National Book Store holds Color and Calligraphy Fair in Cebu

Hayde Quiñanola 11/15/2016

HAVE you grown an interest in calligraphy or you’re already into it? Maybe you already knew which point size fits your writing, maybe not yet. In fact, maybe you’re already attached to one writing tool because you’re…

Lessons from Story Hours

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 11/11/2016

Turks and Caicos — Eighth day on this boat and I have only seen one child with a staff from Crystal Cruises who’s with her all the time. I am starting to turn weepy and whiny as…

Lords of the bills: Return of the pork

Jason A. Baguia 10/21/2016

I like to think that I am not a candidate for hypertension, never mind my proclivity for pork dishes. When I come home after writing my master’s thesis, I look forward to dining in Barangay Tisa, Cebu…

Miss Cebu 2016: Writing can be applied to any industry

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 08/31/2016

In the midst of 250 elementary and high school students from Cebu City, Miss Cebu 2016 Gabriele Raine Abellana Baljak listened to talks on feature and news writing, took notes and occasionally nodded her head in agreement…

Muscle memory

Raymund Fernandez 11/04/2015

It took him quite a bit of time learning how to touch-type. In the ‘70s, typing was a subject you could still take in school, usually under a university’s “Secretarial” program. His older sisters took subjects like…

Workshop on disaster writing

PR 10/09/2015

THE Women in Literary Arts-Cebu Inc. (Wila) will hold a “Women in Disaster” creative nonfiction writing seminar-workshop on Oct. 10 and 11 at St. Mark Hotel in Cebu City. Fifteen fellows, composed of 10 Wila members and…

Jessica Zafra: Twisted Sister

Neil Iosif Ylagan, Rob Gonzales 07/19/2015

CYNISM. “An attitude of scornful or jaded negativity”—that being the case, cynics are generally unpleasant people. Then again, those who possess wit and attitude turn out to be the most intriguing characters. Case in point—writer Jessica Zafra.…

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