Anvil Publishing Inc: 184 books

The success of the Ladlad I and Ladlad II gave leeway for editors J. Neil Garcia and Danton Remoto to collect more captivating gay stories across the country. Now on its third anthology, Ladlad III gives new light and angle to gay writing in the Philippines. Packed with diverse stories, poems, and essays, this new companion to the series brings reimagination and modernity.

Beatriz Robles’ A Sensual World offers suggestive vignettes that will tease your imagination. Words create images. Let the words take a life of their own and enjoy playing with them in your mind before an answer is revealed with each turn of the page.

“Cosplay photography sat in the cusp of two schools of thought: pop culture (content), and photography (execution). It wasn’t enough for me to just take pictures: I wanted to discover what made the characters tick, and the techniques used to make them come to life. I had to go to the source beyond...

Crazy things keep happening to Pam Pastor and she is left with no choice but to chronicle them. In this second collection of stories, she tells us: How Pong Pagong ended her shot at stardom; Why her grandma burned all her trolls when she was in sixth grade; How she terrorized...

Beneath the glitz and glamor of Kyusi, the country’s City of Stars, there lurks insidious violence. In four thought-provoking and thrilling stories, dauntless lady crime fighter SJ Tuason combines brain with brawn as she seeks to solve the cases of an ex-financial scammer murdered in a public park;...

What did Jose Rizal eat? What food did he write about? Did he hunger for bagoong or mango jam while overseas? This book shares stories collected from Rizal’s autobiography, works penned by him, biographies written about him by admirers, interviews of people who knew him, and accounts written about...

Graduating photography student Dakota Collins is heartbroken when Luka Visraya, bassist of popular indie rock band Vicious and Dakota’s object of affection, admits he is still in love with someone else. After her one-month photography stint/school project with the band, and Luka’s confession,...

El Filibusterismo continues the story of Crisostomo Ibarra in the person of Simoun, the rich jeweler, who returns to the Philippines after a 13-year old absence. Simoun, who is plotting a revolution against the Spanish government and attempts to rescue Maria Clara from the nunnery, will do what it takes to avenge the wrongs that were done to him.

It wasn’t love at first sight. It wasn’t even lust at first, or second, or third. Alexa and Ivan are just friends—roommates, at that. For him, she’s a scheming, social-climbing she-devil. For her, he’s a stiff, boring know-it-all. Should be fun, right? Of course, things don’t ever...

Riverrun is a rite-of-passage novel in the life of a young gay man growing up in a colorful and chaotic dictatorship. Shaped in the form of a memoir, it glides from childhood to young adulthood in chapters written like flash fiction and vignettes, along with a recipe, a feature article, excerpts from poems, and vivid songs.

A novel about a jetsetting, intelligent, and driven Filipina named Maxine. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, she is a mother of three and has just survived both an acrimonious divorce and a twit of a husband. Now free and approaching fifty, she reflects on and narrates her various love affairs...

A "dugtungan" (collaborative) novel by five established Filipina writers, this is a story about Filipinas with different backgrounds who investigate the history of a common ancestor and along the way deal with their own lack of wisdom and love.

his is a collection of short pieces from the author’s self-proclaimed crazy life, what happens between deadlines at the daily where she writes for.

A collection of short stories by B.S. Medina Jr., winner from the Philippines of the 1994 South East Asia Write Award. Stories in this collection appeared in national weeklies: “Long Night” and “Wedding Fire” in Sunday Times Magazine; “Deep Earth” in Philippines Free Press; “Rebirth,”...