num_pages: 291
description: For the past one hundred years, no Philippine university has produced as splendid, as significant, and as sustained a crop of literary work and talent as the University of the Philippines. Thus, as part of the celebration of the university's centennial in 2008, the UP Institute of Creative Writing is publishing Likhaan: the Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature--not only for UP-based writers but, in consideration of UP's position in the nation, for all Filipino writers, in both English and Filipino (and perhaps other Philippine languages, in future issues).Likhaan was conceived to invite and to showcase the best of new and unpublished Philippine writing in English and Filipino. It is a journal of Philippine--and not just university--writing; by this we mean creative writing of any kind that has some vital connection to Filipino life and Filipino concerns, no matter who writes the piece or where it is written. From the work of this issue's most senior contributor, Amelia Lapena Bonifacio, who was born in 1930, and the youngest, Catherine Bucu, who was born in 1986, this first issue of Likhaan: the Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature is UP's proud contribution to yet another century of vibrantly imaginative writing by and for Filipinos, and for the world at large.
language: English
title: Likhaan 2007: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature
publisher: the University of the Philippines Press and the UP Institute of  Creative Writing