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Literary

Hushed Christmas in Saudi Arabia

December 2012 was one of the saddest, if not the saddest, Christmases I had ever “celebrated.” It was a fairly uneventful holiday—we had barely put...

2 UST professors, CFAD grad bag nat’l book awards

TWO Thomasian faculty members and an alumnus from the College of Fine Arts and Design (CFAD) reaped prizes in the 41st National Book Awards. Assoc....

3 Thomasian writers win in 71st Palanca Awards

THREE Thomasian writers earned prizes in the 71st edition of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the longest-running literary contest in the Philippines. Former...

UST CCWLS relaunches 13 titles in ‘Redux’

COMING BACK from the pandemic that barred in-person events, the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (CCWLS) relaunched 13 titles of its...

UST CCWLS to award first writing fellowships in 2024

THE UNIVERSITY’s Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (CCWLS) has launched the UST Writing Fellowship, which will replace the UST National Writers’ Workshop.  The...

Use experiences, challenges to find voice in writing – Thomasian author

AUTHORS can draw from the challenges they have faced and other experiences to find their “voice” in writing, a Thomasian author said in a...

Creative writing program head wins in 2022 Gintong Aklat Award

THE head of UST’s Creative Writing program won the Best Creative Nonfiction in Filipino plum at the 2022 Gintong Aklat Awards on Sept. 14...

UST Publishing House launches 10 new titles at Manila int’l book fair

THE UST Publishing House launched 10 new titles on Sept. 14, during the opening of the 2023 Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) at the...

Award-winning poet is new UST Publishing House deputy director

A Palanca award-winning poet and faculty member from the Department of Literature was named deputy director of the UST Publishing House on Aug. 18.  Asst....

Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo to receive S.E.A. Write Award from Thai royalty

ACCLAIMED writer and literature professor Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo is set to receive the Southeast Asian Writers (S.E.A. Write) Award, a prestigious honor accorded to the...

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