Category: Community
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Launch at the FilBookFest
Thank you to everyone who came out to support the press’s first release of GALLEON DREAMING at the 8th Filipino Book Festival in San Francisco, California. We sold 56 copies from our first printing at the event both at our booth and through the PAWA marketplace, where 20% of the…
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Learn more about the authors
Camilla Andrea is a scientist-turned-author fueled by coffee, cookies, and cheese. She loves listening to true crime podcasts, documentaries, and audiobooks while working on her drafts; they help her drown the chaos happening inside her head. J.J.S. Cleofas is a Filipino writer and seafarer whose work explores labor, migration, masculinity,…
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Accepted Contributing Authors and Poets for Sirena’s Song Announcement
(Lansing, Michigan) DILIM Press announces accepted participants to SIRENA’S SONG: An Anthology of Dark Fiction from the Philippine Diaspora, vol. 2. Billed as a collection of stories and poems exploring transformation and relationships with water, the book is slated to highlight all new work from contributing authors from the Philippines,…
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Your Cool Ninang tells you to Read Books!
DILIM Press is proud to partner with Your Cool Ninang and bring stickers and swag to the Filipino American International Book Festival. We learned more about Sarah and share her story here: DP: How did you come up with the idea for Your Cool Ninang? Your Cool Ninang: While I…
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Follow the FAHMS Booksta Tour October 2026
Greetings and happy Filipino American History Month. In celebration of the month, check out the #FAHMBookstaTour organized by Ate Marcela: From the organizer, AteMarcelaReads__ “WE ARE SO UP. This year I am so excited to be cohosting the #FAHMBookstaTour again this year with @filipinaauthorsbookclub! We have so many amazing creators…
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Enthusiasm
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…
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Find DILIM at the 8th Filipino American International Book Festival
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…
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Last call for submissions to Sirena’s Song
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,…
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Celebrating our first sale through the back-end tool!
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…
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Challenge, Collaboration, and Growth with our Cover Design
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…
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Visibility for Queer Pinoy authors for Filipino American History Month
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,…
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Five Questions from the 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,…
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The first version… is away!
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…
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For Authors – Everything we Request from authors
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…
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Supporting LGBTQIA+ Pinoy Authors and Poets
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.…