Seeking Light: DILIM Press Blog

If you ever wondered how a title gets from idea all the way to execution and why it’s so incredibly difficult to get work into print, here is our behind-the-scenes look at the current state of the Galleon Dreaming book (our first to put into production). First of all, this…

Here’s our schedule for the FilBookFestival, we look forward to connecting with you. Editor Monica T. S. Flores and authors J. J. de Melo and Maleia Mortis will plan to be in attendance, and we’ll have gifties and swag from Creatures of Kwento, Kampeon Water, Your Cool Ninang, and Nika’s…

We are so grateful for everyone who has taken the time to submit flash fiction, poetry, and stories to Sirena’s Song. We’ll be closing out the submissions queue and moving into production on September 30, 2026. Please get your submissions in only via Duosuma (duosuma.dilimpress.com). We only accept submissions there,…

The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step.We’re very happy to report on our first sale of a title through our back-end reporting! Effective September 4, 2026 we sold a first copy of Rainbow Dreams, which made it to the production process a week prior. We are so…

It takes so much vision to be able to communicate what you want, and the collaboration here at DILIM Press with the editor, illustrator, and contributors has been a joyful process that has encouraged each of us to “step up.” How we do anything is how we do everything, and…

It’s no doubt that people living in the intersection of multiple Venn diagrams have so much to discuss and are the ultimate emissaries: they’re able to communicate with multiple types of people, and have the ability to understand and empathize across multiple perspectives. At the recent Chicago Balikbayan Book Club,…

DILIM Press teammates have been fortunate to have a chance to work collaboratively with the Rizal Center Balikbayan Book Club in Chicago and would like to share questions they and other readers have for authors of Filipino fiction. If you’re a writer, creator, comic illustrator, or author of any kind,…

We’ve pressed the “upload” button on the secure server to our very collaborative partner printing press in Illinois! What this means is a first run of books will be shipped out and we’ll be using these as advance review copies and to fulfill orders for Kickstarter supporters and a limited…

Hello authors! Thank you so much for your interest in publishing with DILIM Press. Having gone through the first anthology production process, here are some items that we anticipate you’ll need as you embark on your writing career. Finally, a great piece means the difference between publication and not. Share…

We celebrate and appreciate all who are creating literature and sharing stories of the queer Pinoy experience. We’ve collected work from authors who are sharing their work in Galleon Dreaming in a special edition to be available at the Filipino American International Book Festival, in San Francisco October 17-18, 2026.…

DILIM Press is happy to present the work of Kampeon Water. Kampeon means “champion” in the Tagalog language, and they’ve been Kickstarter supporters of the first anthology in the DILIM series as well as product sponsors. Founder Chris Galang took some time to answer our questions about running a consumer…

If you’re on a Kindle we invite you to sign up for an e-version of Galleon Dreaming at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VJW72C This e-publication will be made available in 2027. Thank you for your early support!

Celine Dabao offers collage as a way to commemorate an event or special release. Find her at @inkcendiary and on Tiktok @bookish_bellini.  DP: Tell us a little bit about your process: Inkcendiary: Journaling is an intuitive, meditative process for me that occurs when I most need an outlet for creative…

B. C. Vidal Jr. hails from the Philippines, where he first fell in love with literature. He moved to the US in 2006 and now lives with his family in North Carolina. When he is not at his day job, he can likely be found weaving stories or wading streams.…

Maleia Mortis is a queer Filipinx-American experimental poet based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their poems have appeared in Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, BuliLit Magazine by Sampaguita Press, and Datura Literary Journal.  Readers can find more of their writing on their poetry blog, mxmortis.wordpress.com.  DILIM: We wanted to ask…