Paper Trail Projects

04/02/2025

Hello! We are alive, working on being well, and getting ready to make a couple of books and zines happen by the end of this year (more on this soon!). We will also take some time off from August to October to get a lot of our own writing done (fingers crossed), so this is turning out to be a good year—which we say of every year we are able to create things that matter to us in the company of the people and animals we care about.

We are shipping the next batch of orders from our catalogue by mid-Feb, so if you would like to order any of our books, now is the time! To order, just fill out our form on linktr.ee/papertrailprojects

We have four titles currently available:

BRAVE NEW WORDS (Vol. 1, various authors, edited by Adam David) - the first of a yearly release developed from submissions to an open call, this is an anthology of exuberant thinking about the ever ongoing apocalypse and its inevitable end

WHEN THE WORLD ENDED I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE FOREST, Glenn Diaz - an extended meditation on the forest, nature, Philippine history, unchecked progress, ecological collapse, literary and bureaucratic narratives, and knowledge production (among others), also an unsent love letter

MODUS, Conchitina Cruz - tiny poems from the pandemic lockdown, when company had to be imagined and the company that emerged was a slightly drunk, slightly high lady in a dressing gown who found everything slightly funny

ELSEWHERE HELD AND LINGERED, Conchitina Cruz - poetry about marriage and its discontents

Thank you to our dear readers, friends with such enduring patience for this shoestring operation. We are so grateful to be read.

30/01/2025

"Our open letter issued to FBM last September that requested actions of redress regarding Palestine remains unacknowledged. In the letter, international publishers asked FBM to denounce Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s writers, students, schools, universities, libraries, archives, and book publishers in its ongoing genocide. UN experts have condemned Israel’s 'domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, cultural genocide and, more recently, ecocide,' while FBM remains silent.

"Publishers made four basic demands of the Fair:

* condemn Israel’s regime of genocide in Gaza and affirm the human rights of the Palestinian people;

* refuse collaboration with complicit Israeli book publishers, including by barring their participation in the Frankfurt Book Fair;

* denounce the attacks on Palestinian writers, journalists, and academics—and acknowledge that such attacks are part of a genocidal project seeking to erase Palestinian life and culture;

* and create programming that prominently features Palestinian writers, publishers, and narratives.

"A year after the International Court of Justice’s ruling of a plausible genocide, and nine months after the UN’s report of Israel’s scholasticide in Gaza, the Frankfurt Book Fair has shown no sign of fulfilling the above calls nor of slowing its support for Israeli apartheid."

More here: https://publishersforpalestine.org/2025/01/30/international-publishers-call-for-a-boycott-of-the-frankfurt-book-fair/

06/12/2024

Magandang umaga! May mga kopya pa ng mga zine at ilang libro ng Paper Trail Projects na mahahanap sa BLTX mamayang 1PM to 9PM sa Sikat, QC, at may libreng kopya ng dalawang tulang Palestina na sinalin namin nitong Pebrero. Limited quantities pero iaupload naman dito para mabasa ng mas nakararami. Ingat po sa biyahe, at kitakits mamaya!

01/12/2024

Yesterday’s launch went better than expected! We still have copies of all four volumes of Adam David’s BRIEF EXERCISES IN YOUTHFUL BLASPHEMY so if you’re interested, here are the PDFs if you prefer softcopies > https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1TvkwhPpoXGvz7DAoS_LJDbsLTCTnXP9f?usp=sharing < but if you prefer hardcopies, we’ll have them available December 7 at BLTX!

30/11/2024

Nasa Cubao Shoe Expo kami ngayon, nagbebenta ng zines mula 3PM hanggang 9PM. Guaranteed na walang Palanca-winning at Wattpad-published na akda! We have all the worst-sellers that you’ll need for Christmas! SABAW SA CUBAO, BOW represent!

12/11/2024

Proceeds from copies of BRAVE NEW WORDS VOL. 1 bought through our order form from today November 12 to November 26 will go to fundraising efforts for the survivors of Typhoon Kristine in Bicol. Our BLTX organiser friends in Naga will be in charge with the doling out of the funds to where they are most needed on the ground.

The order form is accessible through our Linktree > https://linktr.ee/papertrailprojects < and will be fulfilled in batches as we receive the orders, or can be picked up in Studio Soup on November 30 or at BLTX on December 7.

22/10/2024

We’ll be organising a fundraising drive for Bicol later today, to last for a week. We’re still figuring out the details, but if any of you can and just plainly want to help out right now with no materialist strings attached, you can send cash donations through RUWA, a group we volunteer in and support.

07/09/2024

Hello! We are selling some books and postcards from our collection to raise funds for the care of our community cats! We feed over 20 cats and 1 dog daily and have had 6 girls spayed so far.

All books secondhand, most with clean pages (no marks), a few marked up with pen. All books at Php 500, all postcards at 3 for Php 100 (random selection). Link to PTP order form here > https://forms.gle/u9GYW8D3iV9LtnDNA < just please just type up the titles you want to order (you can also order PTP books if you want!).

24 hours from notice to settle payment, book/s go to next in line if payment not settled by the deadline. Buyer pays for shipping, will ship by Friday the 13th. Thank you!

01/09/2024

Last night’s BRAVE NEW WORDS Vol 1 book launch was great! It started early with twenty minutes watching the first episode of FELICITY, didn’t overstay its welcome as everyone was generous with their time despite the air conditioner gasping and choking in all the body heat, and fighting words about hope were shared by everyone. Salamat sa lahat ng pumunta! Fifteen of the thirty-three contributors were able to attend, and it was great finally seeing them in real life. Looking forward to reading more from them soon!

Lomi the cat wandered in wondering why there were so many people in her neighbourhood and decided to hang out and doze. Salamat sa Studio Soup Zine Library for hosting the launch! We’re planning on doing more happenings in real life in their space. Announcing one soon, for September! Support your local community of food and service and cultural workers - all workers! Care for one another and the world! Looking forward to seeing everyone again soon!

29/08/2024

BRAVE NEW WORDS VOL 1 book launch this Saturday night, 7PM at Studio Soup, Cubao Expo!

Contributors confirmed to be attending are Jasmine Cruz, Tilde Acuña, G Constantino, Catherine Orda, Francesca Mauricio, Harold David, Jerwin Bilale, Karlo Sevilla III, and Paolo Jose Cruz.

Contributors reading from the book will be Raiza Cabugwang, Normandale Tioco, Bernardine de Belen, Benjamin Ambros King Sumabat, Rudy, Maria Veloso, Athena Ramos, and Ronald Atilano.

Copies will be sold at the venue! Masking is encouraged! Tributes to our pre-colonial post-anthropocene entities are most welcome!

21/08/2024

BRAVE NEW WORDS Vol 1 booklaunch this coming August 31, 7PM, in Studio Soup at Cubao Expo! Some of the contributors will be there in the flesh and in the New Flesh (video)! We'll be selling copies but feel free to bring your own copies to have them signed if you want! Free for all! Masking is encouraged! Art by Rudy!

https://www.facebook.com/share/VUDbPFmtxHecwTy5/

09/08/2024

We’re shipping books to Book Store at 9506 in Cotabato and Mt Cloud in Baguio today, BRAVE NEW WORDS VOL 1 included! Also included are the last copies of Angeli Lacson’s UNBECOMING going to Mt Cloud. BRAVE NEW WORDS is also now available through our regular order form, link here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFwvtg7qnvVDMstO9NeE83Lk-nujG1m-bHUBeZEuzWZbZaWQ/viewform Cat not included!

02/08/2024

BRAVE NEW WORDS VOLUME ONE softlaunching tomorrow at BLTX: MGA BUANG NG WIKA, August 3 at Sikat Studio, QC, from 1PM to 9PM! P350 a copy! It’s a pretty good anthology!

31/07/2024

Last nine hours to pre-order our new book BRAVE NEW WORDS at P300 a copy! Soba says it’s a recommended read for her! Link here: https://forms.gle/Yn6hM4VPTWYxYcjMA

27/07/2024

All copies of BRAVE NEW WORDS VOL 1 arrived a week earlier than we expected, so this is a happy surprise. It feels great to finally see it printed! We’ll be sorting out all the orders soon. For people who filled-out the pre-order form but feel they haven’t received a response from us yet, check your spam folders! The book is P300 pre-order price! It’ll be available at BLTX this August 3, but sold at its normie price of P350. For people who have yet to order, here’s the pre-order form: https://forms.gle/Yn6hM4VPTWYxYcjMA

25/07/2024

Farming and fishing communities that help produce food for the country have been dealt a s**t hand the last few days, and here’s one more way to lend them a helping hand. Any amount will help! Feel free to share!

CALL FOR DONATIONS FOR PEASANT COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY TYPHOON CARINA

Typhoon Carina has devastated the homes and livelihood of farmers and fisherfolk in Laguna and Cavite. In partnership with Sagip Kanayunan, Amihan Women and Rural Women Advocates urgently call on your support to help them rebuild and recover.

In-kind donations can be canned goods, noodles, or coffee. Message us for details on where they can be sent. You may send your monetary donations through the GCash QR code in the pubmat.

25/07/2024

As the water levels fall and the clouds finally clear over the Philippines, most of us will be needing help to recover from the aftermath of Carina and state-enabled corporate greed. Here are some QR codes gathered by our friends from Makò Micro-Press for people who have enough to share with people who have lost food, shelter, clothes, family, friends. Help when able! Even sharing is helping. Ingat sa lahat! Kitakita soon.