In his acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize banquet in 1954, which the American ambassador to Sweden at the time read in his behalf, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “Writing at best is a lonely life.”
It’s ironic that in order to connect with the world, a writer has to be alone through torturous...
MASTER CAT Puss in the Boots, a fictional character in the fairy tale of the same name, which in French is Le Maître Chat ou le chat botté—retold by Charles Perrault in Contes de ma mère l'oye
One is moved to write by the force of other people’s writing more than by the forces of nature,...
A House bill (HB) seeking to promote the country’s indigenous writing systems was unanimously approved on third and final reading Monday afternoon, Nov. 28.
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With 251 "yes" votes, zero "no" votes, and zero abstentions, HB No.6069 finally hurdled the...
PHL Post Office urges students to participate in the UPU Letter Writing Contest
The Philippine Post Office (PHLPost) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU), through the International Bureau, invites youth ages nine to 15 to join its 51st International Letter Writing Competition for Young...
Nominations for KWF Dangal ng Panitikan 2022 up until Feb. 24
The country's official regulating body of the Filipino language, Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF) is once again on a hunt for this year’s most outstanding institution or writer who would receive the “Gawad Dangal ng...
India women journalists take the spotlight in a male-dominated field
A CALLING Suneeta works as a journalist
We got to see the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award winner, Writing with Fire, one of 15 feature documentaries shortlisted at...
AVANT GARDENER
Yvette Tan
Last December 2021, I was honored to be asked to talk about digital storytelling in ATI (Agriculture Training Institute) Region 4A’s Techno Gabay Program.
I spoke about how we started, grew, and continue to maintain Agriculture.com.ph, which is a trusted online...
The second time I met F. Sionil José or Manong Frankie, as he would like to be called, I took home three things: books, enriching stories, and invaluaAble writing tips.
THE ART OF WAR AND LIFE National Artist Manong Frankie in his study at Solidaridad Bookstore (Noel Pabalate)
Back then,...
IT’S ALWAYS A GOOD TIME Andy Warhol (leftmost) and DianaVreeland (second to the right) in Studio 54
I’m not exactly in the mood to baby-sit my inner child, but it’s Christmas Eve and on the tree the little stars are a-twinkle and at its feet the gifts demand I recall how I used to have my...
There might be formulas, techniques, or tricks in writing. But every time you buckle down to write, you start from zero
BLEED WORDS Leonid Pasternak's 19th century painting The Throes of Creation
It’s a complicated thing, writing is. All you need is the truth, but it’s hard to do. No...
A Grade 12 student of the Philippine Science High School-Western Visayas Campus (PSHS-WVC) emerged as Grand Prize winner in the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Tropical Medicine and Public Health (SEAMEO TROPMED) Network 55th Founding Anniversary Essay Contest.
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Memoir writing batch 2 with Dr. Oscar Penaranda
“Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past,” wrote Patricia Hempl. Studies have established a co-relation between writing about experiences, particularly stressful ones, and improved...
