![]() ![]() ![]() She used to write on her own but when she started joining workshops, she became more publicly engaged, “I started to become more publicly engaged when I joined writing workshops because writing workshops are where writers meet fellow writers”. It usually is like you read so much and as a result of the reading you start to write your own piece”. But because she grew up in a family who reads a lot, Shane confesses that her voracious reading habits developed her love for writing, “It’s very difficult to find anyone who writes and does not read. “I’ve always liked to write, I started to write poems when I was 9 but because my family is not a writing family but a reading family so nobody really knew what to do about it”. ![]() Writing her first poem at the age of nine entitled “The Sea”, Shane knew how to express love and life through pen and paper even at a very young age. “My first poem was about a girl who talks to the sea about death and the sea would reply through its waves”. She finished her master’s degree in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Shane Carreon is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines Cebu. “Poems are light and heavy at the same time, it strives to put into words things that are otherwise unnamable”, says Charmaine Carreon recipient of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for her poetry the Yonic Lover, and a recipient of the Nick Joaquin Literary Award for her short fiction. ![]()
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