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3 days ago · This last, and soon-to-end, contract came my way 2011, in the middle of the most exciting writing class I have been admitted to—First Draft. It was a club of nine writing women picked by Gilda Cordero-Fernando. Gilda gathered us every month and had us, including her, come with a draft to read for critiquing.
2 days ago · Nick Joaquin, a Filipino writer and journalist, describes Filipino heritage as one of smallness—from the barangay to the sari-sari store to the practice of tingi. This heritage of smallness is linked to a subsistence lifestyle and survival strategies in the face of economic challenges.
6 days ago · The speeches of the 2024 awardees, of the CCP officials led by CCP chairman Dr. Jaime C. Laya, and of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. read by his sister, Irene Marcos-Araneta, herself an active advocate of Philippine culture, especially music, reflected the vast spectrum—with all its complexities—that has come to represent the arts and culture in recent decades.
Sep 11, 2024 · With just their pens or drawing software, these Filipino illustrators craft stories that transport us out of daily life, even momentarily
Sep 25, 2024 · At the 2024 festival’s launch event held at Red Carpet at Shangri-la in Mandaluyong City on Tuesday, Sept. 24, organizer Instituto Cervantes de Manila shared that a Filipino writer-director will return, while another filmmaker will screen a work that has not been released commercially. Article continues after this advertisement.
Sep 22, 2024 · Gilda Cordero-Fernando, better known as Gilda Olvidado, was a prominent Filipino novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She was born on June 9, 1937, in Manila, Philippines, and grew up in a creative and culturally rich environment.
Sep 21, 2024 · At the Silliman University National Writers’ Workshop, many a fledgling writer has gone through what is still considered as the serious young writer’s most difficult rite of passage. The stronger ones among them have endured in the craft, and have published their poems, stories, creative nonfiction essays, and literary criticism ...
