I was more than pleased to witness Ateneo de Naga’s Buwan ng Wika celebration with the official launch of the Premyo Victorio C. Valledor for Best Bikol Novel, for many reasons. Buwan ng Wika ...

He has an array of poetry books, fiction and literary translations to his name, as well as two Palanca Awards and other literary awards when he was still in his 20s. At 30, Kristian Sendon Cordero ...

In the current din regarding the incredulous and lamentable loss of Panitikan in Filipino in the college curriculum, I was heartened to reread Premyo Valledor winner Niles Jordan Breis’ acceptance ...

From spicy foods to spicy words, Bikolanos have a way of switching up to an entirely different set of words in moments of strong emotion. Your pet cat, once called ikós, is now kurasmág, and eating ...

Hot off the press featuring 22 writers, the first anthology of Bicol fiction stories in varying dialects is making a buzz since it was launched at Ateneo de Naga University in Naga City recently.

FRANZ Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” is one of the key modernist texts of the 20th century and one of the most debated by critics and literature lovers. The novel’s protagonist is depicted as waking up ...

The dearth of theater in Naga City gave a few Bikolista culture vultures among us a reason to travel to Legazpi City, not for the expensive unhealthy colonizer’s donuts and coffee some crow make that ...