PAWN PRESS

14/11/2024

Join us this afternoon for an educational discussion on Philippine social realities! We'll discuss Philippine society, the main issues plaguing the nation, and the rich history of the people's struggle against oppressors and exploiters. The educational discussion will be held at the UPC kiosks at 1 pm. Feel free to join and tag along a friend or more! See you there! 🤍🤍

12/11/2024

Daghang salamat, patrons!

19/10/2024

Selected PAWN PRESS titles will be available at Lost Books Cebu along with other Cebuano books. Catch their soft opening tomorrow (Monday, October 21).

07/10/2024

07/10/2024

Selected Pawn Press titles will be available on Lost Books Cebu soon. We're excited for this. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Follow their page to get the latest updates.

12/09/2024

In commemoration of the proclamation of Martial Law, HOW TO PAINT AND WRITE AT GUNPOINT is a collective zine-making activity and a discussion on the Marcos dictatorship, its roots, and how the conditions that gave rise to its persistence to this day.

Hosted by Andres Sugbu in partnership with Drawing Class Foundation and Palihang Neil Doloricon, this event is intended to facilitate a collective mode of artmaking as well as conversations on present-day societal issues such as censorship, increasing militarization and human rights violations, budget cuts in social services, widespread unemployment, sinking wages, and skyrocketing prices.

This will be conducted at the Jose T. Joya Gallery Sanctum on September 14, 1-4 pm. The workshop is FREE and the participants are highly encouraged to bring their own materials (dry). Paper will be provided by ANDRES. The output from this activity will be compiled into one zine and it will be exhibited alongside the works for 1081.

08/08/2024

08/08/2024

(Si JD nahimong fellow sa Cebu Young Writers Studio. Magsusulat usab siya sa Ang Suga— pangkampus nga mantalaan sa Cebu Normal University. Ning bag-o lang, nahimo siyang fellow sa Bathalad-Kagis Workshop 2018. Kini ang kinaunhan niyang sugilanon nga...

08/08/2024

𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦

𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽
December 7-8, 2024

The Call for Submissions to the 4th SCNWW officially opens!

Sunday Club opens submissions for every emerging writer from all over the Philippines, especially those with Visayan and Mindanaoan roots, to be part of the 4th Sunday Club National Writers Workshop.

Nine (9) fellowship slots are available for emerging writers limited to those who have not yet attended any national writers’ workshop. Like the previous Sunday Club workshops, this is still aimed at promoting cultivation among writers who need to step up and be confident in presenting themselves on a national level.

To be considered, submissions in all regional languages, English, or Filipino:

Poetry: a suite of three (3) poems;

Fiction: one (1) short story of 10-15 pages; or two (2) works of flash fiction;

CNF: one (1) creative nonfiction (preferably personal and non-research works) of 10-15 pages

Submissions will be accepted in the following format: (1) manuscript in MS Word Document format (font: Arial or Times New Roman, size 12, double-spaced (except for Poetry) on a Letter-size bond paper with one-inch margins on all sides), (2) curriculum vitae.

However, please note that submitted works other than Sinugboanong Binisaya, English, and Tagalog, must have English translations.

We are accepting old and new works, published or unpublished, but must not have received any recognition from established literary award-giving bodies. The Sunday Club screening committee chose not to impose any theme or topic for this year's submissions.

Each applicant may send to any or all genres (Poetry, Fiction, or Creative Nonfiction), but is limited to only one submission per genre.

Here is the application form:
https://forms.gle/yS8VkmbsXWVAfagk7

Send your submissions through the link provided above. The deadline will be on August 31, 2024.

Further inquiries must be addressed to Ava Arnejo, the Workshop Director with phone number 09604213722, through the official Sunday Club page, or through this email: [email protected].

Padayon. Dayon. Magmabungahon.

08/08/2024

MAGPAHIGAYON ang BATHALAD SUGBO og tigi sa balak sa adlaw sa anibersaryo niini. Abli kini alang sa tanang miyembro (gawas sa opisyales sa grupo) nga interesado nga mosalmot. Ang mahukman nga mga mananaog makadawat og sertipiko (Dr Juvenal Tiago Jabel Memorial Awards) ug ganti nga salapi.

Dia ang lima ka tamdanan sa tigi:

1. Kinahanglan nga matuod nga miyembro sa Bathalad Sugbo ang matag partisipante.

2. Kinahanglan nga makaparehistro ang matag partisipante sa tagdumala sa tigi.

3. Kinahanglan nga mohatag og kopya sa ilang mga balak ang matag partisipante sa mga huwes.

4. Kinahanglan nga basahon sa matag partisipante ang ilang mga balak.

5. Kinahanglan nga adunay bawon nga, porlomenos, tulo sa ilang mga kinakusgan nga balak ang matag partisipante.

Ang dili motuman sa tamdanan awtomatik nga taktakon sa tagdumala sa tigi. Hukman ang kalihokan sa pipila ka opisyales ug kanhi opisyales sa Bathalad Sugbo. Tulo lang ka partisipante ang pilion nga mananaog.

Nota: Aron makaparehistro kamo isip partisipante, pagpadala lang palihog og mensahe dinhi sa atong page nga buot kamo nga mosalmot. Sa Agosto 15 ang deadline sa pagparehistro niiini.

¡Viva Bathalad!

15/02/2024

UWAHING MGA KOPYA SA Naabot na gyod gikan sa PAWN PRESS ang uwahing mga kopya sa Surumawa. Puwerte pang sinawa sa hapin. 🤩

Sa ganahan magpareserba, padalhi dayon ko og mensahe kay wala nay madungag nga imprinta niini, adto na ta sa Ebook nga mapalit sa sunod nga buwan. Daghan kaayong salamat ug wala pay katunga sa tuig, puwerteng hurota gyod sa mga kopya sa libro. Ami akaragad! 🙇‍♂️

15/02/2024

SURUMAWA by John Danté is considered as the first modern high fantasy novel written in Cebuano. Danté is a Palanca Award-winning author who worldbuilt Balmaya as the setting for his bizarre and tribal epics about deities, heroes, and monsters. Surumawa is the first of a planned seven-book-series which will culminate on a trilogy of a long tale of heroes spanning millennia. Danté is an emerging writer from Consolacion, Cebu.

The book is off 50 pesos from its standard retail price as Danté wants his book to be easily available to students. You can now buy a copy for 300 pesos each (+shipping). Limited copies left.

Contact Balmaya or John Danté for your copis.

12/02/2024

WE NEED URGENT HELP
for the Medical Expenses of Victor Padilla

We are asking your help to fundraise for Sir Vic's medical expenses to buy his antibiotics, painkillers, and cleaning implements needed after his operation. He was rushed to Vicente Sotto Hospital in Cebu City last January 26, 2024 (after suffering abdominal pains for three days and almost dying) due to acute complicated appendicitis, and he was operated on January 28.

Please send donations via GCASH to:
(c/o) BIENVENIDO SALGADO
0919 756 8376

Sir Vic was finally discharged from the hospital last February 4, but his medication must continue to avoid infection. He has not yet fully recovered and is often stuck in bed due to the operated wound, and he is still weakened.

Sadly, Sir Vic does not have an immediate family whom he can turn to, that is why a few of his literary friends are looking after him, seeing to his needs. We are also asking for your help so that we can buy his medicines (Moxifloxacin, Prostasan, painkillers, gauze and plasters, etc). We have not yet completely bought everything he needs right now.

We are asking the community to help an artist in need so that he can continue his project on a seven-book series on Philippine historical fiction. Sir Victor Padilla is a member of BATHALAD-Sugbo as well as a novelist from Cebu City. He is the author of The Flores De Mayo Rebellion of 1879, which was published by PAWN Press. The second book of the series is still on the way after a ton of research.

If you have other means to help, kindly contact BEN SALGADO or JOHN DANTÉ. We would greatly appreciate any means of aid.

18/01/2024

18/01/2024

There is an invitation circulating around calling for Filipino publishers and authors to participate in 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair.

We at PAWN PRESS declined because well, we're not really comfortable with consigments (we have one too many bad experiences). Also it asks for authors and publishers to submit physical copies of books to be 'considered' and selected by jurors for inclusions. So meaning, if the juror doesn't like your book then you're just going to waste your time and money sending these books on which they will now own.

But this. This is really the final nail on the coffin. We're saying no to an institution that is complicit to the suffering of Palestinian people, promotes censorship and shuts down dissenting voices.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/15/palestinian-voices-shut-down-at-frankfurt-book-fair-say-authors

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We also urge you to learn more about Strike Germany (https://strikegermany.org/)

STRIKE GERMANY is a call for international cultural workers to strike from German cultural institutions. It is a call to refuse German cultural institutions' use of McCarthyist policies that suppress freedom of expression, specifically expressions of solidarity with Palestine.

Open letter rebukes LitProm decision to cancel award ceremony for Adania Shibli due to ‘war started by Hamas’

03/01/2024

08/11/2023

🚨🚨Latest Updates: Final venue for our fundraiser event this Saturday will be at Cebu Making Space, 3rd Floor Mango Square Mall, Cebu City. We will be showcasing Palestinian 🇵🇸🍉 short films, simultaneous with live score/ DJ sets. Event starts at 8pm. All proceeds will go to FriendsofPMRS.org.

We are very grateful to Cebu Making Space for accommodating us with our last minute request for venue.

Featured films: In Vitro (27 mins), Bonboné (16 mins), Ave Maria (15 mins), Like Twenty Impossibles (16 mins), Palestine Underground (28 mins), The Present (24 mins), Fatenah (30 mins), Maradonna's Legs (24 mins)

DJ sets/Live score: , .cult , , and

Your presence and contribution, no matter how small it is, will send ripples thousands of miles across continents and seas; an entire nation 🇵🇸 deprived of their home and homeland. The Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish wrote, "as you think of others far away, think of yourself (say: If only I were a candle in the dark).” Let us hope that we may all offer a little light.


6000 AHKA Sari-sari Space

26/10/2023

Duha ka tuig na sukad nahuman og suwat ang Surumawa!

Kaniadtong Oktubre 26, 2021, nahuman ni John Danté og suwat (mga ingon arong orasa, alas nuybe sa gabii) ang unang draft sa tibuok estorya sa Surumawa.

Upat ka buwan nga gilingkoran ang Surumawa (apan putol-putol), ug unom ka buwan nga girebiso (naputol lang adtong bagyong Odette).

Naseryal dayon sa Bisaya Magasin ang kinse ka anib sa Surumawa gikan Mayo 2022 hangtod Hulyo 2023.

Karon, mao na kini ang bestselling book sa PAWN PRESS sa tuig 2023.

Mahimong mapalit ang librong Surumawa pinaagi ani nga link sa Shopee: https://shopee.ph/SURUMAWA-ni-John-Dante-i.391909012.18594316729?sp_atk=ab584a00-e5ac-46c6-bc4e-6770eb76b5d6&xptdk=ab584a00-e5ac-46c6-bc4e-6770eb76b5d6&fbclid=IwAR11oMmvxRBxVdDbjBynoaqJllkpr16lSI2eIJr-hvSft915n5rehGsE03w