ISSN: 3116-5265

 
 
&: The DECL Journal of Student Creative Writing collects the best work of the year written by both undergraduate and graduate students in the Creative Writing courses offered by the Department of English and Comparative Literature. 
Ensuring diversity in subject, substance, and style, it features the most imaginative work to come out of basic courses in creative writing (CW 10 and CW 100); workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, writing for children/young adults, and comic book writing; and special topics courses in creative writing (such as erotica and science fiction). 
 & is published by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines – Diliman

 

FICTION

 
 
 
 
 
 

by LAKAN UMALI

 

The Gray Parable 

by JADE CARMEL ENCABO

 

Wayward 

by SELLENA GONZALES

 

Sometimes, Family 

by SOPHIE VILLADOLID GONZALEZ

 

Mistress of Hell 

by SHAINA JANE

 

Mama and Francheska 

by SHANEN LANZ “VIENNA” MAGSOMBOL

 

Dadi’s Spirit Went Missing 

by NOAH OPO

 

Deliverance 

by CASTLE PASCASIO

 

The Departure Lounge 

by VICO SATOR

 

 

POETRY

 
 
 
 
 

by MARK ANTHONY CAYANAN

 

from Henry

by ANGELICA YSABELLE P. CAPILI

 

Proxy

by ANGELICA YSABELLE P. CAPILI

 

At the Market Place

by KIKO CARAMAT 

 

Teen art

by ALYANAH-ELISE CORTES

 

Good dog, bad dog 

by ALYANAH-ELISE CORTES

 

Baptism as night swim

by ALYANAH-ELISE CORTES

 

One More Chance

by CW 120 THX

 

Geloy’s Villanelle

by CW 120 THX

 

 

 

Now: My Recent Attempt at Pho

by AKI DIAZ

 

The Seraphic Ruin

by LJ FAMATIGAN

 

Family of 9

by KAGAN LIDUA

 

The Day Gravity Got Tired

by KURT NATHAN

 

The Town that Ages Backward

by KURT NATHAN

 

What I Will Not Say

by KURT NATHAN

 

One/Two

by GABRIEL ORDOÑEZ 

 

Last Supper

by KALID AARON PRIVADO

 

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION 

by CHRISTINE LAO 

 

To Exist in Mow’s Bar,


Matalino

by MIKA THERESE BIARES 

 

Metamorphosis

by RUTH CASTILLO

 

Moving from        “E”

by ANTONIO CINCO

 

Fishbones of Memory Stew

by MARIA MARIANO

 

Longing for Matahong

by JERIC NEPOMUCENO

  

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