The writers
The voices behind the shelves.
Novelists, poets, and storytellers — each one writing Filipino life in their own register, from moonlit houses to the last train home.
All authors
15 authors
Hankerism
Contemporary Romance
Some stories begin with grand adventures. Mine usually begin with ordinary days, quiet conversations, and someone becoming your favorite notification.
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Lakambini Reyes
Literary Fiction
Writes quiet literary fiction about memory, family, and the houses that keep both. Her chapters read like long afternoons in a coastal town.
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J. Salvador
Poetry
Writes prose poems shaped like letters to the dark — brownouts, candlelight, and the hour after the last jeepney.
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Noemi Bautista
Magical Realism
Tells stories in which impossible things happen politely, inside ordinary Philippine homes. Her houses have errands of their own.
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Clara Mendoza
Contemporary Romance
Writes slow, warm love stories that begin at flower stalls and take their time getting anywhere — on purpose.
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Rafael Lim
Contemporary Fiction
Rides the last train home and writes down everything the city was too tired to say out loud. Linked vignettes, wry and exact.
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Tomas Reyes
Mystery
Writes mysteries the way buildings keep records: precisely, patiently, and with a list for the things that have no form. The crime is always quieter than the silence around it.
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Emilio Santiago
Historical Fiction
Writes about coastal towns, changing flags, and the people history assigns to surviving. Formal cadence, salt air, and two calendars kept at all times.
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Bea Cruz
Young Adult
Writes rainy-season diaries for readers still figuring out who they are when nobody is asking them to be anything. Notebooks are sworn to secrecy.
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Elia Navarro
Fantasy
Retells the old stories from the inside — diwata, engkanto, the bargains our grandmothers half-remember — in a Filipino fantasy voice that treats myth as family history.
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Odette Ramas
Cozy Fiction
Keeps a secondhand bookshop and its opinions. Writes cozy fiction about the things people leave inside books, appraised honestly, held warm. The kettle is always on.
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Dain Villanueva
Thriller
Writes thrillers for the hour when the phone lights the ceiling. Interested in drafts folders, read receipts, and every technology we use to almost say things.
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Remedios Cua
Horror
Collects the rules small towns keep and writes down what they cost. Her horror never raises its voice; it knocks politely, and it can wait longer than you can.
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Migs Ferrer
Slice of Life
Sells insurance on weekdays and keeps lists on Sundays. Writes slice-of-life about ordinary paperwork — groceries, receipts, forms — and the enormous things it quietly holds.
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Mila Cruz
Fantasy
Builds stations between worlds and prices every ticket in memories. Portal fantasy with a conductor’s patience.
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