Lost Dreams
By Cherrie Sing My name is Cherrie Sing and I was a writing fellow at the 35th National Writers’ Workshop last 1996. Our batch holds the distinction for being the last batch Dr. Edilberto Tiempo handled before he passed away the same year. My Siliman workshop experience was something to cherish. My proudest moment […]
Born Again
By Rica Bolipata Santos I was born writing. Truly. I don’t mean this in a pretentious sort-of-way, intent to impress you with the inevitability of fate or destiny. It is simply the truth – having been born in a family where artistic pursuit was the highest value. We knew not how to be anything […]
Like Most Legends, This One Began with a Boat Trip
By Fidelito Cortes Ed Cabagnot and I went to the 1984 Silliman workshop on an inter-island boat. I don’t quite recall what sort of insane thought process went into this decision, but it can’t be denied that, on paper at least, a sea journey has a certain allure of adventure and arrival that a […]
Rev. Pia Reflects on Hebrew Bible at Summer Graduation
Rev. Jonathan Pia, Minister to the Parish of the Silliman University Church, was the speaker at the 2nd Summer School Baccalaureate and Commencement held May 15. There were 65 students who obtained their undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate degrees in the summer term of school year 2010-2011. A Sillimanian, Rev. Pia graduated from the Divinity School […]
The ABCs of COS, PMS and ES
Opinion/INTERAKSYON/TV 5 Online News 16-May-11, 2:25 PM | Leonor Magtolis Briones Understanding the alphabet soup in the bureaucracy Filipinos are fond of abbreviating long words and phrases into initials. However the meaning of these initials change when used in government. For example, “PMS” in popular parlance means “pre-menstrual syndrome. In government, it refers to the […]
A Priest in the Workshop
By Fr. Phil James Laquindanum I got accepted into the Silliman workshop in 1990, three years after my own stint at the UP workshop. I was a fellow for poetry. Being a young Catholic priest at the time, I felt somewhat of an oddity among writers. Thus, I was a bit shy, wary, and […]
Dr. Malayang Meets with Consul General in Chicago
Silliman University President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III (sixth from left) meets with Philippine Consul General to Chicago Leo Herrera-Lim (fifth from left) as part of his itinerary prepared by the Silliman Alumni International (SAI)-Chicago Chapter. Dr. Malayang was with Mrs. Gladys Rio-Malayang (fourth from left) and other members of the SAI-Chicago Chapter, headed by […]
How to Take a Walk on a Seawall
By Miro Capili We tried to write. We had positioned ourselves where our bodies would be able to cleave the wind, hoping perhaps to intercept what occult lore its salty tongues would carry; to entrap the utterances of the afternoon in free verse, realist fiction, villanelles, sci-fi, prose poetry. What precluded the wall, of […]
Meriendas With Mom Edith and Other Memories
By Chi Balmaceda Gutierrez. I was a part of that workshop of 1988-1989 which was held for an entire semester. My co-fellows then were the Soria-de Veyra brothers from Leyte, Vim Nadera, Mozart Pastrano, Cynthia Lopez-Dee, Jun Celmar, Tim Montes, among others. Each time Mom Edith had a literary session with us, which was usually […]
Grumble in the Jungle
By Alvin I. Dacanay One of the attractions of what is now known as the Silliman University National Writers Workshop—which celebrates its 50th year this month—for the Manila-based fellowship applicant is the chance to not only learn about the craft of writing from some of the country’s literary luminaries, but also to travel to some […]
