PAWN PRESS

07/01/2025

It is our belief that books can console, heal, and transform. So we are calling on the reading community of Cebu who may have books to spare to help fill up the library of My Bonita Home for Young Girls, a rescue center in Cebu City for young women who are victims of abuse.

You may drop your book donations at our bookshop from January 7 to January 24. Our location is on the ground floor of the CAO Mercado Building along Osmeña Boulevard. Our opening hours are 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM. If you live in Mandaue City, kindly contact Antonette () directly to drop off your books.

We will accept any books that are good for 9 to 20-year-olds. Thank you and keep spreading the love of reading!

04/12/2024

23/11/2024

attention! ⚠️we just dropped these super limited copies of POSTCRUDE vol 1 & 2 at . originally released in 2018 and 2022, respectively, these rare postcard books feature your favorite local artists' works. go grab it before it runs out.

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

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.