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Youth-led NGO promotes child literacy in underserved communities through The Book Cradle Project

Many local communities in the Philippines, especially in remote areas, face significant challenges due to limited access to proper literature and education. The COVID-19...

The Asian Rights Fair-Manila Returns For Its Second Edition, Urging Stronger Regional Ties In Publishing

Manila, Philippines – The National Book Development Board (NBDB), the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP), and Primetrade Asia, Inc. opened the second Asian...

Imagination Peoples the Air: PH Brings Unique Narratives to the Biggest Global Book Fair

Manila, September 4, 2025 – Over 400 Philippine delegates—official and independent authors, illustrators, artists, creatives, and publishers—will travel to Frankfurt, filling the halls of...

Nominations Are Now Open For The 43rd National Book Awards

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Filipino Critics Circle (FCC) are now accepting nominations for the 43rd National Book...

Virgin Labfest Writing Fellowship Program in the Visayas Year 4 Now Accepting Applications

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), through its Artist Training Division, in partnership with The Performance Laboratory, Inc., is pleased to announce the...

Multi-Awarded Writer Irene Sarmiento Makes History As First Filipino Author At Germany’s White Ravens Festival 

Irene Sarmiento, award-winning writer of children’s book Tabon Girl and young adult novel Stray Cats, is the first author from the Philippines to be invited to this year’s...

Works of local authors to be translated into English under the National Book Development Board’s Translation Subsidy Program

QUEZON CITY, Philippines — THE National Book Development Board (NBDB) announces the 20 grantees selected for its Translation Subsidy Program (TSP)  this year “for...

Of Labor & Literature

It is a tale of conflict as old as societies and governments. In the age of antiquity, it was between master and slave. During...

Of Labor & Literature

It is a tale of conflict as old as societies and governments. In the age of antiquity, it was between master and slave. During...

The State of Philippine Literature in the time of pandemic

Delivered during the1st Philippines Graphic webinar on Literature—"How's your Soul Quotient? The state of Philippine Literature in the time of pandemic," November 30, 2020 In...