Gena Myrtle P. Terre

22 October 2013, 9:20 p.m. - NATIONAL Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose urged aspiring writers to be resilient in upholding the truth even amid public criticism, as he opened the 15th edition of Inkblots, the UST National Campus Journalism Fellowship.

“It’s hard to tell the truth in this country where there is an absence of a critical tradition and where hypocrisy is so pervasive,” Jose told more than 300 Inkblots fellows in his keynote speech at the Albertus Magnus Auditorium yesterday.