NEA CAHILL, an MCA-Research student at the Faculty of Creative Arts, will leave for the Philippines on 22 April 2004 for a 3-month research and study at the University of Santo Tomas Centre for Creative Writing and Studies. She is the successful recipient of the UMAP fund of $4000 from DEST and a workshop fellowship (in fiction) from the host institution. As an exchange student under the UMAP Programme, she will research and write her main project (a cycle of short stories) in consultation with Filipino writers and academics; she will also attend lectures on Philippine Fiction at the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School. As well, her manuscripts will be workshopped by major Filipino writers at a national workshop in Baguio City. Watch out for Nea's 'postcards' in the IQ section of the Mercury in the next month.
Faculty of Creative Arts
University of Wollongong
April 2004
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