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As part of the POPtastik Pinoy! program of activities held in celebration of Text in the City: The 4th Philippine International Literary Festival , Ayala Museum will hold City Fiction 100 , a flash fiction masterclass, on November 15, 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. This workshop is open to professional and budding writers of all ages. Participants will get feedback from acclaimed writers Sarge Lacuesta and Krys Lee , and the country's first literary agent Andrea Pasion-Flores , with travel writer Kristine Fonacier as moderator. Korean-American writer Krys Lee is our special guest for this year's LitFest. She will be discussing and launching her book Drifting House on the morning of November 15. She will also join the City Fiction 100 panel in the afternoon. The goal is simple: in 100 words or less, write about a city, real or imagined. More than a dozen people have already submitted their works of flash fiction, less than a week after the masterclass was announced!

Filipino writers will discuss folk and popular literature as shown in komiks, TV, and film as the National Book Development Board ( NBDB ), Filipinas Heritage Library ( FHL ), and Ayala Museum hold POPtastik Pinoy! this November. P leas e click to enlarge poster. The event is part of the 4th Philippine International Literary Festival. Titled Text and the City , the LitFest will take place in the major universities in Metro Manila from November 11-14 and at the Ayala Museum on November 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Lit Fest will feature local and regional writers. Xu Xi, Hong Kong-based writer of Access: Thirteen Tales will speak in UST; Singapore-based writer Kamini Ramachandran and London’s Jasmine Anne Corray, writer of Everything We Don't Say will speak in DLSU; Peter Swirski, Canadian scholar, literary critic, and writer of From Highbrow to Nobrow will speak in ADMU; Singaporean Suchen Lim, author of The River's Song , will speak in UP; and American

The Books of My Childhood If there's one thing I like more than reading, it's playing video games (especially role-playing games), and that's what I spent most of my leisure time doing as a child. Of course, my parents, especially my mother, didn't want me glued to the PC monitor or TV screen all day, so she encouraged me to read books. She gave me all The Chronicles of Narnia novels by C.S. Lewis, of which I have only read Prince Caspian and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe , to this day. She also bought me several of Roald Dahl novels of which I remember reading Esio Trot , The BFG , and James and the Giant Peach . There were others, like Matilda and The Witches , which have lain dormant on my bookshelf form more than a decade. I also remember reading several Hardy Boys and combined Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew mysteries, with encouragement from my mother. My uncle gave me the first three X-Files novels , which I thought was really cool. Goosebumps a novel