Creative writing

centers after Edsa

maybe grouped
into two.
Academic institutions where Creative
Writing is part of the curricular offerings,
and students majoring in Literature are
able to come in contact with elder creative
writers/critics/professors belonged to the
first group.
Such academic institutions includes:
 Silliman University
 University of the Philippines
 Ateneo de Manila University
De la Salle University
San Carlos University in Cebu.
The second group is composed of
writers' organizations that periodically
sponsor symposia on writing and/or set
up workshops for its members and
other interested parties.
UMPIL (Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipino)
PANULAT (Pambansang Unyon ng mga Manunulat)
 Panday-Lipi
GAT (Galian sa Arte at Tula)
 KATHA
 LIRA (Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo)
GUMIL (Gunglo Dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano)
 LUDABI (Lubas sa Dagang Binisaya)
 P.E.N. ( Poets, Essayists, Novelists, but now Poets,
Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists)
Award giving bodies, annual competitions and
publications provide the incentives for writers
to keep producing.

The National Commission on Culture and the

Arts (NCCA), a post-EDSA state sponsored
institution, was created by the law in 1992,
superseding the Presidential Commission on
Culture and the Arts which was established in
1987.
Campus publications are another group of
outlet that is of importance as a source of non-
traditional, experimental writing.
Characteristics of Post-EDSA Literature

 1. There is in the academe an emerging critical

orientation that draws its concerns and insights
from literary theorizing current in England and the
United States.

2. Post-EDSA publishing has been marked by

adventurousness, a willingness to gamble on
"non-traditional" projects.
3. The declining prestige of the New
Criticism, whose rigorous aesthetic norms
has previously functioned as a Procrustean
bed on which Filipino authors and their
works were measured, has opened a gap in
the critical evaluation of literary works.

4. The fourth and final characteristic of post-

EDSA writing is the development thrust
towards the retrieval and the recuperation of
writing in Philippine languages other than
Tagalog.
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