Where I Was Most Myself
By Ginny Mata. What do you remember most about Dumaguete? What do you think this workshop has done for your writing? How do you think this workshop has impacted your life? I remember everything. I emailed one of my darling girls: “I, too, miss Dumaguete, but the longing for it ebbs away little by little, […]
Finding an Old Flame
By Gabriela Lee. I think I found myself in Dumaguete. I was lost before that, and I think I still am, after a fashion. But with the workshop, I’ve rediscovered my old flame—writing—and I’ve found that he was still as beautiful as ever. Sometimes, I still wonder if things would have turned out differently had […]
Neo-verse in My Universe
By Libay Linsangan Cantor. It was more than half a decade ago since I saw The Jojoes last—or anyone from Jologz4Evr—when they were here in the Philippines. Since getting married, they have visited Manila several times, but I always missed meeting them. It was only when I visited New York last 2010 when we finally […]
One Upon a Time in Dumaguete
By Cesar Ruiz Aquino. We were a very young college boy when we came to Dumaguete for the first time in the summer of 1962. We had absolutely no inkling, when we stepped down from the boat, that the town we were going to would eventually become our town. That in the years we would […]
