ABOUT US

Welcome to BACKSPACE, SPi Writers Guild's Online Literary Journal.

(Design and poetry by JP Canivel)

The Editorial Board

Dylan Yap Gozum
Editorial Director
Web Log Administrator

Dylan is currently working in SPi's Healthcare Documentation as an English Editor. He reviewed restaurants and health products for the now-defunct THE REVIEWER Magazine of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and wrote film reviews for Yehey! Movies. He is currently working on a script for a film and a science textbook for Grade III students.

Pilar Manzano
Features & Reviews Editor
Pia, as we all call her, is WG's ever conscise, proper and well-loved Vice President (the rose among the thorns, so to speak). She is curently assigned in HR Support as Administrative Assistant to the HR Director.

Jose Perseus Canivel
Writers Guild Workshop Manager
JP is a poet in both interest and temperament. He is a Fellow of the 2005 Dumaguete National Writers Workshop. He is currently juggling work, preparation for the Guild's workshop series, is a participant in the ongoing LIRA workshop in UP Diliman, and is hoping to finally get his certificate as a storyteller for the Alitaptap Storytellers Club. He is the Corporate Initiatives Coordinator of CIS.

Alexander de Juan
Poetry Editor
Alex is a member of the UP Visayas Experimental Theater and is a Fellow of the 1995 UP National Writing Workshop. He is a poet, and writes in Aklanon, Tagalog and English. He is the Senior English Editor at SPi's Healthcare Documentation.

OBRA Representative
Art & Photography Editor

OUR WRITERS

Rodera Perez

Julie Malana

Jeanette Agati

Perps Poblador

Mahrose Abaño

WRITERS GUILD CIRCLE OF POETS
Emil Bombita

Richmond Roman

Alexander de Juan

JP Canivel

FRIENDS OF THE WRITERS GUILD

Toastmasters Club of SPi

Luz Desquitado

Espie Vitug

SPi's Office of Corporate Social Responsibility

The EC Council

The Employee Relations Office

BACKSPACE is published every month by

The Writers Guild
c/o PITC Building, PASCOR Drive
Sto Niño Village, 1700 Parañaque City
Tel. Nos. (632)855.8600
E-mail: spiwritersguild@yahoo.com

JOIN US!!! JOIN US!!! JOIN US!!!

We definitely welcome contributions. We'd rather have more contributors than members so do send in your literary works now. The following are welcome for publication but subject to review and editing (grammar and spelling only):

Poetry (at least 3 entries; please include a one-paragraph description of yourself)

Essay (1 entry only; 500 words minimum)

Short Story (1 entry only)

Features (1 entry only / two weeks).