Organizations:

● UMIPIL [Unyon ng Manunulat ng Pilipino]

● PANULAT [Pambansang Unyon ng Manunulat]
● PANDAY LIPI
● GAT [Galian sa Arte]
● Katha
● LIRA [Linganan sa Imahe, Retorika at Anyo]
● GUMIL [Gunglo Dagiti Manunurat nga Ilokano]
● LUDABI [Lubas sa Dagang Bisaya]
● PEN [Pen, Essay, Novel]

Famous writers
Lilia Quindoza Santiago
- Feminism in the lives of Indigenous People
- Born in Manaoag, Bulacan
- Ex. Tula sa sanaysay
Charlson L. Ong
- Institute of Creative Writing
- Teaches literature and creative writing in UP department of English and contemporary literature
- Blue Angel, White Shadow
Jose Dalisay Jr.
- Killing Time in a Warm Place

Writing under the Martial Law Regime was characterized by militancy and belligerence, even when it showed
up in the legal press. Especially after the assassination of Ninoy Aquino in 1983, the temper of poetry and
theatre derived much of its heat and direction from the political culture of the underground national democratic
movement.

However, when the enemy were overthrown in 1986, the literary activity showed a certain disorientation
manifesting itself in a proliferation of concerns taken up by individual writeras and groups.

Post EDSA: 2 Creative Writing centers

Academic institutions where Creative Writing is a part of the curricular offerings.
Writers’ organizations that periodically sponsor symposia on writer and/or set up workshops for its members
and other interested parties

La Tondena, sponsors of the venerable Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in Literature.

- Has mad “Palanca” a synoynm for quality literary works in botrh english and Filipino

NCAA was created by Law

Characteristics
1. There is in the academe an emerging critical orientation that draws its concerns and insights from literary
theorizing current in England and the United States
2. Post-EDSA publishing has been marked by adventurousness, a willingness to gamble on "non-traditional"
projects.

3. The declining prestige of the New Criticism, whose rigorous aesthetic norms has previously functioned as a
Procrustean bed on which Filipino authors and their works were measured, has opened a gap in the critical
evaluation of literary works.

4. The fourth and final characteristic of post-EDSA writing is the development thrust towards the retrieval and
the recuperation of writing in Philippine languages other than Tagalog.

POETRY
From the highly passionate and lyrical forms of poetry in the early 50’s, contemporary poetry
manifests a skillful manipulation of symbolic representations and is more insightful and abstract.

ESSAYSe
Filipino essays address societal issues, are more free and daring, manifesting a more liberated
atmosphere, however pointing out moral degradation, indicating injustice, suggesting alternatives, and
directing thought.

SHORT STORY
Obviously, the short story is still the more popular venue of writers up to this period. The new breed of writers
seem to excel in the skillful handling of techniques and in coming out with original forms. Short romantic fiction
in the vernacular has caught the fancy of many readers who perhaps find these less time-consuming, as well
as less expensive, giving more time for remunerative work and earning a living.

PLAYS
Scriptwriting, a popular and developing literature form is probably due to the growing interest in TV and
the visual arts.

NOVELS
Many of our writers have turned to the more remunerative and shorter literary forms than the
longer novels which are indicative of more practical considerations. Out better novel writers have settled in
their twilight years, some to foreign lands or may have perhaps lost the feel of the Filipino psyche.