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MY RESUME
Qualification:
Possess a strong working background in journalism with five solid years of newsroom experience and has the ability to handle
multiple tasks and assignments, think creatively, work at a level of extreme detail, and deal with other intricacies of a
fast-paced job
Enjoy working with people and have worked closely with Editors and Contributors as well as lead
teams of peers --writers, professional art directors, layout artists, illustrators, and photographers-- to produce the weekly
children and youth sections of a local daily in one of the fastest growing cities in Southeast Asia
Love the diversity
of my subjects and writes in many styles and voices, an ability developed while writing a variety of articles including travel
destination stories, the nightlife, restaurant reviews, business and personality profiles for a monthly travel magazine, a
weekend Sunday magazine, and for the daily's Lifestyle section
Experience
Country Media Representative to the 1997 Annual Hong Kong Food Festival
Published
Poet. Works appeared in several anthologies including the most recently published poetry anthology "Word for the World" printed
by the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. Other poems included in Mantala, a Quarterly Journal of Philippine Literature;
Fern Garden, an anthology of Women Writing in the South published by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts Philippines;
Centering Voices, an anthology by the Women in Literary Arts, the only women writers group in the Philippines.
Fellow/Participant to several writing workshops including the National Writers'
Congress sponsored by the Philippine National Commission on Culture and the Arts (Natl. Commission on Literary Arts); British
Literary Conference sponsored by the British Council; Seminar Workshop on Creative Writing by the University of San Carlos
Graduate School, Philippines; and the country's most prestigious Silliman Writers Workshop, Silliman University in Dumaguete,
Philippines.
WORK HISTORY
Freelance Writer. Latest writing assignment: Whip Chain to
appear in Inside Kung Fu. Latest article on print:"Drunken Fan, Drunken Fun" came out in the May, 2002 issue of
Inside Kung Fu, a monthly martial arts magazine distributed globally with a circulation of 110,000.
Columnist, Cebu
Daily News, Cebu City Philippines
July, 2001- present
Section Editor/Staff Writer Sun-Star Publishing, Inc., Cebu Philippines
Jan.1996-December, 2000
-Key member of
an editorial team to produce one of the best selling English daily and its supplement Weekend magazine
-Used people skills
to advance rapidly to top editorial level, responsible for content and layout of children and youth sections of the newspaper
-Increased readership after proposing a new childrens section devoted to young readers and reviving the papers youth section
catering to teenagers and young adult
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