UPDATE:The Project is over, Thank you to everyone who participated, the entries were enlightening and eye opening.  Thank you also to those who sponsored prizes for the Writing Project!  More Writing Projects to come! HEAD ON TO THE FINAL SUMMARY POST!

UPDATE, NEW DEADLINE! JUNE 27

UPDATE, NEW PRIZE PAGE!

Please Note: All Participants receive a FREE STICKER.. However, we still need the address as to where to send it to, please use the contact form, and your name, so we can send you your sticker.

Along with the launching of Filipino Voices.com we would like to also announce the simultaneous launching of a writing project. The Philippine Issues writing project. You decide the issue, in your own words, in your own style. This is a way in which everyone can participate, and this is also a way in which our readers will realize the multi dimensional aspect of the challenges we face as a nation.

So whether you are a technology blogger, a personal blogger, socio-political blogger, or a lifestyle blogger, anyone can participate, and is encouraged to participate.
This will be a two month long writing project, each Friday we will announce those who have participated and the articles they have written.

This is about the issues that you feel need to be written about. Whether it is in the technology sector, our economy, social justice, politics, it’s all up to you, be thoughtful and creative.

At the end of the two months, we will raffle off prizes for those who have participated in the writing project. Among the prizes will be P10,000 worth of books, cash prizes, and t-shirts. We will officially put up the list of prizes to be awarded in the coming weeks.

But, honestly, this isn’t really about the prizes, it’s all well and good, yes, but at the end of the day, we hope you can join this writing project because you truly want to write about the issues that are affecting The Philippines. To shed light on these issues, should be our number one goal.

Here’s how to join. Just leave a comment. A link to the url where your article is located, or if you don’t have a blog, you can simply email the article to nick (at) tingog (dot) com.

Thank you.

The preceding has been an unpaid announcement from the bloggers of FilipinoVoices.com

Week 1 Entries , Week 2 Entries, Week 3 and Week 4

Update, April 19: Specific Rules

• Maximum 2 entries per person
• Contest Deadline: June 9, 2008
• All topics allowed, no maximum or minimum amount of words
• Must have been written on or after January 1, 2008
• Must be an original work

Update, May 4: Prizes

• Filipino Voices Stickers for everyone who participates
• Books on Philippines and/or politics (to be raffled off)
• A Flickr Pro Account (to be raffled off)
• (3) Free One Year Blog Hosting sponsored by Ederic
• A CD Set of 20 Speeches That Moved A Nation sponsored by Manuel Quezon III

Please note, that the title of the books will be announced at a later date.

Update: May 22, 2008

• Please email me your address where we can send the Filipino Voices sticker. All other prizes will be raffled off. Contributors and Authors of this blog cannot have a chance to win any of the prizes, but will be able to receive a free sticker as a giveaway prize for joining the writing project.

• The Deadline has been moved to June 27, so that more individuals may join, since as was unexpected, the news of this writing project took a while to spread .

Update: May 26, 2008 More Prizes!

Gibbs Cadiz is donating two beautifully illustrated coffee table books for the writing project as well as a literary book, all on The Philippines. Knowing the importance of this project, without any solicitation, he is giving away these amazing books.

• WELCOME TO THE PHILIPPINES, a Department of Tourism prepared compendium of everything attractive and worth checking out in the country (beautiful coffee table book)
• MANILA BAY: CROSSROADS OF ASIA, a book that celebrates the place of this body of water in the history and culture of both RP and asia. (beautiful coffee table book)
• BAGETS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF FILIPINO YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Update May 28, 2008 More Prizes!

(2) Two Moleskine Notebooks donated by PinoyCentric.

Moleskine is the heir of the legendary notebook, used by european artists and thinkers for the past two centuries. In other words, think of it as the Gold Standard for a writer’s notebook.

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