An island narrative can be about storms and floods, but also about the joys of belonging. A poem about the sound of a banca paddle. A memory of seashell gathering as a child. An essay about the vanishing beach where you once swam. Even fiction that imagines mangroves returning to stand guard again.
Whether you live in a farm town, a fishing village, or a high-rise condo, you carry an island story. These stories give shape to the way Filipinos imagine land, sea, and community.
Do you have a flood story? On this island, we have one sad one, and every Filipino seems to have a rainy season saga.
Writing as Survival, Writing as Memory
Creative writing is not just about art, it’s also about survival. By telling our stories, we record how we’ve lived through storms, disasters, and slow changes in the environment. By remembering, we resist forgetting.
And if you want to go further, you can begin shaping these memories into a memoir. It can be simple, it can be slow, but it can also be healing. Pageawriter Online offers a course called Paged Memoir: a space where you can learn how to turn everyday experience into art, and memory into testimony.
Where is your origin? From what shore, what river, what mountain path? Let us read, and work together on your island story.
