A Conversation in the Evening
By Vicente Garcia Groyon. 1993 was a challenging year for the workshop—it had just been uprooted from Silliman University and renamed the National Summer Writers Workshop, running on assistance from various donors. The foundation established by alumni to continue the workshop was in its fledgling stage, and things were still up in the air at […]
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 […]
Fellows Take a Break for Group Photo at Writers Village
Fellows to the 50th Silliman University National Writers Workshop take a break for a group photo after the opening ceremonies held May 2 at the Mary Rose Lamb Sobrepeña Writers Village at Camp Lookout, Valencia. Each of them was formally introduced during the event. To read more, click: (1) background story: 50th SUNWW | (2) […]
Justice and Environment
Discussions on environmental issues in academic circles tend to focus on science and economics, leaving out the vital component of social justice. Linking social justice as a core issue in scholarly treatments of environmental protection and preservation has been comparably sparse. When we think of the environment, we think of natural resources: mountains, bodies of […]
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 […]
2 Fresh Grads Named Outstanding Students in Region 7
Two fresh graduates from Silliman University were named as among this year's Ten Outstanding Students in Region 7 (Central Visayas). The annual regional event entitles the awardees the chance to make it to the national-level search, the Top 10 Outstanding Students in the Philippines (TOSP), which holds its awarding ceremony at the Malacanan Palace with […]
Revised Alumni Homecoming Schedule of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop 50th Anniversary
All alumni of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop are encouraged to register with the Workshop Secretariat for logistics reasons. The registration details are as follows: Registration fee per person is P1,700 if you pre-register, or P2,200 if you register upon arrival. (If you are arriving after May 16, please email the Secretariat to arrange […]
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 […]
SUNWW Director-in-Residence Rowena Tiempo Torrevillas Announces the Names of Fellows to the 50th National Writers Workshop
Silliman University National Writers Workshop Director-in-Residence Rowena Tiempo-Torrevillas, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and Silliman University are pleased to announce that the following young writers have been accepted as fellows for the 50th Silliman University National Writers Workshop scheduled on 2-20 May 2011: For Poetry Charmaine Carreon (University of the Philippines-Diliman) Evangeline […]
