Day 5, Workshop Session 7: “Camera Obscura” ni Elio Garcia, Fellow sa Creative Nonfiction

Fellow: Elio Garcia Moderator: Luna Sicat Cleto “The narration of human relations are caught in slo-mo gloom, capturing granular change…and delicious discoveries of pain and loss.” Dr. Luna Sicat Cleto opened the session with high praise for Elio Garcia’s “Camera Obscura,” drawing attention to not just the readabilty and relatability of his prose, but its […]

Iskrapbuk ng Sumusubok Maging Manunulat ni Khristian Ross P. Pimentel

Iskrapbuk ng Sumusubok Maging Manunulat MAY PAGKA-ANTI-SOCIAL AKO, KAYA NANG MAY ISANG HINDI KO KAKILALA ang nag-message at friend request sa akin sa Facebook, hindi ko siya pinansin. Pero nagsend siya ulit at nagpakilalang estudyante sa PUP San Juan at iniimbitahan akong maging panauhing pandangal para sa kanilang pagdiriwang ng Buwang ng Panitikan.  Napakamot ako […]

Ang Hangganan ng Libaba ni Josh Paradeza

Ang Hangganan ng Libaba Lulubog ang Libaba at lalamunin ng dagat. Tinanong ako ng isang kaibigan, para sa isang proyekto, kung ano ang tingin kong bukas na hinaharap ng bayan ko at ‘yan ang unang bagay na isasagot. Ilang taon na ang nakalipas, nahanap ko ang isang mapa online na pwedeng mag-project ng kahahantungan ng […]

PAPER CHANDELIERS by Elio Garcia

PAPER CHANDELIERS THERE ARE TWO readers I discourage from picking up this book: those who want to be happy and those who are family and relatives. Books are expensive, time spent reading is luxury, and I write sad stories. Readers who want light stuff should skip my works—traumas, dysfunctional families, depression and anxiety, midlife crisis, […]

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