SHORT STORY WRITING
Sunshine Place together with Prof. Oscar Peñaranda , Instructor of Sunshine Place’s
most attended and well-loved Memoir workshops at Sunshine Place , will be launching
a new creative writing workshop . Building from story-telling skills honed in Level 1
and 2 Memoir Writing Workshops and Pre-Conference Writing Workshop, participants
will discover the line between memoir and story is very thin.
Writing short stories is a great way to exercise your story-telling skills. In this
blended workshop, you will learn about the elements of a story and ways to interpret them.
You will understand how to read stories as you are writing them, and write them as
you are reading.
Through this Short Story Writing Blended Workshop at Sunshine Place, Senior
Recreation Center students will be able to have a chance to learn about literary
techniques for crafting interesting and captivating stories that will engage readers.
SCHEDULE & RATES
Every Thursdays starting January 26
10:00 AM - 12:00 NN
7 Sessions (Blended Workshop - Mix of Online and In-person Sessions)
RATE
Full Course
PhP 5,600.00 Senior
PhP 7,840.00 Regular
about the instructor
Oscar Peñaranda, an award-winning short-story writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and educator, will be conducting another batch of a six-session memoir writing workshop. Peñaranda is a recipient of Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas Award, a prestigious award given by the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL). He earned his B.A. in Literature & M. A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He helped establish the San Francisco Chapter of the Filipino American Historical Society and was its first President.