GUMIL Filipinas, or Gunglo Dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano iti Filipinas, is the umbrella organization of Ilocano writers with chapters in the different Ilocano-speaking provinces in the country as well as abroad.
Created in 1968, the association endeavors to preserve the Ilocano literary, artistic, and cultural heritage as well as to enhance the intellectual creativity and writing craft of the Ilocanos. Its objectives are four-fold:
- To provide a forum in which Ilocano writers can undertake common and cooperative efforts to improve their craft of writing literary, historical, research and other works;
- To enrich Ilokano literature and cultural heritage as phases of the national identity by encouraging the members to concentrate on writing extensively and intensively about the social, economic, cultural, and other aspects of growth and development among the Ilokanos through literature, history, research, or the like;
- To publish books of poetry, short stories, essays, novels, plays, radio drama, historical accounts, research and critical studies, and other writings; and
- To assist each member in pursuing his/her writing career and in fulfilling his life as a member of Philippine society.