UPLB CAS DHUM Literary and Cultural Studies Division

01/06/2026

"For a bakery like ours, it meant more than handing out the bread, receiving payment, and giving change. It also meant taking care of small tasks: preparing the baking sheets, helping with pagpipigura (shaping) and pagkakamada (organizing) of the small cuts of dough, and coating everything with fine bread crumbs to avoid sticking. All of which were, to an extent, enjoyable except for the part where I had to stand near a hot commercial oven."
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Tere is a writing student at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

Young Blood contributor Teresa Hilis notes how baking bread in her childhood gave her both good and bad memories

01/06/2026

"Perhaps what terrifies us most is not death itself, but the loss of the humble joys of life. Not being able to witness another sunrise, not hearing another story, not tasting another meal that reminds us of home, not feeling the warmth of another embrace. The fear of losing all of these awakens something deep within, as if the mind is overwhelmed by the beauty of being alive."

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Darl is a communication arts student at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, majoring in writing.

Young Blood contributor Darl Angelica G. Panti ponders on death and imagines what happens after life on earth

14/04/2026

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📢 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄 📢

𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒂'𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒌𝒂𝒏 goes online this Thursday, 16 April. You may register through this link: https://forms.gle/JGuZfX8PLhSrnBRt7 .

09/12/2025

Inaanyayahan ang lahat sa

BANLIK: Koleksyon ng mga kwento
anthology release · talkbalk · raffle
inihahandog ng 𝑭𝑰𝑳 𝟏𝟓𝟎-𝑩 at sa patnubay ni 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒇. 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒉 𝑪𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒂

Miyerkules, ika-10 ng Disyembre 2025, 3PM
sa Sizily

Makisalo sa bahaginan at magrehistro ngayon pa lang upang magkaroon ng pagkakataong manalo ng isang eksklusibong pisikal na kopya ng banlik!

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One of One
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The Reading Nook
UPLB Perspective

Mapupuno ng kwentuhan 🗨 sa nalalapit na ✨𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒌 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉✨ ngayong ika-10 ng Disyembre 2025 sa Sizily! ❤️‍🔥

BANLIK: Koleksyon ng mga kwento
Inihahandog ng 𝑭𝑰𝑳 𝟏𝟓𝟎-𝑩 at sa patnubay ni 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒇. 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒉 𝑪𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒂...

👀 Makisalo sa bahaginan at magrehistro ngayon pa lang upang magkaroon ng pagkakataong manalo ng isang eksklusibong pisikal na kopya ng banlik!📕📘📗

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In partnership with:
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One of One
RootsElbi
The Reading Nook
UPLB Perspective

12/11/2025

📣📣 The UPLB CAS Department of Humanities is developing a new Associate in Arts in Creative Writing (AACW) program-a bilingual, two-vear course designed for high school graduates passionate about literature, arts, and culture. Graduates of the AACW may choose to later continue in completing a BA degree in the arts and humanities.
If you are interested in applying for the program once it is launched, please let us know by filling out this form:

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📣📣 The UPLB CAS Department of Humanities is developing a new Associate in Arts in Creative Writing (AACW) program-a bilingual, two-vear course designed for high school graduates passionate about literature, arts, and culture. Graduates of the AACW may choose to later continue in completing a BA degree in the arts and humanities.

If you are interested in applying for the program once it is launched, please let us know by filling out this form:

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14/10/2025

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Isang pangunahing bahagi ng pagtula ni Dumlao ang daigdig ng Pantabangan, ang bayang nilunod ng rehimeng Marcos para gawing dam na nagsusuplay ng tubig at enerhiya sa mga kalapit na lalawigan, kabilang ang Metro Manila. Ilan sa mga pinagtuonang paksa ng tula ang danas ng paglalaho ng pinakamamahal na komunidad at ang hindi mabura, malimot-limot na alaala nito, na lumilitaw sa mga panaginip, pagmumuni, at mga balik-tanaw sa lupang tinubuan, lalo pa at tila nagmumulto sa aktuwal na muling paglitaw sa panahon ng tagtuyot at umaatras ang tubig para magbigay-daan sa muling pagdalaw sa dating lupain at makita ang labi ng mga kongkretong gusali gaya ng lumang simbahan.

—Romulo P. Baquiran Jr.
Makata, kuwentista, mananaysay, propesor

©2025

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14/10/2025

Ma'am Shaunnah's co-written chapter (w/ sir Malabed), "Orality as Object: The Material Life of Philippine Metrical Romances and its Depiction of Women" from the book The Filipino worldview through art, images, and objects. From indigenous cultures to the 19th century published by Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla EnredARS and RomaTre-Press.

The Philippine corrido reached the apex of its popularity in the 19th century as the bestseller of its day. However, intellectuals who considered literature a source of national identity found these long verse narratives too fantastic, sentimental, religious, and didactic—too colonial. This paper ...

14/10/2025

Ma'am Reya's article, "Reading-as-Lesbian and Desiring-as-Lesbian: The commodification of kilig and coming-of-age in Samantha Lee’s Billie and Emma (2018)" in the latest issue of Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

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We are pleased to announce the latest issue of Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance (Vol. 5, No. 2). You may access the issue here: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/

Our latest issue is a convergence of various scholarly voices attending to the critical and creative discourses on the colonial imaginaries of rural cities, the literary and everyday contestations in urban spaces, the uneasy queering and gendered representations in Philippine cinema, and the affects of revolution and literature. Altogether, these articles scale the spaces of the urban and rural, interface our imagined and contested realities, and interrogate our lived and filmic selves.

Akda Vol. 5, No. 2 includes the following articles:

Regular Articles:

1. From Fort to Prison: The Production of Iloilo City
Ram Paulo A. Anayan

2. Graffiti, Neoliberalismo, at Tunggalian para sa Espasyo sa Lungsod Quezon (Graffiti, Neoliberalism, and Contestations for Space in Quezon City)
Harvey James G. Castillo

3. Cemented Republic: Infrastructure and Slow Violence in Jun Cruz Reyes’s Ang Huling Dalagang Bukid at ang Authobiography na Mali: Isang Imbestigasyon
Jonah Leigh E. Ramos

4. Reading-as-Lesbian and Desiring-as-Lesbian: The commodification of kilig and coming-of-age in Samantha Lee’s Billie and Emma (2018)
Reya Mari S. Veloso

5. (Ba)Ding, Ang Bato!: Queering Duterte's Drug War in Jun Lana's Big Night! (2021)
Jenno Roquero

Perspective Article:

6. Ang Kasama: Agapay na Sanaysay sa Librong Kampuhan (The Comrade: A Companion Essay to the Book Kampuhan)
Ma. Cecilia C. de la Rosa

10/10/2025

"Meanwhile, Ani’s motivation is the desire to serve. After majoring in creative writing and fine arts in undergrad, she hopes to become a cultural heritage lawyer, fighting for the repatriation of stolen artifacts. 'A lot of our indigenous people deserve to have access to their own culture,' she states, citing that a majority of the Philippines’ cultural objects are stored in museums abroad."
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from "So you want to go to law school?" by Cidee Despi
https://philstarlife.com/self/543347-so-you-want-law-school

Cidee is a law student, writer, and development sector professional. She is committed to learning about, writing about, and helping address various socio-political problems. Her work centers on gender, class politics, human rights, and culture.

She is an alumna of the BACA writing program of the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

SHOWING UP, NO MATTER WHAT

For exhausted law students and dreamers alike, Bar Boys: The Musical became more than a show—it was a reminder of purpose. Through sleepless nights, endless readings, and moments of doubt, these future lawyers hold on to their “why”: justice, service, and the people they fight for.

Read more at the link in the comments.

05/10/2025