Category: Community
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Open invitation to submit to Under the Volcano
We are in active pre-production for our third volume, “Under the Volcano” and have commissioned artwork from artist Raf Banzuela to envision and ideate this piece. If you are interested in science fiction and exploring this theme with us, please reach out using our “submit.dilimpress.com” link, which leads to Duosuma.…
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Monsters in our Midst, with Nikki Stinson
Nikki Stinson is sharing some of her background and creative process as we learn more about her work. Her story “Life Among Manananggals” is in DILIM Press’s inaugural publication Galleon Dreaming, available in 2027. DILIM: What are your earliest memories of writing or creating? NS: When I was around three…
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In Hope and Love with Faith Lakasan
Faith Lakasan is in our upcoming book “Galleon Dreaming” and we checked in with her for her ideas about creativity and how she engages with fiction and poetry. DILIM: What are your earliest memories of writing or creating?FL: In grade four, I loved the poetry project my class made before…
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Kickstarter Funded! Moving into Production
We started a Kickstarter to support production costs on June 12, 2026 and we are so grateful for the early support. Fifty-five backers contributed to send $2000 towards the final printing costs so we are fully funded with our Kickstarter as of today, June 22, 2026. This is such a…
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Award-winning Global Filipino Team Launches Dark Fiction Anthology
(Lansing, Michigan) DILIM Press collaborators launch the inaugural anthology, Galleon Dreaming: An Anthology of Dark Fiction from the Philippine Diaspora in October 2027, with a lineup of authors from the Philippines and beyond borders. Twenty-five contributors submitted stories and poems from around the world: View all contributors: https://dilimpress.com/galleon-dreaming The book’s…
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Galleon Dreaming: Title Frames
If you’d like to support, learn about, or read any of the following authors and poets, please feel free to share these title frames widely. These stories and poems will be available in the regular release as well as in a special early founders edition only available from the Kickstarter,…
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Open Invitation to submit to Sirena’s song, volume 2 in our Anthology series
Now that we’ve understood the mechanisms and tools of how to work a submissions queue, we’ve opened the submissions process for our next volume in the DILIM anthology series. We’d like to build a home for fiction and especially speculative fiction, magical realism, dark fantasy, horror, mystery, and cross-genre and…
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Contributing Authors
We are so grateful to all our contributors for taking a chance on our small independent press. These twenty-five authors and poets have brought together a new world. Our contributors live all over the globe and all write from a distinctly Filipino-informed experience. Learn more about their work in: https://dilimpress.com/galleon-dreaming…
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Samuel Marzioli Horrifies us
Learn more about Samuel Marzioli We’re thrilled to have caught up with Samuel Marzioli on his writing career to date. From Samuel: I have two Filipino folklore inspired stories in my short story collection, Hollow Skulls and Other stories, titled “Multo” and “Pagpag.” The legendary Levar Burton read an early…
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Sending hope to those in Mindanao
We are sending all our support and condolences to those affected by the earthquake. If you make a donation at any amount, to any of the relief agencies, please accept a heartfelt and beautiful poem by our contributor Faith Lakasan. If you have donated to Mindanao charity efforts at any…
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Introduction to Janela
We’re so grateful to Janela Mauricio for joining the team, here’s some questions and answers with her. Question: Welcome, Janela, it’s great to have you, please tell us a bit about yourself. Answer: Hi, I’m Janela! I’m currently a third-year Creative Writing major at Ateneo de Manila. I come from…
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Traversing Genres with Victor Manibo
Last May 16, 2026, DILIM Press Editor Nikki Flores had the chance to sit down with author Victor Manibo to talk about the latter’s latest gothic horror novel, The Villa, Once Beloved. You can watch the conversation here: OR read the transcript: NF: Welcome, everybody! My name’s Nikki Flores, and today…