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Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial is a writer and artist who graduated Summa Cum Laude from De La Salle University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature, Major in Creative Writing. Her written works have received accolades such as the F. Sionil Jose Young Writers Award and multiple honors from DLSU's Annual Awards for Literature. Her artworks have won several awards from DLSU's Annual Awards for Visual Arts and have been featured in the DLSU Arts Congress and the 4th ArteScene Exhbition. Whether through words or brush strokes, Clarissa explores themes of resilience, identity, and longing for connection through her work. She does not shy away from the grotesque and macabre, balacing them with the quest of finding beauty in the mundane and light in the dark.
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I sold everything I owned except for a few changes of clothes when I left Manila. Everything, including the two-story house, the seven-seater family car that…
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The Philippines is one of the world’s largest sources of international migrants and laborers. A distinct term even exists for Filipinos who work abroad: the…
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A 2023 digital painting that won second place in the 14th DLSU Annual Awards for the Visual Arts. It portrays class inequality through the metaphor of…
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“They should invent a way to save your mother.” “They should invent a mother who wants to be saved.”
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” —Anaïs Nin
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MANILA, Philippines — On 03 November 2025, the Batangas Forum for Good Governance and Development Association, Inc. strongly backed the proposed joint venture…
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FBI joins investigation after blast at Goldenson Building; no injuries reported.
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"Of Dark Days Gone By: A Collection of Poems" is a suite of five poems that won third place in the poetry category for the 39th De La Salle University Annual…
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'Smoke and Salvation' is a short story that won third place in the 2024 F. Sionil Jose Young Writers Awards in the English category.
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