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[Title] => 12 fellows named for inaugural Bangsamoro writers workshop
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[Title] => Writers in conversation
[Summary] => “How I Became a Writer” (2025), edited by California-based writer Cecilia Manguerra Brainard and published by Vibal Foundation under its World Nonfictions imprint, is a readable anthology composed of personal essays written by Filipino and Filipino American writers reflecting on their creative beginnings.
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[Title] => NY-based filmmaker Isabel Sandoval to meg another film in Philippines
[Summary] => Even before, Filipino screenwriter actor and director Isabel Sandoval, previously known as Vincent Sandoval, was geared for great recognition, especially after she moved to the US in 2005.
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[Title] => Cabinet reshuffle
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[Summary] => As part of its Independence Day celebration, the J. Amado Araneta Foundation asked me to give a talk on “The Writer as Liberator” last Saturday, and today being Jose Rizal’s birthday, I’m very happy to share some excerpts from that talk:
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[Title] => Mae Coyiuto blazes trail for PH-based authors
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[AuthorName] => Johanna L. Añes-De la Cruz
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[Title] => To the young writer
[Summary] => The late Mary Ruff Tagle, editor of the Saturday Mirror Magazine, asked me to write this
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[AuthorName] => F. Sionil Jose
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[Title] => Writer, kalbaryo na ang kabigatan ng buhay
[Summary] => Nabasa namin ang buong post ng isang kilala at mahusay na scriptwriter. Emosyonal ang kanyang post, nakapaloob du’n ang mga reyalisasyon ng buong bayan dahil sa lockdown, maraming pagbabagong naganap.
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[Title] => Literature and society
[Summary] => On the invitation of Shiela de Leon, literature teacher, I was at the University of Bulacan in Malolos last week speaking to students, some of whom I knew wanted to be writers.
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[Title] => The Vocation of Writing
[Summary] => I stumbled into writing when I was in sixth grade. I knew someone my age who had begun writing poems.
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[Title] => NY-based filmmaker Isabel Sandoval to meg another film in Philippines
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