Ian Rosales Casocot

Three of the country’s National Artists will be on hand to lead close to a hundred short story writers and poets in celebrating the...

“The past is not the past. The future doesn’t exist. It’s a made-up idea. Every mapping what we do of the future is a...

For Padmapani Perez I have often imagined meeting Alicia again, the woman Angelico swore would love him for the rest of his life. As if...

Catch the August 2023 issue of the Philippines Graphic Reader! Featuring: SHORT STORIES §  The Scent of Coconuts by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo §  Everything Taken Together Has the Weight...

"PUBLICATION IS THE FIRST HURDLE OF THE WRITER WHO WANTS THE PUBLIC TO READ HIS WORK. PUBLICATION IS THE FIRST LEVEL OF THE COMPETITION...

When she looks out the window from the second-floor apartment she is in, it strikes her that the blueness of the late afternoon sky over Los Angeles does not have the same familiar aquamarine comfort of home. How can the sky be so different here? And yet here it is: there is a cobalt deepness to the blue that makes it feel like a gigantic void closing in, and when she thinks about it deeply, she finds herself shivering a little.

The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, which staged its 70th edition after a two-year hiatus, recently held its annual ceremony to honor the...

In the very conservative, kyeme-filled Philippines, literary works don’t skim the hem of sexual propriety—or, to be more exact, the hem of non-sexual propriety....