Sands and Coral is the historic student literary journal of Silliman University, based in Dumaguete City, Philippines. Founded as a platform for intellectual and artistic training, this 1963 volume captures an era of profound growth for the university’s writing community. Published just a year after the inception of the world-renowned Silliman National Writers Workshop, this edition directly reflects the structural influence of National Artist for Literature Edith L. Tiempo, who served as the journal's adviser. The content showcases a highly sophisticated cross-pollination of Western academic frameworks and local realities, highlighted by critical essays like Frank G. Flores’s "Milton and the Jungians" alongside creative fiction and poetry rooted in the Visayan landscape. Featuring early works from emerging voices such as Myrna Peña-Reyes and T. Valentino Sitoy, Jr., this volume serves as an invaluable archival witness to mid-20th-century post-war Philippine creative writing in English. It documents the institutional history that permanently established Dumaguete as a vital sanctuary for the country's literary arts.
Sands and Coral, 1963