#literary

Oyez Review Volume 53

The 2026 issue of Oyez Review is live. For this issue, we focused on previously published work from now defunct literary magazines.

The Lighthouses of Our Lives: Father’s Day 2026

In Filipino culture, our mothers are considered as the light of our homes (“ilaw ng tahanan”). She not only shines her bright light in the…

Ode to Orange

Paying homage to this weird, ugly color.

Trump Catastrophe

When Trump is gone . . . .

Great Depression?

Another Great Depression? Or worse? It can happen, and this time it would be obviously, directly, politically, stupidly, and evilly caused.

The Power of Connection — The Power Illusion

Multimedia Essay of Luis Jaramillo's The Witches of El Paso.

The Far Reaching North

This can be read forward and downward

Literary: Been a while

It’s been a while…

Why Society Isn’t a Utopia Yet: A Sociological Analysis of Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From...

Literary: Earth

I was envied by other celestials for being the only planet having mortals residing on its surface. I can’t even believe how I was so lucky…

Literary: Archive #479952278

In this world full of living biological organisms, I existed. Created by the greatest minds, I grew up being monitored, labeled, examined…

The Faint Illusion of Unity

By Victoria Cooper

Rule of Three

Can you figure out how this poem is encoded without me telling you?

Philippine Book Festival returns with a stronger commitment in 2026

The biggest platform for writers, illustrators, and readers is back

The New Prometheus by Devin Xiao — June 7

“An age of darkness I lived”

Cocktails for Writers: Libations that Fueled Literary Legends

Writers and alcohol have long shared a storied relationship, one filled with iconic figures and infamous libations. From intimate bars in…

January Literary Festival Prompts

These Literary Festival Writing Prompts are open to all Writers

The Analysis of Literary Functions of the Short Story, Entitled “Mariana” by Erni Aladjai

Tittle: Mariana

Literary and Painting rights sponsoring

My name is Monthome as French Founding author of New Modern Thinking (NMT) acting and writing outside all media agitation and anonymously…

Taguan

Isang araw ay sisibol muli ako at yayabong, at sana sa panahong iyo’y magbalik ka upang sumilong sa aking lilim.

Disyembre: Petsa de Pandemya

Pag-ibig pa rin ba ang handog na sanlaksang sakit: ng suntok, sipa, at halik na pilit?

Kasampung Pananampalataya

Ang totoong pagsamba ay wala sa tahanan ng Ama.

A Speech to the Graduating Class of 2021

To people around me, I was simply going through a phase, and “it will pass.”

The Storm That Left Us Behind

Like any god, it seemed he wanted my faith too, after all.

Kabataan at Pandemya

Kung si Inang Bayan ay makapagsasalita ang himig ba niya’y ating pakikinggan?

Perpetual in Film

mauunang dumilim itong dibdib bago ang paligid at ang pinilakang-tabing

Si Aileen, Alien

makina na ba ang bago mong kasintahan?

Orange Dawn

For he was my relief beyond grief / For he was like dawn that never came into day

‘Sonnet 3’

“My heart is yours (do whatever you will) break it if it would please you.”

For When You Can’t

‘Faster and faster you will fall. You will plunge into the possibilities.’