Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Fundamentals of Creative Writing is a marvelous textbook that combines useful technical advice on craft with beautiful practical examples in her own stories. Brainard's treatments of writerly voice and left brain/right brain theory as it connects to writing are among the best available in...
College sophomore Hannah Maquiling doesn't know why everyone tells her their love problems. She's never even had a boyfriend, but that doesn't stop people from spilling their guts to her, and asking for advice. So maybe it shouldn't be a surprise when the cutest guy in school tells her that she's going to have to take...
Sampler of poems by Paolo Manalo from the collections E is for Epal (2018), Happily Ever Ek-ek (2019), and Jolography Retconned (2020).
Lola Sensia is a wizard in the kitchen - transforming the most ordinary of ingredients into the most sumptuous of dishes. But is she really who she is?
A young man discovers love, both beautiful and painful, as he travels through old towns in the Philippines.
Jonathan "Tantan" (17) is stubborn about love. He believes he's too young for it and doesn't want it. But one day a new boy named Ben (17) arrives in their town with an undeniable charisma and mystery. Tantan along with his friends Justine (16), Paloma (17) and Akihiro (17) are drawn to him. They reach a consensus. An...
Rain De Castro has been in love with her best friend, Mark Velasco, for almost the entire time she has known him, but she's clearly in the friend zone because he's happily in a relationship. Or so she thought, until the news of his break-up reaches her. Now that Mark's single again, she decides that it's time to get o...