The result is out.Filipino author Miguel Syjuco was named winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel Ilustrado, a fictional account of a young Filipino caught within a notorious scandal spanning over the Philippine history. The panel of judges for ...
I arrived in Washington DC, with a hangover in tow, a little past five in the afternoon yesterday. Together with other international writers, I went straight to a party hosted by Sandy Barkan, an extraordinary woman who was instrumental in saving the International Writing Program when it was under threat of being ...
In October there has been a lot of discussion about sexual position -being top or bottom- becoming a major, if not the sole, deciding factor in dating someone. The argument went further because for most gay men they felt degraded by the thought of being reduced to either being ...
In a Chicago forum two weeks ago, the general opinion was that international writers were expected to write in their national language to be called 'authentic.' Because I don't want to be called a Knorr-chicken-cube writer, I attempted to write in Bisaya -the language of my beloved city- for the very ...
Peace education is such a dynamic subject to teach at the university.
Chiza approached me for help to update the syllabus given to her by her superiors at Bukidnon State University over the break. One night we missed a favorite TV show just to gather and review the syllabi and lesson plans ...
