GBL 2024

Vince Honrado Imbat is a writer and photographer experimenting with walking, drafts, and digital gardens. His Pangasinan poem "Gawat" and its translation "Tagsalat" were published by TLDTD and his hybrid image-poetry collection Mapa ng Los Baños Patungo Sa'yo and its accompanying essay "Ang Borador Bilang Panitikan ng Paglalakad" were published in the Buhian literary issue of Katipunan. Vincent is the co-author of "So we must meet apart," a collection of epistolary essays on walking. His hybrid essay entitled "Traversing Liminality Through Walking: An Autoethnography" won him a fellowship in the 20th Ateneo National Writers Workshop (ANWW20), and his Pangasinan poem "Obong" landed him a spot at the 17th Palihang Rogelio Sicat. He is also a fellow of the Ikalawang Saling Panitik: Bienvenido Lumbera Seminar-Palihan sa Pagsasalin. Vincent finished a BA in Social Science in the University of the Philippines Baguio. He currently lives in Los Baños, Laguna.

Likhaya

Vince Honrado Imbat is a walker, photographer, and writer in three languages. His poems, essays, and photographs are explorations of how a creative, inquiring, free, and liberative spirituality might be practiced in the Philippines. His hybrid image-poetry collection Mapa ng Los Baños Patungo Sa'yo, along with its accompanying essay, "Ang Borador Bilang Panitikan ng Paglalakad" were published in the Buhian literary issue of Katipunan. He is also the co-author of So we must meet apart, a collection of epistolary essays on walking. In 2024, his works received recognition from the Gawad Bienvenido Lumbera and the Gawad F. Sionil Jose. He is a fellow of the 20th Ateneo National Writers Workshop, the 17th Palihang Rogelio Sicat, and the 2nd Saling Panitik. Vince earned a BA in Social Science from the University of the Philippines Baguio and currently resides in Los Baños, Laguna.

TLDTD

Vince Imbat is a writer and photographer who walks the streets of Laguna and the dirt roads of Pangasinan in search for narratives and truth. In his website at vinceimbat.com, he writes two newsletters: Lilim (walk vignettes) and Uman (contemplative essays). He came to poetry via T_ungko ng Tula_, a nine-week poetry course, which started at the eve of the pandemic in 2020. Vince is a fellow of Saling Panitik 2019: Ikalawang Bienvenido Lumbera Seminar-Palihan sa Pagsasalin and is currently translating Thoreau in Filipino. Vince writes poetry in Pangasinan as a humble contribution to the contemporary literature of a dying Filipino language.