A new book on Naga will be launched on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, 3 pm at SM Naga’s 2nd floor Atrium. “The Naga We Know” is the sixth in Anvil’s series on Philippine cities that have featured Manila, Baguio, Davao, Dumaguete and Cebu. The editors state that when Anvil’s city series first came out, they … Continue reading
Pagsasalin(g) sa Panitikang Bikol Binasa bilang bahagi ng panel sa UMPILAN I: Panitikang Bikol na ginanap sa Natividad Galang Fajardo (NGF) Conference Room, Gusaling Horacio De La Costa ng Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila noong Enero 28, 2013. Ang UMPILAN ay serye ng mga panayam hinggil sa mga panitikan ng Filipinas na inorganisa ng Unyon ng … Continue reading
Writing about Magarao always, Luis Cabalquinto, in a sense, really never left home. But if we reckon by geographical distance, then the poet has been away and will be home this March from the United States. As with any homecoming, two feasts await Cabalquinto. His book Tignarakol will be launched on March 22, 2013, 1 … Continue reading
Kristian Sendon Cordero, faculty member of Social Sciences Department and head of the Literary Division of the Ateneo Center for Culture and the Arts, is one of the recipients of the Ten Outstanding Bikol Artists for 2013. The awarding rites was held on February 27, 2013 in Legazpi City, Albay. Governor Joey Salceda chaired the … Continue reading
We are soliciting works for Bakong Labot Suba: Sanggatos Na Rikas-Osip. This anthology of Bikolano Sudden Fiction is the first in a four-part series on contemporary Bikol writing. We are anticipating prose pieces within the limit of a hundred words but engaging the discursive of the idiomatic expression, bakong labot suba, which can be rendered … Continue reading
UPDATED, Feb. 2, 2013–The first edition of the Umpilan, a monthly forum on Philippine regional writing featured Bikol literature last Jan. 28, 2013 at the Natividad Galang Fajardo (NGF) Conference Room, Horacio de la Costa Hall, Ateneo de Manila University. Panelists Prof. Kristian Sendon Cordero of the Ateneo de Naga University and Dr. Jazmin Llana … Continue reading
Idaraos ng Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) ang kauna-unahang “Umpilan”, ang serye ng mga panayam hinggil sa mga panitikan ng Filipinas, sa pagtalakay sa lagay at tunguhin ng panitikang Bikol, sa Enero 28, 2013, 4:30 pm, sa Natividad Galang Fajardo (NGF) Conference Room, Gusaling Horacio De La Costa ng Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila. … Continue reading
Kalatas: Philippine Literature, Culture, and Ideas 