Following through on last week’s piece about the challenges faced by creative writers trying to make a living in this country, let me share some further thoughts on that topic that I wove into my ...

Going against the tide — or challenging and changing conventional wisdom, and opposing powerful forces — is what defending ...

Professional writing, or writing for money ... The last Filipino novelist who was shot for what he wrote was Jose Rizal; the only writers dying today are our journalists and broadcasters in ...

Jose Rizal's birth anniversary, we ensure that future generations of Filipinos will continue ... But he was most known for sparking the Philippine independence movement through his writings, most ...

Jose Rizal Park over the Oct ... a political activist whose writings inspired the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. The campaign later morphed into a decision to rename the ...

What possessed Rizal to write the sequel in such a peculiar way? From this point of view at least, El Filibusterismo was a much more enigmatic book than its predecessor. The puzzlement remained, until ...

Every country has a hero whose life has a lasting impact that spans centuries and connects the past and present with ...

A special day to commemorate a national hero or a historical event is important.  It is a day to remember the significance of ...

In an aim to encourage Filipinos to participate in art-making and appreciation, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) ...

Filipino writers come together at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature to honor the art of storytelling and ...

Filipino writers come together at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature to honor the art of storytelling and ...