Transcript of Philippine Genre Stories Interview on NU 107

Philippine Genre Stories went on the air one more time last Wednesday, this time on NU 107.5. Charles also has the full transcript of this interview up on his blog.

This section of the interview may be especially interesting to other spec fic writers out there:

NU107: I heard you have a writing contest coming up. You wanna talk about it?

Kenneth: That’s right, thank you for reminding. Each issue has an image and it’s a section called Image Inspiration, and has an image be it a photo or a drawing by a local artist.

NU107: Where can you find that?

Kenneth: It’s at the last page.

NU107: For this issue, you have…

Kenneth: A drawing by Andrew. Who’s also a talented artist. So we invite people to write a short short story, between three hundred to five hundred words, and then a panel of judges, who don’t know each other, will give their comments and rank them and the winner gets to win a free copy and have their story published in the next issue.

NU107: So how do they go about sending their entries?

Kenneth: Everything is on the blog, philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com, but this particular contest is over. So wait for the third issue, we’ll have a new picture, a new image, for which people can join.

Vin and Andrew, spec fic pros also present in the interview, also have interesting responses to the rather general question: What is the value of writing stories?

Read the full transcript to know their answers.