Day 5 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 12: Burador ng sinumpaang salaysay ng pag-uurong ng demanda
SESSION 12: Burador ng sinumpaang salaysay ng pag-uurong ng demanda Fellow: Adelle Liezl Chua (Fiction, Filipino) Panelist: Rolando B. Tolentino Ang huling sesyon ng 9th ALBWW ay sinimulan sa pagpapakilala sa poetika ni Adelle Chua. Marami at iba-iba ang kaniyang naging mga trabaho; mula sa NGOs, private companies, at hanggang sa government work. Sinubukan niya […]
64th UPNWW Graduation Ceremonies
Response from the Fellows Rayji de Guia I submitted my draft to the workshop as a woman writing about women, particularly lesbians, in Maragondon, which in my story is Mayabo. As the beginning of the workshop neared, I was conscious of my participation as a woman, with three other women fellows that I was very […]
Day 5 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 11: The Weakest Assumption
SESSION 11: The Weakest Assumption Fellow: Sievney Klyze G. Quidet (Poetry, English, Cebuano) Moderator: Rex Sandro Nepomuceno Rex Nepomuceno framed The Weakest Assumption through the notion of “uncreative writing”—to reinvent writing not through creation, but derivation, thus challenging commonly held conceptions on authorship, artistic inspiration, and organic unity. Quidet’s collection put this to practice through […]
Day 4 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 10: After archive
SESSION 10: After archive Fellow: RJ Ledesma (Poetry, English) Moderator: Luna Sicat Cleto Of Ledesma’s After archive, Luna Sicat Cleto put forward that the key to understanding the collection is the combination of the words: “after” and “archive.” She praised its sharp, newer approach to documenting activist work, deviating from the commonly masculine tropes of […]
Day 4 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 9: Kontra-Koda: Mga Tula at Awit
SESSION 9: Kontra-Koda: Mga Tula at Awit Fellow: Lance Romulus S. Dayrit (Poetry, Filipino) Moderator: Vladimeir Gonzales Mga aral sa pagsasalin sa panahon ng ligalig ang naging bungad ni Dr. Vladimeir Gonzales sa ik-siyam na sesyon ng 9th Amelia Lapena Bonifacio Writers Workshop. Sa kaniyang lektyur na “Ang Pagsusulat Bilang Pagsasalin Bilang Pagbuo ng Daigdig”, […]
Day 3 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 8: Sandaang (100) Survey Forms
SESSION 8: Sandaang (100) Survey Forms Fellow: Jayson Visperas Fajardo (Novel, English, Filipino) Panelist: Laurence Marvin Castillo To preface the session on Sandaang (100) Survey Forms, Laurence Castillo discussed how the novel, as genre, contains many dynamic, democratic possibilities; in its ability to accommodate diversity in voices, registers, and modalities, it challenges the authorial voice […]
Day 3 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 7: Pabaon-Pasalubong (Mula sa Laguna)
SESSION 7: Pabaon-Pasalubong (Mula sa Laguna) Fellow: Patrice Noan R. Rosales (Fiction, Filipino) Moderator: Luchie Maranan Maikling talambuhay ni Patrice Noan R. Rosales ang salubong ni Luchie Maranan sa ika-pitong sesyon ng 9th Amelia Lapena Bonifacio Writers Workshop. Ipinostura ni Luchie ang pag-unlad ni Patrice at ng kaniyang proyektong Pabaon-Pasalubong (Mula sa Laguna) sa kinalakhang […]
Day 3 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 6: With no Exit Wounds and other poems
SESSION 6: With no Exit Wounds and other poems Fellow: Benj Gabun Sumabat (Poetry, English) Moderator: Ramon Guillermo Ramon Guillermo opened the session with praise for Sumabat’s With No Exit Wounds and Other Poems: while it derives from a deeply personal, confessional mode, they are able to address structural issues such as disability and care […]
Day 3 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 5: Isang Kaibigan A Friend一个朋友
SESSION 5: Isang Kaibigan A Friend 一个朋友 Fellow: Wendrei Brent Orquiola (Fiction, Filipino) Panelist: Bonifacio Ilagan Mala-house plenary hearing session ang pagbubukas ni Bonifacio Ilagan sa ikalimang sesyon ng 9th Amelia Lapena Bonifacio Writers Workshop. Bilang panimula, pabirong kinumpirma ni Ka Boni ang ilang mga fact sa buhay ng fellow na si Wendrei Brent Orquiola […]
Day 2 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 4: Exsena sa Backstage
SESSION 4: Exsena sa Backstage Fellow: Charles Julian Gollayan (Hypertext, One-act Play) Moderator: Rex Sandro Nepomuceno Binuksan ni Rex Nepomuceno ang ika-apat na sesyon ng ika-9 Amelia Lapena Bonifacio Writers Workshop sa isang maikling lektyur hinggil drag performances sa lente ng gender, performance, at dramaturgy. Aniya, mahalaga ang pagkilatis sa presentasyon, representasyon, at substitusyon ng […]
Day 2 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 3: The Square Root of Struggle and other Examinations
SESSION 3: The Square Root of Struggle and other Examinations Fellow: Joseph Eli Occeño (Poetry, English) Moderator: Luchie Maranan In tracing Occeño’s creative process for The Square Root of Struggle and other Examinations, Luchie Maranan cited two complex aspects of the writer’s background: 1) his having been born a part of the landowning, feudal class […]
Day 2 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 2: Dayuhan (kurtina, sa gate, aso, amah, pansit)
SESSION 2: Dayuhan (kurtina, sa gate, aso, amah, pansit) Fellow: Victoria Mae D. Cuevas (Fiction, Filipino) Panelist: Rica Palis Sa pagpapakilala kay Victoria Mae D. Cuevas (Vee), ang pinakabatang fellow ng ika-9 na Amelia Lapena Bonifacio Writers Workshop, binuksan ni Rica Palis ang ikalawang sesyon ng palihan. Binigyang pansin niya ang kapangahasan at paninindigan ng […]
Day 2 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 1: Variations on Disquiet and Rage
SESSION 1: Variations on Disquiet and Rage Fellow: Rhanydell Bien Baysa (Poetry, English) Moderator: Luna Sicat Cleto To introduce Rhanydell Baysa’s Variations on Disquiet and Rage, Luna Sicat Cleto pointed out how the work’s themes of liminality, invisibility, and the mapping of different landscapes and geographies are deepened by the multi-cultural, nomadic positionality of the […]
DAY 1, 9th Amelia Lapeña Bonifacio Workshop
During the orientation of the fellows for the 9th Amelia Lapeña Bonifacio Writers Workshop, ICW staff PB Marana drew attention to the symbolic signifiance of the workshop taking place one week before the anniversary of the 1972 Martial Law declaration. The workshop’s avant theme of “Politikal-Experimental na Texto” was reckoned with, as fellows and panelists […]
9th Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Writers Workshop Fellows
We’re delighted to welcome twelve (12) remarkable writers to the 9th Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Writers Workshop. The 9th ALBWW seeks works and texts that provide experimentation in the form and content of conventional genres, incorporating newer realities of the everyday use of individuated technologies, algorithms in the dissemination of information–even when fake–as social construction of […]
Meet the workshop director and panelists of the 9th Amelia Lapena Bonifacio Writers Workshop
The Workshop Director of the Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Writers Workshop (ALBWW) leads the overall vision, planning, and execution of the workshop. They oversee the selection of fellows and panelists, design the program flow, and facilitate the sessions with the goal of fostering meaningful literary exchange. As the primary convener, the director ensures that the workshop upholds […]
Walang Aray: Ang Muling Pagtindig at Pag-ibig
Nagbabalik ang Walang Aray ng PETA, na parang isang liham ng pagmamahal. Sa pusong di takot umibig, nagbabalik ang Walang Aray ng PETA upang ipaalala sa atin na sa kabila ng sakit at pasakit, sa pananatiling tumitindig sa bawat dagok, laging may tamis, ginahawa, at lubos na kaligayahang hatid; ganito ang himig ng nasabing dulang […]
Day 6, Workshop Session 12: No One to Deliver You by Jade Capiñanes, Fellow in Novella
Fellow: Jade Mark Capiñanes Moderator: Charlson Ong “In literature, evil is always more interesting. You must be interesting and engaging before anything else.” Dr. Charlson Ong prefaced the session on Jade Capiñanes’ No One to Deliver You with a discussion on the novella-in-progress’ chief concern—the question of virtue, as conceived of in modern (mainly online) […]
Day 6, Workshop Session 11: Approximations by Krysta Lee Frost, Fellow in Poetry
Fellow: Krysta Lee Frost Moderator: J. Neil Garcia “We need to remind ourselves that what is true in poetry isn’t the same as what is real: it is not circumscribed by what can be experienced; it’s only limit is what can be imagined or dreamed.” In his introduction to Frost’s Approximations, Dr. J. Neil Garcia […]
Day 6, Workshop Session 10: Mga Dili Nato Masinggit sa Lapyahan by Laurence Lanurias, Fellow in Poetry
Fellow: Laurence Lanurias Moderator: Romulo Baquiran, Emmanuel Dumlao Ipinakilala ni Dr. Romulo Baquiran, Jr. ang pinakabatang fellow ng 64th UP National Writers’ Workshop, si Laurence Lanurias, BA Literature student mula sa Cebu Technological University. Ibinungad niya ang modernong estilo ng panulaan ni Lanurias na orihinal na isinulat sa Cebuano at isinalin niya rin mismo sa […]
PROBLEMATIC AND INCREDIBLY FLAWED by Jade Mark Capiñanes
Over the past few years I’ve grown increasingly suspicious of what fiction is doing to people. Not just readers, but writers too, who are supposed to know better. Much of the work I come across these days seems to be almost imperceptibly organizing itself around a new kind of consensus: that a good story is […]
Through Sickness and Health by Krysta Lee Frost
Years ago, I was diagnosed with a mental health disorder with which I no longer identify. At the time, it felt like a gift. I was in my early twenties, and had only recently come to terms with the impacts of a life split between the Philippines and the United States as a mixed race […]
TO A POETICS OF THE BAYOT: ON RESTRAINT IN POETRY by Laurence P. Lanurias
AS A YOUNG AND emerging poet, I always hear from my seniors who know the craft of poetry writing better than I that a poem is never defined by how loudly it speaks but by how much it leaves unsaid. But as a bayot who grew up learning to mute the shape of his desire […]
Day 5, Workshop Session 9: “Tiyak sa Maraming Pero” ni Khristian Ross Pimentel, Fellow sa Sanaysay
Fellow: Khristian Ross Pimentel Moderators: Cris R. Lanzaderas, Vladimeir Gonzales Sinimulan ang sesyon sa pagpapakilala ni Dr. Vladimeir Gonzales at Prop. Cris Lanzaderas kay Khristian “Koko” Pimentel bilang kapwa guro at manunulat. Para kay Prop. Lanzaderas, dalawang ideya ang naging angat sa sanaysay. Una, “walang OJT sa pagiging tatay”– pasilip sa daigdig ni Pimentel, mundo […]
Day 5, Workshop Session 8: “Alas kwatro ng hapon, ‘pag ‘di na mainit” ni Alec Joshua Paradeza, Fellow sa Maikling Kuwento
Fellow: Alec Joshua Paradeza Moderator: Victor Emmanuel Carmelo D. Nadera Jr. Sa isang maikling kasaysayan ng science at speculative fiction sinimulan ni Dr. Vim Nadera ang ikawalong sesyon ng UP National Writers’ Workshop. Mula sa Liwayway magazine hanggang sa nobelang Doktor Kuba (1933) ni Dr. Fausto J. Galauran, mga komiks ni Mars Ravelo, at sa […]
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, […]
64th UP National Writers’ Worskhop Extension Lectures: The Filipino Writer and the Meaning of Solidarity
Workshop director Dr. Ramon Guillermo opened with reframing the concept of the extension lecture through Brazilian theorist Paulo Friere’s “Extension or Communication?”, which described the former as staunchly unilateral and perhaps harmful in its imposition. To counter this, he highlighted the event’s theme of literature and solidarity, hoping for proactive audience participation. Lecture 1 […]
Day 3, Workshop Session 6: “Tseklist Para Sa Pagtakas” ni Adelle Liezl Chua, Fellow sa Sanaysay
Fellow: Adelle Liezl Chua Moderator: Eugene Y. Evasco Sinimulan ni Dr. Eugene Evasco ang workshop session sa maikling presentasyon ukoll sa tunguhin ng malikhaing sanaysay sa Filipino. Binaybay niya ito mula sa pre-dominantly clerical na simulain patungo sa mga mas modernong konsepsiyon. Kabilang dito ang paglawak ng hangganan ng kung ano ang “personal” na makikita […]
Day 3, Workshop Session 5: “Two Stories” by Macoy Tang, Fellow for Short Story
Fellow: Macoy Tang Moderator: Jun Cruz Reyes “Ano ang panitikan sa panahon ng multimedia?” In introducing Macoy Tang’s two stories—“TraQer” and “Malacañang Dwende Tells All”—Dr. Jun Cruz Reyes prefaced the session with a pertinent question. Due to the apparent influence of Internet culture and the digital age on Tang’s works, he first reflected on how […]
Day 3, Workshop Session 4: “Dugo sa Bagwis ng Anghel” ni Ronnel Talusan, Fellow sa Nobela
Fellow: Ronnel Talusan Moderator: Will P. Ortiz Binuksan ang ikatlong araw ng ika-64 UP National Writers’ Workshop sa pagtalakay ng nobela ni Ronnel Talusan na “Dugo sa Bagwis ng Anghel” sa pangunguna ni Dr. Will P. Ortiz. Ipinakilala ni Dr. Ortiz ang “dugo” bilang primaryang talinhaga ng nobela ni Talusan. Inilarawan niya ang kabalintunaan ng […]
Superpowers sa tunay na buhay ni Adelle Liezl Chua
Superpowers sa tunay na buhay Kumbinsido ako noon na mayroon akong lihim na kapangyarihan. Kapag tinititigan ko kasi ang isang bagay na naaarawan, hindi magtatagal, ito ay malililiman. Walang palya – kailangan ko lang bumilang hanggang lima, at sigurado pa sa pagsikat ng araw na titigil ang pagsikat ng araw sa bagay na aking […]
Panel and Paragraph by Macoy Tang
Panel and Paragraph I write (and occasionally draw) comics, a much-maligned and tragically misunderstood medium. Yes, medium. Specifically, I write komiks, our even more maligned, even less understood local subspecies. I work in words and images–not like in a storybook, where the latter merely decorates the former, but rather in such a way that the […]
Kumikiwal na Dugo ni Ronnel V. Talusan
Kumikiwal na Dugo Paborito kong gamitin sa mga isinusulat ko ang dugo. Pakiramdam ko’y nakalilikha ako ng pintig ng buhay gamit ang salita, simbolo at talinghaga ng dugo. Hindi ko alam kung bakit sobrang lakas ng dating sa akin ng salitang dugo kahit na kapag nababasa ko ito sa mga akda. Klaseng obsesyon. Siguro’y dahil […]
Day 2, Workshop Session 3: “Vestments” by Rayji de Guia, fellow for Novel
Fellow: Rayji de Guia Moderator: Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. On his first reading of “Vestments,” Dr. Butch Dalisay noted, “Not my thing, but good.” During the workshop session, he echoed the same sentiment in pointing out the remarkable contrast between him—an old, self-admittedly grumpy, and straight man—and de Guia, who is young and queer. However, […]
Day 2, Workshop Session 2: “The Prodigal Daughters” ni Arnel Mardoquio, fellow sa Dulang Pampelikula
Fellow: Arnel Mardoquio Moderator: Rolando B. Tolentino Ipinosisyon ni Dr. Rolando B. Tolentino ang iskrip ni Arnel Mardoquio sa pelikulang “The Prodigal Daughters” sa continuum ng indie cinema. Binaybay ni Dr. Tolentino ang iba’t ibang panahon ng pag-angat at pagkalugmok ng sine Filipino at pinagtibay ang mga tagumpay na nakamit ng indipendiyenteng sine: mga likhang […]
Day 2, Workshop Session 1: “Another Hope Entirely” by Kara Danielle Medina, fellow for Creative Nonfiction
Fellow: Kara Danielle Medina Moderator: Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo “Creative nonfiction must not simply be honest; it must also be artful.” In introducing Kara Danielle Medina and her essay “Another Hope Entirely,” Dr. Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo emphasized artfulness as precisely the quality that separates creative nonfiction from journalism. One of the most important characteristics of the […]
Day 2: Welcome Remarks and Expectations Setting
Binuksan ang ikalawang araw ng ika-64 UP National Writers’ Workshop (UPNWW) ni Dr. Vladimeir B. Gonzales, Direktor ng Likhaan: UP Institute of Creative Writing (UP ICW). Nagpasalamat siya sa mga naging partner ng Likhaan sa siklong ito ng palihan: Ang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Los Baños Department of Humanities, ang Baden Powell International Makiling, at ang […]
Still Unspoken: Writing about and to Women by Rayji de Guia
Still Unspoken: Writing about and to Women For most of my life. I spoke very little—especially to my family. I couldn’t socialize with the same ease as my sisters, to whom, I believed, being social came naturally. Because of my mental illnesses, I was hardly awake most of the time, staying asleep beyond normal hours […]
Binisayang Dinabaw Ang Mga Salitang Dumadapo Sa Aking Dila ni Arnel Mardoquio
Binisayang Dinabaw Ang Mga Salitang Dumadapo Sa Aking Dila. Ang lahat ng aking screenplays ay aking isinalin sa Filipino para matanggap ko ang mga pondong pamproduksiyon na nagmumula sa sentrong Maynila. Samakatwid, ang wikang Filipino ay pangtransaksiyon, hindi natural na wika sa akin. Ang The Prodigal Daughter screenplay ay sinulat ko sa wikang Filipino pero […]
Oceans: A Ponderance of My Poetics by Kara Danielle Medina
Oceans: A Ponderance of My Poetics There is an end to it. The ocean, with its size and story, its brilliant deep blue and unceasing current — I cannot see it, and I don’t know where it is, but somewhere and somehow it ends at a shore. On a beach. In a port. It is […]
MEET THE WORKSHOP DIRECTOR AND PANELIST OF THE 64TH UP NATIONAL WRITERS WORKSHOP!
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP DIRECTOR Ramon GuillermoRamon Guillermo is a writer, activist, translator, and scholar of Southeast Asian Studies. He is a proponent of digital humanities and is interested in human-computer literary interfaces. He is the director of the UP Center for International Studies. ABOUT THE PANELISTSCharlson OngCharlson […]