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When word weavers gather

The turnout at the recent three-day Philippine Readers and Writers Festival at The Raffles Makati was all the evidence needed to show that the written word is alive, well and living in this country. It can be said that published authors are the new rock stars as their readers, mostly youngsters, lined up to have copies of their books signed and took selfies.

When word weavers gather

Six women keep art of writing alive

SCHOLAR Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, a fictionist and essayist in her own right, describes the state of literary biography in the Philippines in her latest book “Six Sketches of Filipino Women Writers” as “a wide, arid stretch, with a few patches of grass, and perhaps a tree or two.”

Six women keep art of writing alive