Brew Your Best Food Feature (2017)
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Brew Your Best Food Feature 2017
Guide to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What are the details of the workshop?
What: Brew Your Best Food Feature
When: March 25, 2017 (Saturday), 9AM to 12NOON
Where: 26th St. Bistro by The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf*, Net Lima, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig
What is the workshop about?
Are you the type who would snap photos first before digging into your food?
Take your passion for food to another level with this specialized writing workshop, Brew Your Best Food Feature. In this introductory workshop, we’ll be discussing writing food related articles and finding story angles fit for publishing.
We’ll also have a guest speaker from ClickTheCity.scom, the Philippines’ definitive online entertainment and lifestyle guide that has been around for over a decade now.
Who can attend the event?
It would be ideal for participants to have a passion for food and/or writing, and are at least 18 years old to attend the event. No professional writing experience required here.
How much is the registration fee?
There is a P700 course fee per participant, which includes food and drink. It’s a food writing workshop after all!
How can I reserve a seat?
Simply sign up through our online registration form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7MCr7PbQZKYNaeq4fX5Vs72msF5jJuOZS95LcfUxn53JgQw/viewform?usp=sf_link) to signify your interest and we’ll email you the details on how to confirm a slot.
How can I pay for the workshop?
You may settle the workshop fee by making a deposit to our bank account or via Paypal. Details as follows:
Bank: BPI
Account name: Writer’s Block Creative Enterprises Co.
Account number: Current account 1751 0828 82
If you have the BPI app on your phone, you can also pay via bank transfer without having to enroll our account in your Bills Payment Roster. Simply click on the option, “Transfer to Anyone”.
Once you’ve made the deposit/funds transfer, please notify us of your transaction by emailing us a copy of the deposit slip/screen cap so we can confirm your slot.
You may also pay via Paypal, just let us know so we can send you an invoice.
NOTE: Once you’ve settled the fee, please email us your complete name, contact details, and a copy of the deposit slip/screen cap of transaction so we can confirm your slot.
Is there a deadline for signing up?
There is no deadline but please note that we will close the registration once all the slots have been filled up. Walk-in participants will only be accommodated if there are still available slots.
Who is hosting the event?
It will be conducted by Writer’s Block Philippines, a duo of editors and communicators who have collectively had more than 20 years of experience in freelance lifestyle and corporate writing.
Ana P. Santos: reproductive health rights and women’s issues
Ana has had over 12 years experience in advertising and marketing communications. She left her post as Assistant Vice President of a financial institution five years ago to pursue a career as a freelance writer.
As an independent journalist and foreign correspondent covering sexual health rights and women’s issues, Ana has received media grants from Newsbreak, Probe Media Foundation and the Philippine Press Institute to cover population and development issues.
In 2014, she was named the Persephone Miel Fellow by Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and did a series of reports on Filipino migrant mothers in Dubai and Paris. Her other Pulitzer Center grants include reports on HIV in the Philippines and young Filipino women who go to Denmark on a cultural exchange program as an au pair.
Ana has a regular column in Rappler while some of her full-length features have been published in the The Atlantic, The Los Angeles TImes, Deutsche Welle - Germany and Foreign Policy.
Nikka Sarthou-Lainez: lifestyle / travel
With the belief that writing can take you places and traveling can inspire you to write, Nikka pursued a career as a lifestyle journalist. Her work has taken her to her dream destinations, which she has written about, and which have been immortalized in various print and online publications.
Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Arts from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, she got her feet wet in the local publishing industry before becoming a full-time freelance writer. Since then, she has written several features for asianTraveler, Travelife, Spark, Celebrity Mom, Business World, Highlife, Mango, Metro, Metro Society, ClicktheCity.com, Spot.ph, Herword.com, Homegrown.ph, GMA News Online, Rappler, and WayToGo powered by Smile magazine.
Nikka has also been published in Filipino publications abroad such as Filipino Star News in Michigan, Hawaii Filipino Chronicle, and Dubai-based magazine Illustrado. With her work, she was able to interact with movie celebrities, former ambassadors, inspiring entrepreneurs, and other interesting personalities. Aside from meeting and interviewing different characters, she particularly enjoys writing about travel, food, and other lifestyle-related features.
In 2012, she was chosen as one of the five Asian representatives for Moleskine’s Modern Nomads and was included in its exhibition of travel writers’ kits where some of her travel paraphernalia were shown on display. She was the only featured travel writer from the Philippines, the others were from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia.
She was formerly a Contributing Editor in Smile, the in-flight magazine of Cebu Pacific Air, and was also a part-time writer for Philippine Tatler.
She never takes off her writer’s hat even when on vacation since she believes that anything can be turned into a story.View Nikka’s portfolio at www.nikkasarthou.com.
Guest speaker: Bea Acosta
Bea has been writing about food for almost ten years (and counting!) at ClickTheCity, a Philippine multi-platform guide to experiencing the best in entertainment and lifestyle.
She graduated from De La Salle University-Manila (DLSU) with a double degree in Communication Arts and Advertising Management, and also considers religious exercising in between food assignments one of her proudest achievements in life.
Bea is currently the Features Editor of ClickTheCity and through the years has witnessed how content online, especially food, has been dramatically evolving from web to mobile to social. To write about food in the online world, she believes you must know the food ecosystem well and you must always evolve to remain relevant and creative.
Who do I contact for more information about the workshop?
You can call us through this number (0917) 397.9927 or email [email protected]. You can also check out our website: www.writersblockphilippines.com.
Our story started in 2009, when writers–Ana P. Santos and Nikka Sarthou-Lainez–met at a professional blogging and Internet marketing class and realized that freelance writers had many unique needs that the current landscape was not able to address.
Where do we go to find clients? How do we deal with pricing and competition? Pitching and editors? How can we build a sustainable career as a creative entrepreneur?
While school had taught us the basics of looking for story ideas, drafting news and features, and dealing with the technical realities of our craft, there were many things that we had learned only along the way–things that we felt other writers also needed to know about if they were going to pursue writing as a career.
Our passions and purpose
It is from this desire to share our knowledge and further professionalize the standards of our craft that Writer’s Block Philippines was born.
At Writer’s Block Philippines, we are passionate about words, and even more passionate about the idea that we could make a life (not just a living) doing what we love most.
Nikka had long left the corporate world to combine her two loves–travel and writing; Ana left a lucrative career in banking–foregoing the vice presidency and the designated parking space–to pursue her passion for reporting on women and gender issues and sexual health rights. ...
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