Christian George Acevedo, 32, is a librarian, teacher, writer, and cultural advocate in his hometown of Roxas City in Capiz. He has released a collection of Capisnon folk stories and has edited a book about traditional dishes of the...

Biñan, LAGUNA—Some 18,636 junior public high school students in Biñan City are the latest beneficiaries of the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards-Local Government Unit (NJLA-LGU) Advocacy for English and Literature project. With Biñan City Government as one of its LGU partners,...

A prime exponent of Philippine literature, the Philippines Graphic has held the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards for 29 years. The NJLA annually awards the best short fiction and poetry published in its literary section. It is a testament to...

Three women took home the bacon at the 2018 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards on Sept. 25. Business writer and novelist VJ Campilan took first prize, a medal and certificate, and a P50,000.00 cash prize for her story “The Visitation,”...

To the young ones be the glory: This year’s winners of the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards were all young writers with long writing careers ahead of them, a hint, perhaps, that the late National Artist for Literature and Philippines Graphic editor-in-chief...

Over time, the images fade; the pages turning brown with age. Pile after pile of magazines gather dust in a narrow stockroom, its load of news and features forgotten. In the world of the internet, old newspapers and magazines make...

  First Prize                                    A TROPICAL WINTER’S TALE  (Oct. 29, 1990) By Charlson Ong    Second Prize                                    THE WEEK OF THE WHALES  (Nov. 12, 1990)                     By Leoncio P. Deriada                Third Prize                                    THE LAST STORY  (Oct. 15,...

The winners of the 2017 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards have been selected by the contest’s panel of judges, Alfred Yuson (panel chair), Susan Lara and Sarge Lacuesta. The winning stories are: “Mathilde’s Absence” by Christian Ray Bautista (first prize), which...

September is a special time for literature in the Philippines, when the Philippines Graphic holds its annual Nick Joaquin Literary Awards (NJLA). As the country’s oldest and only weekly magazine of national circulation, the Graphic holds the distinction of being...