Category: Community
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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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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…
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Working toward kickstarter for community engagement
We are so close to the end of this pre-production phase including evaluating the remaining submissions, the submissions period closes when we reach our cap of 50 or when the date hits May 31, 2026, whichever is first. Next up, for Galleon Dreaming June 11, 2026: we’ll release our contributor…
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Transparency: budgeting
As part of our ongoing Transparency initiative, here are the fees paid out to date, as well as fees still owed: Here’s the rounded version: Paid Owe $233 $233 $38 $0 $56 $56 $66 $66 $488 $488 $18 $31 $400 $41 $35 $15 $331 $345 $21 $166 cover art: cover…
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Submit remaining pieces
We’re so close to finishing outstanding items in our submission queue and have a few more days left for any additional poems, short stories, and flash fiction. Here is what a typical submissions queue looks like. We have set up using “Duosuma” which is very common alongside “Submittable” and regular…
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Highlight of our editor’s piece “The Forty-first day” in Community of Literary Magazines and presses reading list
We’re thrilled to share that our editor has her piece recognized in the Asian Pacific American Heritage reading list for 2026. Also please investigate the following: Books: Eileen R. Tabios, Pagpag: The Dictator’s Aftermath in the Diaspora (Paloma Press, 2020) https://palomapress.org/pagpag/ E. P. Tuazon, A Professional Lola (Red Hen Press,…