ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT before the IYAS Homecoming and Literary Festival!
We celebrate the 25th year of the #IYAS National Writers Workshop, which is now well underway. The silver anniversary homecoming is just days away! This year's selected writers are once more having a grand time, because in #IYAS, they are challenged and encouraged, and their voices get even more lift using wings[READ]
Towards a Language of Estuaries: Cosmic Roots and Resilient Resistance
This event is tomorrow, a provocation we hope that is fit for the 25th year of such a generous, loving, fierce, and cerebral national writers workshop, one that covers writing in several languages, in poetry, essay, short story, and so on and on and on, organized by the University of St. La[READ]
Friends across oceans? Yes!
Friends across oceans? Yes! What a lovely time spent with Lito and AA Valerio, and their inquisitive son, Teo. They dropped by the Constantino Foundation compound in late April. They were spending a few weeks in the Philippines on holiday, much of it spent visiting family in Davao. But they were also[READ]
Coming home to where the writing began.
Coming home to where the writing began. IYAS La Salle National Writers Workshop invites all alumni (Batches 2000–2025) to our Silver Anniversary Homecoming on May 14–16, 2026 at the University of St. La Salle, Bacolod. Be part of 25 years of IYAS stories—reconnect, celebrate, and come home. Register here: https://forms.gle/32AVw3ZP4PzxbCM8 #IYASHomecoming #IYAS2026[READ]
Congratulations to the IYAS 2026 Fellows!
Fellows! Filipino writers are central to the task of nation-building and protecting the nation, and IYAS stands out for its role in supporting our people’s forest of writers thrive, so that they may question, shape, reimagine, inspire, and provoke change among our people. Mabuhay, IYAS 2026 Fellows, and congratulations to the wise[READ]
Binondo Day
We celebrate Binondo Day by sharing the post of a group that's very much involved in nation-building. As ignorance fuels hate, so must we feed our senses - with history. If you haven't tried one of their tours yet, we encourage you to seek them out. They're mostly young folks from different[READ]
Nothing New in the World
Renato Redentor Constantino, The Poverty of Memory: Essays on History and Empire (FNS-2006), p. 52-55 Nothing New in the WorldThe winding path the United States took to September 11th. “Memory says, ‘I did that,'” Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote. “Pride replies, ‘I could not have done that.’ Eventually, memory yields.” Three years ago[READ]
Day Two: Lester Rodriguez Leads Watercolor Workshop with Sagay Youth
Lester Rodriguez, distinguished artist from Binangonan, begins the day with a watercolor workshop with Sagay youth. It's a great platform - later, we'll lead a workshop with teachers on how to use art in appreciating and interrogating history and science.
