Charlson L.

Ong
Charlson L. Ong , resident fellow of the Institute of Creative Writing and
fictionist/scriptwriter/singer extraordinaire, was born on July 6, 1960. He obtained an
A.B. in Psychology from the University of the Philippines in 1977, and currently
teaches literature and creative writing under UP's Department of English and
Comparative Literature. He has joined several writers' workshops here and abroad,
and has acquired numerous grants and awards for his fiction, including the Palanca,
Free Press, Graphic, Asiaweek, National Book Award, and the Dr. Jose P. Rizal Award
for Excellence. His novel, Embarrassment of Riches published by UP Press in 2002,
won the Centennial Literary Prize. In addition to this, Ong has served as co-editor of
the Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction.

His short stories range from parodies of well-loved Filipino texts to insightful
treatments of Chinese-Filipino culture. These have been collected into Men of the
East and Other Stories (1990 and 1999), Woman of Am-Kaw and Other
Stories(1993), Conversion and Other Fictions (1996), Banyaga: A Song of War(2007,
Anvil) and Blue Angel, White Shadow (2010, UST).

He is a bachelor based in Mandaluyong City.

Allan Popa is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Drone (Ateneo de
Manila University Press, 2013) and Laan(De La Salle University Publishing House,
2013). He has received the Philippines Free Press Literary Award and the Manila
Critics Circle National Book Award. He teaches at the Filipino Department of
Ateneo de Manila University and is currently the director of Ateneo Institute of
Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP).
Babel

Sight sets the heights.

Towering past clouds what is pursued by the eye

Remains ungraspable within the eye's reach.

At the edge of the gathering, ruin.

Where to find fullness?

Before everything, the bustling clamor.

(speech)

A sudden, momentary pause.

(a drop of hush)

As the saying goes, an angel in transit.

(a knot in the tongue's logic)

Afterwards, a horde of angels.

Afterwards, the sense

that something will take place.
(a portent)

Approaching a summit.
The instant before once again
God's hand plummets.

Again, what was stalled at the tip of Adam's tongue

in straining for the fruit.
(a savored refusal)

The one word.

Here.

This remaining nameless.

Abdon M. Balde, Jr.

Si Abdon M. Balde, Jr. .ay ipinanganak sa liblib na nayon ng Busac, Oas, Albay.
Nagtapos ng B.S. Civil Engineering, siya'y isang inhinyero na pagkatapos ng 33 taon
sa konstruksyon ay tumugon sa mapang-akit na tawag ng Musa ng Panitik.
Kasalukuyang Kagawad ng Lupon sa Wika at Salin ng National Commission on
Culture and the Arts (NCCA) at isang Direktor ng Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa
Pilipinas (UMPIL). Nanalo ng National Book Awards ang kaniyang mga aklat na
Mayong at Hunyango sa Bato, nagawaran ng Rokyaw Ibalong Bikol Achievement
Award in Literature at nanalo sa Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature sa
kategoryang Maikling Kuwento. Nakatira siya ngayon, kapiling ang pamilya, sa 18
Dao St. Casimiro Village, Las Pias City at ang kanyang e-mail address
aykadunung@yahoo.com.

HATINGGABI

Ginising ako ng kalampag ng hindi-lapat na bintanang inihampas ng hangin sa

hambahan. Pagdilat koy kumislap ang isang malayong kidlat na tila ibig lamang
ipakita ang orasan sa dingding na naghuhudyat ng hatinggabi.

Naging ganap ang katahimikan.

Nawalan ng kulay ang paligid.

Muling umihip ang hangin, may kasamang anggi ng ulan. Bahagyang wumagayway
ang mga kurtina, parang mga dambuhalang pakpak sa mapusyaw na karimlan.

Noon ko nakita ang anyo ng tao sa labas, nakasilip sa salaming ng bintana, nakamasid
sa akin.

Hindi ako makabangon. Hindi ako makakilos. Dahil ang nakasilip sa maliit na siwang
ng mga kurtina ay sarili kong mukha!

(101 salita)

Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo

Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo was born on August 21, 1944 in Manila. The renowned
teacher, editor, writer, and pioneer of creative nonfiction obtained her Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature from the University of Philippines in 1993. Garnering honors
since her colegiala days, Dr. Hidalgo has also received such prestigious awards as
Gawad Balagtas, Graphic, Free Press, Focus, Manila Critics Circle, British Council
Grant to Cambridge, and the U.P. Presidents Award for Outstanding Publication. She
has been recognized as Outstanding Thomasian Writer, Hall of Famer for the
International Publication Award, and Grand Prize winner for the Novel in the Palanca
Awards.

Her husbands fifteen-year relationship with UNICEF provided her with opportunities
to explore various countries. Out of her experiences were born seven autobiographical
travel books, including Sojourns (1984), Celadon and Kimchi: A Korean
Notebook (1993), Coming Home (1997), and Passages: Selected Travel
Essays (2008). She also has five short story collections, the most recent of which
isSky Blue After the Rain (2005), and two novels, Recuerdo (1996), which won the
Palanca, and A Book of Dreams (2001). Her work in literary criticism has produced
four books that include studies of womens literature, such as those published
inWoman Writing: Home and Exile in the Autobiographical Narratives of Filipino
Women (1994), A Gentle Subversion (1998), and Over a Cup of Ginger Tea (2006).
Dr. Hidalgo has also put together numerous anthologies such as The Likhaan Book of
Poetry and Fiction (1995 and 2001), Sleepless in Manila(2003), My Fair
Maladies (2005), and The Children's Hour: Stories on Childhood, Vol. II (2006).

She is currently Vice President for Public Affairs of the University of the Philippines
and an associate of the UP Institute of Creative Writing.

Below is her extensive bibliography:

Novels

Recuerdo (1996)

A Book of Dreams (2001)

Short Stories/Tales

Ballad of a Lost Season and Other Stories (1987)

Tales for a Rainy Night (1993)

Where Only the Moon Rages: 9 Tales (1994)

Catch a Falling Star (1999)

Sky Blue After the Rain: Selected Stories and Tales (2005)
Creative Nonfiction

Sojourns (1984)

Five Years in a Forgotten Land: A Burmese Notebook (1991)

I RememberTravel Essays (1993)

Skyscrapers, Celadon and Kimchi: a Korean Notebook (1993)

The Path of the Heart (1994)

Coming Home (1998)

Passages: Selected Travel Essays (2008)

Looking for the Philippines (2009)

Travels with Tania (2009)

Literary Criticism

Woman Writing: Home and Exile in the Autobiographical Narratives of

Women (1994)

A Gentle Subversion: Essays on Philippine Fiction (1998)

Over a Cup of Ginger Tea: Conversations on the Literary Narratives of Filipino

Women (2006)

Fabulists and Chroniclers (2008)

Anthologies

Pinay: Autobiographical Narratives by Filipino Women (2000)

Creative Nonfiction: A Reader (2003, 2005)

Sleepless in Manila : Funny Essays, etc. on Insomnia by Insomniacs (2003)

My Fair Maladies: Funny Essays and Poems on Various Ailments and

Afflictions (2005)

The Children's Hour: Stories on Childhood, II (2007)

Tales of Fantasy and Enchantment (2008)

Philippine Postcolonial Studies, Priscelina Patajo-Legasto co-editor (1993, 2005)

The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction 1995, Gemino H. Abad co-editor(1996)

Shaking the Family Tree, Alessandra Gonzales, co-editor (1998)

The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction 1997, Gemino H. Abad co-editor(1998)

Why I Travel and Other Essays, Erlinda E. Panlilio co-editor (2000)

The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction, 2001 Gemino H. Abad co-editor(2002)

Beverly Wico Siy

Si Beverly Wico Siy o Bebang Siy ay ipinanganak sa Quirino, Maynila noong 10
Disyembre 1979. Nagtapos siya ng BA Malikhaing Pagsulat sa Filipino (cum laude)
sa UP Diliman. Mahigit dalawang taon siyang naging manunulat at mananaliksik sa
Creative Collective Center, Inc., isang NGO na nagtataguyod ng karapatan ng
kababaihan. Isa sa mga proyekto nito ang P.S.R. Pag-ibig, Seksuwalidad at Relasyon
radio program sa DZME 1530 khz kung saan naging co-anchor ni Dra. Sylvia
Estrada-Claudio si Bebang. Tumagal nang mahigit dalawang taon ang PSR at
sumahimpapawid din ito sa DYHP 1640khz, ang nangungunang radio station sa Cebu
at sa DZBF Marikina. Kasabay ng PSR ay ilang mga pampanitikang proyektong
pinamunuan ni Bebang. Ito ang TEXTANAGA, DALITEXT at DIONATEXT, mga
pambansang patimpalak sa tula hatid ng UP ICW, NCCA, FIT at UMPIL.

Ang kanyang mga akda ay nailathala na sa mga publikasyon sa loob at labas ng

akademya. Ilang beses siyang nanalo sa mga patimpalak sa unibersidad noong college
days niya at, finally, nakasungkit siya ng karangalang-banggit sa Talaang Ginto ng
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino noong 2002 at Filipino Readers Choice Award Essay
Anthology noong 2012.

Naging fellow na si Bebang sa UP at UST Writers Workshops at naging aktibong

bahagi ng pamunuan ng UP Writers Club, LIRA, UMPIL at FWGP.

Nag-aaral ng Panitikang Filipino si Bebang sa Filipino Department ng UP Diliman at

masugid siyang copyright advocate para sa mga manunulat na Filipino.

Sa kasalukuyan, isa siyang freelancer na manunulat, editor, proofreader, tagapagsalin

at tagapagsalita sa mga writing workshop at book event. Isa rin siya sa mga
mananaliksik ng panitikan.com.ph. Maaaring makipag-ugnayan sa kanya
sabeverlysiy@gmail.com o sa 0919-3175708.

Dean Francis Alfar

Bewildering Stories biography
Dean Francis Alfars short fiction has appeared both in his native Philippines as
well as in international publications, including Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, the
Apex Book of World SF, Exotic Gothicand The Years Best Fantasy and Horror.
His writing awards include ten Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature
including the Grand Prize for Novel for Salamanca (Ateneo Press, 2006) and
the Manila Critics Circle National Book Award for the graphic novels Siglo:
Freedom and Siglo: Passion. His first collection of fiction isThe Kite of Stars and
Other Stories (Anvil 2008).
He is an advocate of the literature of the fantastic, publishing the
annual Philippine Speculative Fictionseries. He lives in Manila with his wife Nikki
and their daughters Sage and Rowan.
Copyright 2006, 2012 by Dean Francis Alfar
Bewildering Stories bibliography
Prose Fiction
The Middle Prince
Into the Morning
The Maiden and the Crocodile
In the Dim Plane
Packing for the Moon

Dean Francis Alfar (born 1969), is a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of
speculative fiction. His plays have been performed in venues across the country, while
his articles and fiction have been published both in his native Philippines and abroad,
such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The Years Best Fantasy & Horror, The
Apex Book of World SF, and the Exotic Gothic series.

His literary awards include ten Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature
including the Grand Prize for Novel for Salamanca (Ateneo Press, 2006) as well
as the Manila Critics Circle National Book Awards for the graphic novels Siglo:
Freedom and Siglo: Passion, the Philippines Free Press Literary Award, and the
Gintong Aklat Award.

He was a fellow at the 1992 Dumaguete National Writers Workshop as well as the
20th and 48th UP National Writers Workshop.

He is an advocate of the literature of the fantastic, editing the Philippine Speculative

Fictionannuals, as well as a comic book creator and a blogger.

Alfar is also an entrepreneur running several businesses. He lives in Manila with

his wife, fictionist Nikki Alfar and their daughters Sage and Rowan.

Edgar Calabia Samar

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in San Pablo City, Philippines
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Edgar Calabia Samar is a multi-awarded poet and novelist from the Philippines.
His first novel, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog, received the NCCA Writers Prize in
2005, and its English translation as Eight Muses of the Fall was longlisted in the
Man Asian Literary Prize in 2009. In 2013, he received two Philippine National
Book Awardsone for his second novel, Sa Kasunod ng 909 (Best Novel), and
another for his book on the creative process, Halos Isang Buhay: Ang
Manananggal sa Pagsusulat ng Nobela (Best Book of Criticism). Si Janus Silang at
ang Tiyanak ng Tabon, the first book in his YA series Janus Silang, also received
the Philippine National Book Award for Best Novel in 2015 and the Philippine
National Childrens Book Award for Best 2014-2015 Read in 2016. He has also
received prizes for his poetry and fiction from the Palanca and the PBBY-Salanga
Writers Prize. His other books include Pag-aabang sa Kundiman: Isang
Tulambuhay, a poetry collection, and 101 Kagila-gilalas na Nilalang, a children's
encyclopedia of Philippine fantastic creatures. In 2010, he was invited as writer-in-
residence to the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa.

Isa si Eros Atalia sa mga nagiging popular na manunulat sa Pilipinas. Ang mga
aklat niya ay nakikipagsabayan sa popularidad ni Bob Ong pagdating sa mga
pahayag na maloko man ngunit may 'laman'. Kung sa kahusayan niya sa pagsulat
ang tatanungin, sa tingin ko ay magaling siya sapagkat hindi ako nagsasawang
basahin siya. Kung duda pa rin kayo, maghanap kayo ng BIO-DATA niya pagdating
sa mga nakamit niyang karangalan sa pagsulat. Ang katangi-tangi lamang kay
Eros ay madalas na mapapansin sa mga aklat na isinulat niya ang dalawang
bagay, si INTOY at ang mga Flash fiction o Dagli na paborito niyang isulat.