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Alma Anonas-Carpio

Sea’s Reckoning

This story is dedicated to the brave soldiers manning the Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas Sierra Madre. Sending you soldiers the snappiest…

Jun 3

Jun 3

Memory and Freedom, a new book

I wrote my first book into my mid-30s, a cookbook, and my first novel a few years after that. I am very happy to annonce that I have marked…

Nov 8, 2023

Memory and Freedom, a new book

Nov 8, 2023

My mother, the swordsmith

Now that the scorch marks on the kitchen wall and ceiling are gone after several decades of seeing them daily, I am breathing easier and…

Sep 2, 2023

My mother, the swordsmith

Sep 2, 2023

Fly by Night and Other Kilig

Got a story out in a new anthology under the #MitolohiyaPH series of 8Letters, the very productive Philippines-based publisher that also…

Aug 13, 2023

Fly by Night and Other Kilig

Aug 13, 2023

Service as life, or, wala sila sa lolo ko

This is an editorial that was published in the Manila Standard on April 24, 1995, written by Amante Bigornia after a conversation between…

Apr 27, 2023

Service as life, or, wala sila sa lolo ko

Apr 27, 2023

My grandfather, the barrio doctor

I wrote this tl/dr Facebook post three years ago, in the thick of the pandemic lockdowns in the Philippines. It came up in my memories on…

Mar 27, 2023

Mar 27, 2023

Let’s talk about sex (scenes)

Saw a post on Twitter where someone was asking how to write a sex scene a few months back. That got me thinking about my process when I…

Mar 18, 2023

Mar 18, 2023

Finally, available in the PHL

Writing a novel is not easy, but it is satisfying. In my case, writing my first complete novel — the actual first novel stalled at chapter…

Feb 2, 2023

Finally, available in the PHL

Feb 2, 2023

River banks

Walked the banks Of your river Kids in tow. You walked unseen Beside us. I know.

Jan 27, 2023

Jan 27, 2023

How old do you feel?

Too old to take life lightly As the sky would take clouds. Not old enough for death, Or to not care whether I live or die.

Jan 27, 2023

Jan 27, 2023

Alma Anonas-Carpio

Alma Anonas-Carpio

Palanca winner (1994), Palanca judge (2001); treasurer, Manila Critics Circle and judge in the National Book Awards. Journalist, cook, catmom, mother to twins.

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