writing

One day, toward the end of 1967, National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera sat down to look critically at the state of Philippine literature...

Apart from the must-see main features, the Virgin Labfest (VLF) continues to expand its offerings with stripped-down reading performances of selected scripts from the...

ONLY the very naive or the very cynical would try to predict the future course of Philippine literature. There are only the weekly magazines or the occasional books as signposts to indicate trends, and these signposts do not give very coherent directions.

Now and in the foreseeable future, all that the Filipino doing literature should aim for is to create in the context of the multicultural...

Reflections on "narrative—the only art that exists in all human cultures." Human supremacy may be the product of technology, but technology is, in turn, the...

The Virgin Labfest (VLF), the theater festival of untried, untested, and unstaged one-act plays, is now accepting applications for its Writing Fellowship Program (WFP)....

Manila, Philippines (April 2026) — At a time when writing is increasingly outsourced to platforms and prompts, NextUp PH is returning the focus to...

APRIL 2026 PGLW IS NOW CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS! QUICK FACTS:- Philippines Graphic Literary Workshop (PGLW) is a series of writing workshops. The upcoming April episode...

How do you stay present to your unique experience of the world? And how do you transform that experience into something that heals and...

75 years of storytelling, one enduring legacy The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Palanca Awards) has set a new benchmark with the celebration of...