Career
Early in his career, Yuson received a writing fellowship to attend the National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental (1968). Yuson also has a FAMAS award and a Catholic Mass Media Award (CMMA) for Best Screenplay. He has been a documentary filmmaker and scriptwriter, as well as a book, magazine and newspaper editor and designer.
Yuson was also a Fellow at the International Writing Program in Iowa City, United States. in 1978.
The International Poetry Conference at the University of Hawaii in 1979. The Cambridge Seminar, University of Cambridge, in 1989.
The International Writers Retreat at Hawthornden Castle in Midlothian, Scotland, in 1990. The Hong Kong International Literary Festival in 2001 and 2006.
And the Sydney Writers" Festival in 2006.
He has also participated in many other literary conferences, seminars and festivals in Japan, China, Finland, Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore. He also serves as Philippines Editor for MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, published by the University of Hawaii. Yuson currently writes a literature and culture column for The Philippine Star.
He also teaches fiction and poetry at Ateneo de Manila University, where he holds the Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair in Creative Writing.
His two novels, "The Great Philippine Jungle Café" and "Voyeurs & Savages" are studies of Philippine culture.
