SEBASTIAN DELGADO, dps

SEBASTIAN DELGADO, dps

CREATIVE AUTHOR on literature & medicine for children and young adults, Sebastian Delgado had his first formal education at San Sebastian College – Recoletos de Manila. It was in primary school when he was awarded for loyalty and a gold medal for championing a joint primary-secondary science quiz. In a secondary level when Delgado successfully hurdled an editorial board exam of Junior Dawn. Delgado’s student journalism career included pathological essays such as SARS, and garbage crisis. During his stint in an official weekly circulated student newspaper Dawn (University of the East) as a research director, he covered SONA and featured essays locally, nationally and/or overseas. He joined the roster of workshops—Creating A Memoir with Robin Hemley, and Timeless Verse with Ravi Shankar—both during Asia Pacific Writers & Translators (APWT) held in the Philippines. At De La Salle University (DLSU), he completed Writing The Classroom, and the series of Dialogue with NA F. Sionil José. He was officially recognized as an honorary member, and was an officer-in-charge of Dawn, shortlisted in the selection of fellows of AILAP Writing Lab (Ateneo De Manila University), graduated as a fellow of Palihang Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA), Writing The Forest: Online Workshop On Creative Writing And Critical Reading (DLSU), and registered as an author/writer of National Book Development Board (NBDB). He was invited as one of the speakers for CCP-curated writers’ fair, and National Commission for Culture and the Arts – National Committee for Literary Arts (NCLA). His writings were published by Dawn, the latter’s literary folio Dimension, MaMag malayang magasin, online platforms such as Artikulo Ko To!, and Panitikan.Ph, Dawn Poets Society literary journals, Ovo|Zen, Philippines Graphic and Ani of Cultural Center of the Philippines Intertextual Division. In the beginning of the global pandemic when Delgado’s pieces of literature & pathology were chosen in a peer-reviewed volume of The Reflective Practitioner (University of the Philippines, Manila). The band played on when his recent pieces, of literary pathology as a new genre, were printed on the pages of Mabaya: Mga Tula ng Galit at Pangamba, an anthology about Covid-19 and people living with HIV and AIDS in the Philippines. December in the year 2020 when the approved vaccine was declared, and his pathology poetry was featured in NBDB’s Bookwatch. His next pathology poem will be included in a new book entitled Locked Down, Lit Up: An Anthology of Creative Work in a Time of Quarantine. Just recently published, were his creative pieces, in Kawíng journal, a quarterly online journal Luntian, and The Maginhawa Street Journal, when a United States-based first issue of Beatific Magazine included Delgado as the only Filipino Haikuist contributor. Apart from A Thousand Cranes’ anthology collaborated by Sing Lit Station and Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Center in Singapore, Delgado was likewise published in A Journal Of The Plague Year of Arizona State University SHPRS. Currently, he is working on myth with the use of fabulation technique, eco-humanities as a genre, and sub-genre forestry—plants & trees. Published over thirty books, he is one of the servants of Philippine literature—educator, editor, translator, historian, philosopher, theologist, critic, theorist, scholar, essayist, playwright, poet and fictionist. Other than these, he is also a photographer, illustrator, and reviewer. Due to his goal in mastering such craft in literature, he stepped up to the next level of creative writing course at De La Salle University. Later on, at University of Cambridge.

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