- Ian Casocot
Ian Rosales Casocot (born 1975) is a queer creative writer and journalist from
Negros Oriental ,Philippines . He is perhaps best known for his prizewinning short stories "Old Movies", "The Hero of the Snore Tango", "Rosario and the Stories", and "A Strange Map of Time". He also maintains [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/home.html A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature] , a website on Filipino writings and literary criticism.Casocot studied at the
International Christian University (Tokyo ,Japan ) andSilliman University (Dumaguete ) where he graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communication. He was a fellow forfiction at National Writers’Workshops in [http://www.geocities.com/nwwdumaguete/ Dumaguete] , [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/workshops.html Cebu] and [http://www.msuiit.edu.ph/ipag/dulaan/mindwriters/home.html Iligan] .Casocot received Don Carlos Palanca,
N.V.M. Gonzalez , and the "PBBY-Salanga" prizes for hisfiction . He is also the first winner of the Gregorio C. Brillantes Prize for Prose in the Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards in 2006. [http://www.ncca.gov.ph The National Commission for Culture and the Arts] selected him as one of the authors for "The 2003 UBOD New Writers Series". "FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures ", an anthology he had edited, received a [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot2/natlbook_about.html National Book Award] nomination from the [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot2/natlbook_circle.html Manila Critics Circle] .His short stories and essays have been published in "The Sunday Times", "Sands and Coral", "Dapitan", "Tomas", [http://philippinesfreepress.wordpress.com/ Philippines Free Press] ,
Philippine Graphic ,Sunday Inquirer Magazine , [http://inq7.net Philippine Daily Inquirer] , [http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/index.html SunStar Bacolod] , and [http://pressinstitute.ph/memberdirectory/visayas1.html MetroPost] .Casocot teaches English and
Literature atSilliman University inDumaguete City. He is also a correspondent for the "Philippine Daily Inquirer ". He also writes two weekly columns, "The Spy in the Sandwich" for [http://www.visayandailystar.com/ Visayan Daily Star's] [http://www.visayandailystar.com/2006/Starlife/index.htm StarLife Magazine] and "Tempest in a Coffee Mug" for [http://pressinstitute.ph/memberdirectory/visayas1.html MetroPost] .External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/home.html A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature]
* [http://www.geocities.com/nwwdumaguete/ Dumaguete National Writers' Workshop] ,Dumaguete
* [http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/index.html SunStar Bacolod]
* [http://www.visayandailystar.com/ Visayan Daily Star] ,
* [http://www.panitikan.com.ph/authors/ircasocot.htm Online Resource Center for Filipino Writers and Readers]
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