Alumni Hit Gold, Bronze in Vietnam Archery Grand Prix
Three alumni of Silliman University made the country proud after winning gold and bronze medals in the 2nd Asian Archery Grand Prix held late last month in Vietnam. Jennifer Chan and Joan Chan-Tabanag were two of three members of the Philippine Women’s archery team who received a gold medal each for the team event compound […]
Legends of the Clan
All families have stories that are passed from one generation to another. The beginnings of some clan stories go so far back in time they have become legends. So it is with the Magtolis clan. One of my favorite family legends is about the earliest Magtolis. My father used to say that one way of […]
Do-It-Yourself Dumaguete Diary
By Vim Nadera. Way back in 1988, while I was in the midst of my thesis writing for an M.A. in psychology, Dr. Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta offered me an alternative. She led me to a different direction. She recommended to the first Silliman University Semestral Writers Workshop. At first, it made me a bit […]
Drugged and Still Drugged
By F. Jordan Carnice . Sometime in the second week of May 2008, I baptized our batch “Katsubongs” without meaning to. Like what the other batches of the workshop did before us, the ritual of naming was just one of those customary but unwritten agreements for hilarity’s sake. But later on, as we braved one […]
Short But Sweet
By Mo Francisco. There’s only one thing that all fellows of the Dumaguete Workshop will agree on—some more wistfully than others: a summer in Dumaguete ends all too soon. That statement however holds the most truth for our batch. While other batches had three weeks, ours had to cram all our stories, forging of new […]
Online Registration of Alumni
The Secretariat of the 50th Silliman University National Writers Workshop would like to request all workshop alumni who will be visiting Dumaguete to please register online, even if you are coming a day or two late to the reunion week slated on May 16-20. They need the information of your coming for logistics purposes. (Your […]
Workshop Doodles
By May Tobias-Papa. Perhaps it is because I graduated with a degree in Fine Arts, and not Creative Writing, the terms, form, structure, motivation, tension, embodiment of a concept, objective correlative all sounded Greek to me, so I got lost. I forget whose poem this is, but most of the […]
Desirous Grace
By J. Neil C. Garcia. My experience of Dumaguete and the Writing Workshop is palimpsestic. After my own fellowship, back in 1990, I returned at least five other times, always around the same ardent season of the year. Each visit would evince its own textuality, and in my memory subsequent trips would write their own […]
Pieces of Dumaguete
By Nerisa del Carmen Guevara. Excerpts from The Mermaid Travels SUNDAY, MAY 1 The first day. I never liked planes. They never prepared me for leaving or arriving. Surrounded by a numbness of padded seats and sifted air, everything is static. No jolt of wheel on gravel and stone, or sound of water being […]
Images and Impressions
By Niccolo Vitug. Boxing Gloves The 42nd batch of the Silliman National Writers Workshop was called the Dumaguete Fight Club because we had boxing matches night after night, in 2003. Not all of us participated, though; there were those who hung out with panelists for nightly cocktails, and there were those who stayed in their rooms […]
