Exploding Galaxies announces its new imprint, e.g., dedicated to short-form writing, on Friday, March 20.
Starting off as a bi-monthly journal, e.g. has now evolved into an imprint that will be home to an annual anthology of collected writing and standalone books. e.g. Anthology 1, the publishing house’s first title under e.g., features contributions from contemporary Philippine writers and artists, including writers Glenn Diaz, Vicente L. Rafael, and Lisandro E. Claudio, and artists Lesley-Anne Cao and Kitty Taniguchi, among others.
About the Anthology
“e.g., provides a home to fresh, focused pieces of writing—experiments, explorations, and false starts—no less elegant, nor less refreshing, for being so curious.”
e.g. Anthology 1 is a collection of works from e.g.’s maiden year. Among the featured works are the intimate writings of the late Vicente L. Rafael, an eminent postcolonial historian whose academic works shaped Philippine and Southeast Asian historiography.
This inaugural issue of the annual e.g. anthology was created in conversation with the publishing house’s book catalogue—Exploding Galaxies’ canon of lost Philippine classics. This year’s anthology aims to widen the field in which the press discusses their classics and to reinvest contemporary meaning into the country’s long literary tradition, renewing the connections between past and contemporary, classic and experimental, lost and deleted. Together, Exploding Galaxies and e.g. constellate pinpricked pendants within what is a much larger, richer world of letters—of endless other for examples extending outward from any single work.
Contributors
Writing by: Glenn Diaz, Vicente L. Rafael, Lisandro E. Claudio, Angelo R. Lacuesta, Alvin Yapan, Christian Benitez, Charlie S. Veric
Artwork by: Lesley-Anne Cao, Kawayan de Guia, Gary-Ross Pastrana, The Weather Bureau, Czar Kristoff J.P., Kitty Taniguchi
Starting 25 March, readers may purchase copies of the book through the Exploding Galaxies website, and in bookstores around the Philippines from mid-April onwards.
