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Listening to Red (Taylor’s Version) in the Tuna Capital of the Philippines
Read more: Listening to Red (Taylor’s Version) in the Tuna Capital of the PhilippinesGeneral Santos is hot in a way that I’ve only ever experienced in my parents’ hometown, where a glass (or two) of ice-cold Coca-Cola in the afternoons is a staple not just for its sweetness but for the relief it brings from the relentless heat. But unlike Tarlac or Pampanga, there’s a vastness to this…
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The Story Shop: An Experiment
Read more: The Story Shop: An ExperimentA few months ago, Conchitina Cruz (aka Chingbee) wrote an entry entitled On Writing & Value which talked about how poetry is perceived in the Philippine setting and how the value of poetry (and literature in general) is often equated to nil because “value equals money” is the mainstream form of thought when in truth…
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Sunning A Mattress @ the Southern Pacific Review // Fiction
Read more: Sunning A Mattress @ the Southern Pacific Review // FictionThis story is one that was very difficult for me to write. It was both a return to and a stepping out of something: in the recent past, I feel that I’ve dipped my toes (or perhaps fallen headlong) into the strange, the fairy tale-but-not-quite; I’ve tried more and more to challenge myself by writing based…
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On The Other Side // A Katipunan Adventure
Read more: On The Other Side // A Katipunan AdventureThis month (September) has dragged on for what feels like forever. I feel a little bit unnerved because I still have so many things to write, read, and review/film for my channel–this whole month has felt like something’s gotta give and yet nothing has so here I am. A couple of weeks ago, I went…
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Plural @ The Kritika Kultura Reading Series
Read more: Plural @ The Kritika Kultura Reading SeriesI’m very jazzed to be attending the Kritika Kultura reading series with the rest of the Plural editors this coming Tuesday, September 15. We’re going to be talking about prose, how we’re contributing to it, and what it means to find a place for experimentation in such a traditionally rigid landscape. We’re also going to be…
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Wina Puangco-Mutuc 