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PEN Holds Teaching Literature Workshop in Cagayan de Oro

The Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists) will hold “For Love of the Word:  Workshops on Teaching Philippine Literature in High School and College” on August 12 (Monday), from 8:30 to 4:30 pm, at the University Conference Hall, Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental. Award-winning writers and professors of literature Ricardo de Ungria and Timothy Montes will be the resource speakers/facilitators. As a component of PEN International’s Beacon Centre Programme, this project is part of the series of teacher-training workshops organized by the Philippine Center across the country. It seeks to enhance the skills of literature teachers in both secondary and tertiary levels, especially on the teaching of poetry, fiction, and drama by Filipino authors. Previous workshops were held in Manila, Iloilo, Cebu, Baguio, Naga, and Bohol. This workshop is co-hosted by Capitol University, and supported by PEN International in London and the S

Aristos | Anacbanua | Pangasinan PEN

Kada bansa a walaan na mabilay tan mabunan litiratura et walaan met na tatawagen a literary movements: romanticism, transcendentalism, realism, symbolism, surrealism, dadaism, postmodernism, magical realism, new formalism, beat, tan arum ni’ran ism a nipaakar ed kuritan ono litiratura. Dia’d Filipinas, say ‘propaganda movement’ no iner kabiangan si palbayanin Jose P. Rizal, Veronicans nen 1930s, Ravens nen 1950s (kabiangan ira di Adrian Cristobal, Virginia Moreno, Alejandrino Hufana, Andres Cristobal Cruz, Hilario Francia Jr., tan arum ni’ra), say Bagay poets na Ateneo nen 1960s (Rolando Tinio, Bienvenido Lumbera, Jose Lacaba, tan Edgar Alegre), tan say Philippine Literary Arts Council nen 1980s (Gemino H. Abad, Cirilo Bautista, Alfrredo Navarro Salanga, Ricardo de Ungria, tan Alfred Yuson). Saraya so ulupan da’ra’y sumusulat tan umaanlong kaiba met la’ra’y wala ‘ra’d rihion ya anibokel na kuritan ed lapag a bansa. Dia’d luyag tayo, tinugyop nen Pablo Mejia so Awaran na Pangasinan n

Famous Advice on Writing

writing lit Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Sontag Joan Didion Ray Bradbury Kurt Vonnegut George Orwell Susan Orlean Walter Benjamin Henry Miller Anais Nin David Ogilvy Isabel Allende Stephen King H. P. Lovecraft Malcolm Cowley John Steinbeck Herbert Spencer E. B. White Mary Karr Ann Patchett Mary Gordon Joseph Conrad Margaret Atwood David Foster Wallace Neil Gaima The collected wisdom of great writers , including Vonnegut, Hemingway, Didion, Sontag, Fitzgerald, Orwell, Kerouac, Atwood, Steinbeck, and more: