Pantoja-Hidalgo joins fellow Philippine literary titans such as National Artists for Literature Nick Joaquin (1980 SEA Write Awardee) and Bienvenido Lumbera (2016 SEA Write Awardee). Thomasian mentors such as the late Arts and Letters Dean Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (1999), Rebecca T. Añonuevo-Cunada (2013), and Michael Coroza (2007) also join the illustrious list.

In an interview with the Communications Bureau, Pantoja-Hidalgo expressed gratitude to the “legendary Philets,” the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, where she earned her bachelor’s degree. “While there were no formal creative writing courses then, it helped that I had wonderful Literature teachers (like Erlinda Francia Rustia, Ophelia Alcantara, and in graduate school, Carolina Garcia). They simply assumed that we, their students, loved reading, and encouraged us to delve deeper into books. As we all know, for writers, this love for and familiarity with, good books, is essential. It also helped that most of the students around me were, or dreamt of being, writers. Some were already working for the national papers and magazines. In that sense, Philets was a true writing school. And I feel owe it a great deal.”

A prolific writer and multi-awarded scholar, she has published more than 40 books, including novels, short stories, and creative nonfiction collections. She has received three Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, including the Grand Prize for her novel “Recuerdo.” 

Prior to leading the CCWLS, Pantoja-Hidalgo was Director of the UST Publishing House. An alumna of the University, she earned her Bachelor of Philosophy and Master of Arts in Literature degrees in the 1960s before eventually earning a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines.

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Hidalgo, who holds a doctorate degree in comparative literature, is also a Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines (UP).

Among the many awards she has received are the Gawad Balagtas, Gawad Dangal ng Lahi, and three Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, including the Grand Prize for the Novel in 1996 for Recuerdo. She has also been recognized as an Outstanding Thomasian Writer and an International Publication Award Hall of Famer.

Hidalgo has published more than 40 books, including novels, short story and CNF collections, and autobiographical travel books. Her works on literary criticism and research focusing on women’s literature have contributed greatly to local and international feminist scholarship.

Her latest book, What I Wanted to be When I Grew Up, released by UP Press in May 2022, is a memoir that traces the effects on her life of the books she read and movies she watched from childhood to high

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This virtual ��ê�ٱ�-à-��ê�ٱ� entitled “The Other World: The Challenges and Anxieties of Translation”, held on November 17, 2021 via livestream, was a part of UST Publishing House‘s “UST Author Lecture Series” in the Manila International Book Fair 2021 (MIBF 2021), where Thomasian authors shared their knowledge on literature and on developing one’s craft.��

Challenges of translation

While translating Hidalgo’s two critically acclaimed books, Pascual shared the challenges he faced in the process, citing the translation of the female voice in the books from English to Filipino. “Iniisip ko baka mamaya ideal translator ni Ma’am [Hidalgo] ay babae rin, so isa iyon sa mga bagay na dapat kong i-overcome habang sinasalin ko ang mga libro,” he said.

Likewise, Hidalgo noted that her two books embodied different voices. Nonetheless, she lauded Pascual for giving justice to its Filipino translation. “Generally, my narrator is a woman and often a woman like myself, iba ang boses ng ‘The Ballad of a Lost Season’ sa ‘Where the ‘Moon Only Rages’, which are fairy tales,” she said. “[Pascual] was able to get that voice and translate it, which is to me a marvel,” she added.

Moreover, Pascual underscored that Filipino poet Gemino Abad’s theory, which is writing “from” English, guided him in translating English works. “Isinasalin ko lang [ang mga akda] pabalik, so may pagsundo. At isang paraan din sa pagsundo ng mga akda ni Ma’am Jing [Hidalgo] ay ang pagpapalitaw ng pagkakautang niya roon sa oral tradition,” he said, noting that Hidalgo’s works harked at the stories from her generation’s grandparents.

Both the translated works, Kundiman ng Panahong Naiwan and Sa Bayan ng Nagngangalit na Buwan: 9 na Kuwentong Bayan, were published by the UST Publishing House.

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Looking back at old works

For Hidalgo, revisiting her old works published more than a decade ago, felt like it was written by a “very young woman” or another person. “When I read the book in translation, it was the strangest feeling: it was like revisiting an old place and then you see your former neighbors, or people you used to know, and they are speaking in another language, so that it seems to me that they are different people, including the character who was based on me,” Hidalgo said.

“It’s like meeting strangers, but the strangers that you used to know, so they are partly familiar and partly unfamiliar.” she added.

An award-winning fictionist and a renowned travel writer, Hidalgo has authored more than 30 books of fiction, travel, essays, and reference materials. Some of her notable works are Catch a Falling Star, Stella and other Friendly Ghosts, Creative Nonfiction (a manual and a textbook), and Collected Stories and Tales, to name some.

The moderator of this event was Prof. John Jack G. Wigley, PhD of RCCAH and Department of Literature.

Revisit the literary conversation between Thomasian authors .

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Hidalgo’s lecture titled “Women and Power in Edith Tiempo’s Fiction” focused on the proto-feminist elements in Tiempo’s short stories “The Corral” and “The Black Monkey” to prove her thesis that, as a writer of fiction, Tiempo was ahead of her time.

Quoting the esteemed literary critic Isagani R. Cruz, Hidalgo reiterated Tiempo’s theoria and praxis of “paying attention to contemporary social problems as a strong material for the literary work, and evolving structures and symbolisms for the exploration of those contemporary problems.” Then she demonstrated how these two stories belie the idea held by some critics and readers about Tiempo’s being mainly an advocate for New Criticism.

Focusing on the protagonists Pilar and Neena, she emphasized Tiempo’s awareness of many women’s situations during her time, her explorations of the nuances of women’s relationships with the men in their lives, and her belief that, though a woman might sometimes be entrapped, she was not entirely unarmed—empowerment was within her reach, and she could choose to seize it.

Hidalgo is a prolific prize-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, a critic and a literary scholar, with more than 40 published books, including three novels, five short story collections, and 16 essay collections. Some of these books have received national awards, like the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature’s Grand Prize for the Novel, and several National Book Awards (given by the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board), for both her fiction and her nonfiction. She has also received the Dangal ng Lahi Award from the Palanca Awards, the Gawad Balagtas from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL), and the Parangal Hagbong from the UST Varsitarian.

Hidalgo is credited with being a pioneer writer and scholar of creative nonfiction, particularly travel writing. As a critic, she is best known for her groundbreaking work in studying the literary memoir and fiction by Filipino women. Her latest book is Collected Stories and Tales published in 2019 by the UST Publishing House.

“Manila Reads Edith Tiempo” is the second installment of the National Artist for Literature Series of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ National Committee on Literary Arts. The first one, titled “Cebu Reads Lazaro Francisco,” was held at the University of San Carlos on April 11, 2019, and was co-sponsored by the NCCA, the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), and the Cebuano Studies Center. The third installment titled “Davao Reads Amado Hernandez” will be held on October 2, 2020.

Tiempo, who was honored as National Artist for Literature in 1999, is the author of the following books: the novels A Blade of Fern (1978), His Native Coast (1979), The Alien Corn (1992), One, Tilting Leaves (1995), and The Builder (2004); the short story collection Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964); the poetry collections The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966), The Charmer’s Box and Other Poems (1993), Beyond, Extensions (1993), Marginal Annotations and Other Poems, and Commend Contend/Beyond Extensions (2010), and the writing guides Six Uses of Fictional Symbols (2004) and Six Poetry Formats and the Transforming Image (2008).

Aside from being named National Artist, Tiempo also won the following awards: the Palanca Awards (1951, 1955, 1967, and 1969 for her poetry and short stories), the Philippines Free Press Short Story Contest (1955 and 1959), the Cultural Center of the Philippines Award (1979, First Prize for the Novel), and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas from UMPIL in 1988. Tiempo has mentored many aspiring Filipino poets and fictionists from all over the Philippines through the Silliman National Writers’ Workshop, which she established and directed in Dumaguete City with her husband Edilberto Tiempo, himself a prize-winning fictionist.

Other participants of the event were UP University Professor Emeritus Gémino H. Abad, who delivered the second lecture, which focused on Tiempo’s poetry; Prof. Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature and former Chairman of the NCCA and the KWF; UST’s Prof. Joyce Arriola, who delivered the opening remarks; UST Publishing House Director Asst. Prof. Ma. Ailil B. Alvarez, who read selected short story excerpts and poems; Cebuano Studies Director Prof. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, who delivered the closing remarks, and UST CCWLS Assistant Director Assoc. Prof. Ralph Semino Galán, who served as the overall emcee as well as moderator of the open forum.

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But aside from her considerable production as a poet, dramatist, short story writer and critic, Dimalanta has also mentored a formidable host of Thomasian writers who have been or are currently in the forefront of Philippine literature and culture: National Artists for Literature Bienvenido S. Lumbera and the late Cirilo F. Bautista, UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (UST CCWLS) Director , Makiling High School for the Arts Director Victor Emmanuel “Vim” Nadera, Jr., UP Press Director J. Neil C. Garcia, and UP System Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs and Director for Alumni Affairs Jose Wendell P. Capili, to name a distinguished few associated with the academe.

Dimalanta’s influence, though, as the literary doyenne from España is perhaps best feltin the genre where she had excelled the most, which is none other than poetry, the vanguard of the literary arts. But nearly a decade after her passing, how does the Thomasian poet figure in the contemporary literary scene?

The Achieve of, the Mastery
A quick survey of the latest installment of Gémino H. Abad’s groundbreaking and definitive anthology of Philippine poetry from English collectively titled Man of Earth contextualizes the position of the Thomasian wordsmith who wrought poetry from English in contemporary times.

Of the 161 poets featured in The Achieve of, the Mastery: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, mid-’90s to 2016, a substantial number (23) are Thomasians: Gloria A. Garchitorena-Goloy, Doris Trinidad, Ophelia Dimalanta, Cirilo Bautista, Albert B. Casuga, Recah A. Trinidad, Rita B. Gadi, Alice M. Sun-Cua, Eric Gamalinda, Merlinda Bobis, Joel Pablo Salud, Capili, Bino A. Realuyo, Garcia, Alma Anonas-Carpio, Ralph Semino Galán, Nerisa del Carmen Guevara, Ramil Digal Gulle, Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra, Allan Justo Pastrana, Carlomar Arcangel Daoana, , and Brylle B. Tabora.

Incidentally, three of these Thomasian poets are currently part of the UST CCWLS: Galán, Assistant Director, and Guevara and Parfan, Resident Fellows. (During the directorship of Dimalanta, Bautista and his fellow National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose were named as the Center’s Senior Associates, while De Veyra and Gulle, along with Galán and Guevara were named as Junior Associates.)

Furthermore, most of these Thomasian poets have published individual books of poetry, the more prolific ones having published multiple titles, like Bautista (12), Dimalanta (7), Garcia (6), and Daoana (5). And they have won many national and international prizes for their verse-making. In fact, Thomasian poets have won a substantial number of prizes in the Palanca Awards for the Poetry in English category in the last ten years: Daoana for the poetry collections “The Elegant Ghost” (First Prize, 2012) and “Crown for Maria” (Second Prize, 2013); Angelo Suarez for “Exploratoria” (Second Prize, 2003) and “Else It Was Purely Girls” (Third Prize, 2004); Bobis for “Accidents of Composition” (Second Prize, 2016); Ramil Digal Gulle for“Afterhours, Afterlives” (Second Prize, 2000); and Mike Maniquiz for “Tornadoes and Other Poems” (Third Prize, 2003).

Not Only in English
The prominence of the Thomasian wordsmith in poetry is not only limited to English, since there is also an equal number of exemplary Thomasian poets writing in Filipino: Teo T. Antonio, Nadera, Michael M. Coroza, the Añonuevo siblings Roberto and Rebecca, , Louie Jon Sanchez, Joseph Rosmon Tuazon, Joseph de Luna Saguid, and Paul Alcoseba Castillo, to mention the more visible ones. Two of these Thomasian poets, aside from also being part of the UST CCWLS as Resident Fellows, are very active in the contemporary literary scene: Delos Reyes is the current Chair of the UST Department of Literature and a board member of Philippine PEN, while Castillo is the latest First Prize winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Poetry in Filipino for his collection “Luna’t Lunas.” But will the Thomasian poet’s winning streak continue into the future?

UST Graduate School
There is no immediate danger that the Thomasian poet will disappear from the literary scene, even as most of the poets personally mentored by Dimalanta have already reached or about to reach middle age, for she had the foresight in the early 2000s to establish a Creative Writing program in the UST . The 32-year old Castillo, who has an, is a certified proof of the effectiveness of the program.

At present, aside from the more senior UST CCWLS Resident Fellows, two major Filipino poets boost the rank of the UST Graduate School Creative Writing faculty: Abad, UP University Professor Emeritus, who teaches a ‘Poetry in English’ workshop class; and Coroza, a Full Professor of the Ateneo de Manila University, who handles a poetry in Filipino workshop class. Abad and Coroza are Senior Visiting Fellow and Associate Fellow of the UST CCWLS, respectively.

Will the winning streak trickle down to the young poets based inside the España campus?

Undergraduate Creative Writing Program
The UST Faculty of Arts and Letters established in 2018 an undergraduate Creative Writing program to align its course offerings with the UST Graduate School, and to help ensure that the Pontifical University’s legacy of excellence in the belle lettres would continue. And gauging by the enthusiastic participation of its first batch of Creative Writing freshman students and some senior Literature majors to a recently held poetry reading organized by Galán and UST CW Undergraduate Program Coordinator at the UST CCWLS Conference Room, to celebrate World Poetry Movement (Movimiento Poético Mundial) initiated by Medellín International Poetry Festival Director Fernando Rendón, poetry indeed, whether in English or Filipino, is very much alive inside the campus of the Pontifical University.

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According to the lecture abstract on Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) or the Writers’ Union of the Philippines Facebook page “Literary Studies are having trouble keeping afloat in some major universities. Literary titles are being edged out of the shelves of the main bookstore chain in the country. Magazines that include stories and essays are now available only online. Commercial publishers are turning down literary titles unless they have a clearly identified market. Even academic publishers are experiencing some problems justifying the publication of literary titles, which are so slow-moving that they clog up storage space. Will there be any space in the near future for the practice and study of literature?”

Hidalgo is the author of several autobiographical travel books, novels, and books of literary criticism focusing on women’s literature. She has also edited literary anthologies, as well as pioneered creative nonfiction in the country. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (1964), magna cum laude, and Master of Arts degree in Literature (1967) meritissimus from the University of Santo Tomas. She later received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1993.

Currently, she serves as the director of the University of Santo Tomas (UST- CCWLS) The Adrian Cristóbal Lecture Series was established by the Cristóbal family, in collaboration with the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) or the Writers’ Union of the Philippines.

It aims to honor the intellectual legacy of the late fictionist, playwright, essayist, satirist, newspaper columnist, and former UMPIL chair whose name the series carries.

In this annual event, a renowned Filipino intellectual delivers a keynote speech on a topic related to a current socio-political condition in the country or a cultural development. Past lecturers include Gemino Abad (2011), National Artist Virgilio Almario (2012), National Artist Resil Mojares (2013), Reynaldo Ileto (2014), Solita Monsod (2015), Marites Vitug (2016), Alfred Yuson (2017), and Soledad Reyes (2018).

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The contexts that inspire Blanco’s investigation range from the Spanish empire in the Americas and the Philippines, to the spread of Christianity in the modern period, to the philosophy of modernity and Eurocentrism, comparative forms of imperialism and anti-colonial struggles, and the legal, religious, and racial dilemmas and contradictions of post-colonial societies and states in and through the study of Philippine, Latin American, Caribbean, and US minority literatures and cultures (religious, political, and artistic).

Blanco received his B.A. (with honors) from Arts and Ideas in the Residential College at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, California. His research interests concern the colonial roots of globalization between the 16th-19th centuries. He is the author of Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth Century Philippines (UC Press 2009; UP Press 2010); and the translator of Julio Ramos’s Divergent Modernities in Latin America: Culture and Politics in the Nineteenth Century.

The UST CCWLS International Writers and Scholars Series consists of formal lectures and informal conversations by international writers as guests of the UST CCWLS. Previous speakers include Peruvian-Spanish Nobel Prize winner for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa, Filipino-Americans Ninotchka Rosca, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Sabina Murray, Gina Apostol, M. Evelina Galang, R. Zamora Linmark, Marivi Soliven, Lara Stapleton, Fidelito Cortes, Nerissa Balce, Amalia Bueno and Wilfredo Pascual, Filipino-Australian Robert Nery, Filipino-Canadian Miguel Syjuco, and foreign nationals, Tim Tomlinson, Dennis Haskell, Qaisra Sharaz, Yukari Yoshihara and Xu Xi.

UST CCWLS Director delivered the opening remarks, while Assistant Director Assoc. Prof. Ralph Semino Galán delivered the closing remarks.

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Books

��resident fellow released his latest book of short stories entitled, “Hantong: Mga Kuwento,” while Mr. Paul Castillo launched his first book of poems entitled “Walang Isang Salita”. Castillo recently bagged the first place in Tula category in the Carlos Palanca Memorial Award held last September 2018; and , from��, launched his first book entitled “Mga Tomasino sa Pilosopiyang Filipino”.

De Leon also bagged the Julian Cruz Balmaseda Awardee in 2018 and was feted “Aklat ng Bayan Awtor ng 2019” by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino for his dissertation, on which his book was based.

Research Papers

of Architectural Studies published his work entitled, “Sampaloc Skywalk: An Innovative and Alternative Pedestrianization Strategy Along Espana Boulevard” on the issue of Manila, a research journal of National Commission for Culture and Arts Studies Conference. Meanwhile, RCCAH resident fellow Dr. Jorge Mojarro Romero’s work entitled “La linguistica misionera y las polemicas identitarias: la Obra del P.Marcilla” appeared on Archivo Agustiniano de Villadolid.

Moreover, Romero’s research paper entitled “El estudio de la literatura Hispanofilipina durante el siglo XX” appeared on the second issue of El Colegio de Mexico’s Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispanica.

Lastly, RCCAH resident fellow��, contributed three chapters for Saysay Himig, a coursebook on Philippine Music History.

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The 15 selected fellows were: Paul Cyrian M. Baltazar (katha; DLS-College of St. Benilde), Jose Socrates S. Delos Reyes (tula; AdMU), Kristine Inez Q. Estioko (CNF; AdMU), Bayani M. Gabriel (sanaysay; Tarlac State University), Hans Lawrence V. Malgapu (poetry; UST, UST Social Media Bureau), Angelito G. Nambatac, Jr. (dula; MSU-IIT), Arianne Patricia Onte (fiction; UPLB), Karl Ivan Dan V. Orit (fiction; UST), Riddick Matthew P. Recoter (CNF; DLSU), Keanu Harold G. Reyes (katha; Bulacan State University), Kristinne Nigel C. Santos (screenplay; UST, UP), Manuel Tinio (dula; DLSU), Edmark T. Tan (poetry; UST, DLSU), Maria Gliceria L. Valdez (CNF; UP Mindanao, University of Southeastern Philippines), and Vincen Gregory Yu (poetry; UP Manila).

“[The Center] functions as an academy of letters dedicated to the reaffirmation of the University’s important role in the nation’s literary history, through the creation of a culture of literary excellence within Thomasian community and for the cultivation of an awareness of University’s literary tradition,” UST CCWLS Assistant Director Asst. Prof. Ralph Semino Galan said.

This year’s special guest panelists were: Gemino H. Abad, R. Zamora Linmark, and Jerry B. Gracio. The workshop director was Assoc. Prof. John Jack G. Wigley and the workshop coordinator was Mr. Benedict Parfan.

CCWLS Outreach program
Incon junction with the Center’s role in cultivating awareness in literature, the resident fellows lectured at the Benguet State University. Mr. Chuckbery Pascual, PhD, lectured on the topic of pop culture; Assoc. Prof. Augusto Aguila, PhD, lectured on the history of love teams; Asst. Prof Galan lectured on Latin American Literature; and Joselito Delos Reyes, PhD, lectured on social media.

The panelists from the UST CCWLS awere Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, director, Ralph Semino Galán, deputy director, and resident fellows Augusto Antonio A. Aguila, PhD, Nestor Cuartero, , , , and Joselito B. Zulueta.

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The writing fellows for this year were: Maria Tanya P. Cruz (UST) and Francis Paolo M. Quina (UP Diliman) for fiction in English; Maria Nikka P. Policarpio (UST) and Eric John B. Villena (Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan) for fiction in Filipino; Paul M. Jerusalem (Yale-National University of Singapore) and Timothy F. Ong (Ateneo de Manila/ UP Diliman) for poetry in English; Andrea Alban (UST) and Jasper Emmanuel Y. Arcalas (UST) for poetry in Filipino; John Patrick I. Allanegui (Ateneo de Manila) and Jennie Arado (UP Mindanao) for creative nonfiction in English; and Giselle R. Dela Cruz (UST) and Rhea B. Gulin (Philippine Normal University) for creative nonfiction in Filipino.

The senior guest panelists of this year’s Workshop were Mr. Marne Kilates, one of the most renowned poet-translators of the Philippines, and Philippine High School for the Arts Director V.E. Carmelo Nadera, Jr., who is a former editor-in-chief of the Varsitarian, the founder of its annual Gawad USTetika Literary Awards and a former director of the UP Institute of Creative Writing. The participation of this year’s senior guest panelists was made possible through the sponsorship of the Varsitarian.

Poet-critic and CCWLS Assistant Director Ralph Semino Galán, served as the Workshop Director, while fictionist-playwright and CCWLS Resident Fellow Chuckberry J. Pascual, PhD, served as the Workshop Coordinator.

Aside from Kilates, Nadera, Galán and Pascual, the teaching panel was also composed of UST CCWLS Director Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, PhD, and UST CCWLS Resident Fellows  Chair , PhD, UST  Deputy Director , , , , , , and Joselito B. Zulueta.

UP Diliman’s U Z. Eliserio, fictionist-critic and UST Publishing House author, was also part of the panel.

Some of the UST CCWLS’s Resident Fellows delivered lectures in creative and critical writing at the University of the Cordilleras as part of the UST CCWLS Outreach Lecture Series in Baguio City.

During the Graduation Ceremonies and Fellows’ Night of the Workshop,  Dean Prof. Michael Anthony Vasco, PhD, delivered a very erudite speech on the “literary text” as seen from a philosophical perspective in his opening remarks, while Hidalgo further encouraged the Writing Fellows to pursue the craft of creative writing, as well as thanked the faculty members for having accepted to be part of the distinguished teaching panel.

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