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                    [Title] => Dirty debutantes: Young Star at 15
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How long ago is 15 years?

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For the first time in a long while, I failed to attend the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature ceremonies last Wednesday, for the most annoying of reasons  arthritis.

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Last week’s piece on the Palanca Literary Awards (and about losing in them) provoked a number of responses from readers who were curious about the judging process. One reader hinted at the possibility of collusion or favoritism, whereby a judge might favor an entry submitted by a friend or a protégé.

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My student’s intriguing hypothesis is that we can’t write big because we’ve gotten used to thinking small, and that awards like the Palancas contribute to that mentality.

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[DatePublished] => 2005-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 276894 [Title] => The book with your name on the spine [Summary] => I got a letter from a reader named Marc, which I’ll use as a take-off point for this week’s column. Here’s what Marc said:

I read your column) about aspiring writers three weeks ago. In order to succeed in the book-publishing world, writers should possess not only talent but also, more importantly, toughness.

One article in Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul talked about this. It mentioned that a writer, more than any other professional, should be tough enough to go through dozens of failures.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 173552 [Title] => The horsey set [Summary] => My fellow fictionist and partner-in-crime Charlson Ong and I found ourselves standing in the driveway of the Manila Polo Club last week, waiting for a ride and looking decidedly more pedestrian than the bevy of sharp-nosed socialites milling around us. We had ventured into unfamiliar territory upon the gracious invitation of Senator Loren Legarda, who hosted the delegates to the Asia-Pacific Conference on Indigenous and Contemporary Poetry – and shameless hangers-on like us – to dinner. [DatePublished] => 2002-08-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 127578 [Title] => The poet’s voice [Summary] => I haven’t found it yet on-line, but I was glad to hear from Nemie Bermejo–the Palanca Foundation’s busybody for the longest time–that the Foundation has finally put up a website. For more than half a century now, the Palanca family has been the largest single contributor to the growth of Philippine literature, through the annual Palanca Awards which will mark their 51st year come September. The website will bring the Palancas–now under the able stewardship of Mrs. [DatePublished] => 2001-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Dirty debutantes: Young Star at 15
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How long ago is 15 years?

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For the first time in a long while, I failed to attend the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature ceremonies last Wednesday, for the most annoying of reasons  arthritis.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 398994 [Title] => More on the Palancas [Summary] =>

Last week’s piece on the Palanca Literary Awards (and about losing in them) provoked a number of responses from readers who were curious about the judging process. One reader hinted at the possibility of collusion or favoritism, whereby a judge might favor an entry submitted by a friend or a protégé.

[DatePublished] => 2008-09-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 45343 [Title] => Good news for writers [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-02-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 15747 [Title] => Coffee with artists [Summary] =>

My student’s intriguing hypothesis is that we can’t write big because we’ve gotten used to thinking small, and that awards like the Palancas contribute to that mentality.

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I read your column) about aspiring writers three weeks ago. In order to succeed in the book-publishing world, writers should possess not only talent but also, more importantly, toughness.

One article in Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul talked about this. It mentioned that a writer, more than any other professional, should be tough enough to go through dozens of failures.
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