Ubbog: Cordillera Young Writers
In their book launch last year, these talented young writers described how they came up with a name for their group. In their book, they said that "Ubbog" is a word that means "a fresh water spring" in the Iluko language. As a metaphor, it is a spring where overflowing ideas from the youth inside and outside the Cordillera region spill out a melange of different views that will eventually quench the thirst for new Cordillera literature. The group was created to foster fellowship among the youth who are interested in writing, pseuodowriting and reading. It was born and kept alive mainly through sheer bravado, teeth-clenching determination and an enthusiasm that can be found only among the so-called youth.
Some of the members here are my school mates, and even former workmates. To join them, they said that the interested person should attend their workshops and seminars first (an alternative they suggested is to get them drunk, they said jokingly).
