next launchings will happen this March 17 at Parkmall in Mandaue City and very soon, in Cagayan de Oro and Davao.

For orders and reservations, please email us at libulanqueeranthology@gmail.com.

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Libulan Queer Collective launches queer anthology in Cebu Normal University

The Libulan Queer Collective, a writers bloc of queer poets, essayists, fictionists, and playwrights from the southern Philippines, in cooperation with Cratos Publishing House Company, Inc. and the Cebu Normal University-Department of English Studies and Other Languages (ESOL), proudly presents SOUTHERN AUTHORS LIVE: QUEER POETRY, FICTION, ESSAY, AND DRAMA IN CEBUANO and the launching of LIBULAN: BINISAYANG ANTOLOHIYA SA KATITIKANG QUEER, the country?s first anthology of writings from lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, and straight allies this 7 March 2018, 8 AM to 5 PM, at the Samuel McClintock Hall, Cebu Normal University.

The event will feature academic lectures on queer literature, poetry and prose readings from the contributors, and other discussions. It is open to all CNU students, faculty members, staff, and alumni.