The 2012 Conference of the Philippine Center for International PEN (Poets, Essayists and Novelists) unleashed a barrage of issues, subthemes, papers, points for discussion, opinions, questions and answers closely or loosely connected with the main theme: “The Writer as Public Intellectual.”
You will now be punished with the keynote speech I gave on Palanca Awards night this September.
The National Book Development Board (NBDB) is calling on authors with manuscripts for books to apply for the National Book Development Trust Fund Grant for 2013.
Award-winning fictionist Susan S. Lara has been appointed director-in-residence of the 52nd Silliman University National Writers Workshop by Silliman president Ben S. Malayang III upon the recommendation of the advisory board of the Edilberto and Edith Tiempo Creative Writing Center through its coordinator, Ian Rosales Casocot.
The 52nd edition of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop is slated to start on May 6 May at the Rose Lamb Sobrepeña Writers Village in Camp Look-out, Valencia, Negros Oriental.
In this age of instant communication, I attract attention every time I attend a presscon with mostly young media people in attendance.
I’m a third year college student taking a business-related course. I used to love my course in the beginning, until I discovered my passion for writing. I think I can’t love two things at the same time. I can’t give up taking the business course, and I’m afraid my passion for writing will soon fade away.
“The Children’s Crusade” (Scribner), by Ann Packer Ann Packer’s new novel tells the story of a family set against...
The Silliman University National Writers Workshop is extending its deadline for applications for the 53rd National Writers Workshop to Jan. 31.
The question seems to me to imply that one is either missed or suspected of indolence or, worse, of mischief. In any case, only Margaret Mitchell, by the sheer force of her personality and literary stature, could get away, so majestically, with her reply: “Doing? It’s a full-time job to be the author of ‘Gone With the Wind.’”
