Short Publications

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Poetry

2009

• Storytellers, elimae. August 15, 2009.
• News About the End of the World, The Houston Literary Review. September 2009.
  REPRINT: Thursday Never Looking Back. December 20, 2012.
• Dreams After the Storm, Ruin and Resolve. December 2009.
  REPRINT: Basement Stories. August 2011. link.

2010

• Variations on the Expulsion from Eden, Philippines Free Press. 2010.
• Reportage, Philippines Graphic. January 18, 2010.
• Sodom Gomorrah, Writers’ Bloc. February 13, 2010.
  REPRINT: Stone Telling. March 2011. link.
  REPRINT: Thursday Never Looking Back. December 20, 2012.
• Night: Notes, Sunday Inquirer Magazine. February 21, 2010.
• Tour Guide. Philippines Free Press. April 10, 2010.
  REPRINT: Metro Serye. October 28, 2011.
• Day: Notes, High Chair. May 24, 2010
• Maps, Pedestal Magazine. August 21, 2010.
  REPRINT: Metro Serye. October 28, 2011.
• Bath Time, The Houston Literary Review. November 2010.
• Archaeology, Stone Telling. December 21, 2010.

2011

• Maps, Kritika Kultura Anthology of New Philippine Writing in English. March 2011.
• Sadness: A Catalogue, Philippines Free Press. June 11, 2011.
• Crime Scenes. Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry. September 2, 2011.
• Prayer, Stone Telling. September 27, 2011.
  REPRINT: Moment of Change. an Aqueduct Press anthology, edited by Rose Lemberg, May 2012.
  NOMINATION: Pushcart Prize. 2012
• Maps (Those of us who still remember), Metro Serye. October 28, 2011.

2012

• Notes, Blinds: PANTAS Tomo IX. January 2012.
• Architecture, Blinds: PANTAS Tomo IX. January 2012.
  REPRINT: The Cabinet. link.
• Elegy for the corridors, Philippines Free Press. March 17, 2012.
• Amaranthine,  Philippines Free Press. May 19, 2012.
• Hospital Work, Room Magazine. December 7, 2012.
• Notes on the Plagues, Thursday Never Looking Back. December 20, 2012.

2013

• Ten Truths, Neon. May 1, 2013.
• Somebody tell the river, Neon. May 1, 2013.
• Elegy for the lost minutes, Neon. May 1, 2013.
• Emergency Exits, Southern Pacific Review. December 2, 2013.

2014

• Morning (‘She waved but the child’), Morning (‘She folds the sheets’), Note to – (‘The terrifying thing about this is’), Note to – (‘You will reach across the distance’), Certainty, Kritika Kultura. August 31, 2014.

2015

• Whatever It Is That Comes With Us, The Cabinet Revival Issue. January 18, 2015.
• Stargazing, Southern Pacific Review. June 2015.
  NOMINATION: Best of the Net 2015
• The Royal Doors, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. November 2015.

2016

• What Waits, Neon Literary Magazine. February 29, 2016.
• Tiny Tragedies, Kitaab.org. December 26, 2016.

2020

• Sapantaha, Australian Multilingual Writing Project (Issue #4). June 22, 2020.

Short Stories

2007

• An Italian Dish, Story Philippines. August 2007.
• Caramel, Philippines Graphic. August 20, 2007.
• Two Daughters, Philippines Graphic. October 1, 2007.

2008

• Ida, Philippines Graphic. January 28, 2008.
• War-torn, Philippines Graphic. May 5, 2008.
• An Abduction by Mermaids, Philippines Free Press. April 26, 2008.

2009

• Incidental Light, Philippines Free Press. January 3, 2009.
  REPRINT: Basement Stories. October 2010. link.
• Parallel, Philippine Speculative Fiction IV. February 28, 2009.
  REPRINT: Expanded Horizons. November 3, 2010. link.
  REPRINT: The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction, 2005-2010. UP Press, February 28, 2013.
• Night Out, Expanded Horizons. May 31, 2009.
• Earthset, Philippines Graphic. June 15, 2009. (link)
• Hotel, Philippines Graphic. August 24, 2009.
• Reunion, Philippines Free Press. September 12, 2009.
  AWARD: First Prize for Fiction, Philippines Free Press Literary Awards
• The Just World of Helena Jimenez, The Farthest Shore: Fantasy from the Philippines. October 2, 2009.
• I Am the City, Expanded Horizons. November 3, 2009.

2010

• Sand, Crushed Shells, Chicken Feathers, Philippines Free Press. March 22, 2010.
  REPRINT: The World SF Blog, February 8, 2011. link.
• Salot, Demons of the New Year. March 24, 2010.
• Once They Were Gods, Expanded Horizons. April 1, 2010.
• Monsters, Philippine Speculative Fiction V. April 24, 2010.
• Elsewhere, Usok #2. November 3, 2010.

2011

• Children, Philippines Graphic. Jan. 9, 2011.
• Intersections, Expanded Horizons. Feb. 2, 2011.
• Summer Evening, Vanilla Literary & Art Journal. Feb. 22, 2011.
• December, Story Quarterly. March 2011.
• Voyage to Bathala, Philippines Free Press. March 19, 2011.
• The Storyteller’s Curse, Philippine Speculative Fiction VI. May 28, 2011.
• Departures, Philippines Free Press. Oct. 29, 2011.
• Ana’s Little Pawnshop on Makiling St., Alternative Alamat. December 14, 2011.

2012

• Rizal, Diaspora Ad Astra: Science Fiction from the Philippines. January 3, 2012.
• Needle Rain, Philippine Genre Stories, part 1 March 16, 2012 part 2 March 24, 2012.
• Fairy Tales, Daily Science Fiction. June 8, 2012 (exclusive email distribution).
  REPRINT: Chasing Tales: Vol 1, Fantasy Night by MoarBooks.
• The Mechanic, Kaleidotrope. July 2012.
• username: tanglaw, Philippine Speculative Fiction VII. July 23, 2012.
• Maybe Another Song at Dusk, Philippines Graphic. October 23, 2012.

2013

• A Fire That Cannot Be Touched, Philippine Speculative Fiction VIII. July 17, 2013.
• Dan’s Dreams, Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults. November 2013.
  REPRINT: The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013, Twelfth Planet Press, 2015.

2014

• The Missing, Maximum Volume: Best New Filipino Fiction 2014. Feb. 28, 2014.
• Glass Jar, Interactive story hosted on Philome.la. July 10, 2014.
• Remembrance, Alternative Alamat (Print Edition). July 25, 2014.
• When I die, I want you to have all of my stuff, Interactive story hosted on Philome.la. July 29, 2014.
• 1:40 AM, Daily Science Fiction. Aug. 8, 2014.
• Deliver Us, Philippine Speculative Fiction 9. October 9, 2014.

2015

• Fade, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. June 2015.
• The Handmade House, Voyage to Bathala and Other Stories. July 2015.
• At the Diazes’, LEAP+. October 2015.
• The Seventh, Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature. November 2015.  REPRINT: Apex Book of World SF Volume 5, 2019.

2016

• Fortitude, Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults. May 2016. REPRINT: POC Takes Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, 2017.
• The Target, Philippine Speculative Fiction X. May 2016.
• Premium, Let’s Eat (Special Fiction issue): Philippine Star. June 26, 2016.
• Blessed Are Those Who Suffer, 8List.ph. October 21, 2016. REPRINT: Lapat anthology, 2021 (edited by Luna Sicat-Cleto, Francis Quina, and Romulo Baquiran).
• Analemma, All That Darkness Allows: 13 Tales of Horror and Dread. Summit Books. October 2016. Excerpt.

2017

• Queen Midnight, The Dark. May 1, 2017.
• Sanctuary, Rogue Magazine. October 2017.
• Bisita (“Visitor”), Sapantaha: Kalipunan ng mga Maikling Kuwentong Spekulatibo at Imahinatibo. December 2017.
  AUDIO ADAPTATION: Bisita, Audio drama adaptation by Elyss Punsalan for Pakinggan Pilipinas. June 12, 2019. Listen on Spotify.

2018

• Carpe Noctem, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. May 2018.
• After the Crash,  Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 11. July 11, 2018.
• A Prayer to the Many-Eyed Mother, The Dark. September 2018.
  AUDIO PODCAST link: A Prayer to the Many-Eyed Mother.
• Web, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction. November 9, 2018.

2019

• Where you are now is better than where you were before, Edited by Julia Rios. Fireside Fiction, October 2019. (Subscription link to Fireside Quarterly.) (Online link, December 2019.)

2020

• Panoptes, Future SF, September 16, 2020.

2021

• Down the River, Multispecies Cities, April 2021.

2022

• Nicola, Rosie, Michael & Simon, Asian Literature Project “YOMU”, The Japan Foundation, 2022.
• Let me hold your hand, Daata, March 2022. Also part of the Art Fair Philippines exhibition Aparisyon with Leeroy New. 

Flash Fiction

• Once, in a small town, Very Short Stories for Harried Readers, Milflores, 2007. REPRINT: Fantastic Stories of the Imagination: People of Color Flash Anthology, 2017. REPRINT (Spanish Translation: “Érase una vez un pueblo…”): Cuentos Para Algernon, 2018.
• Stories from the City, Fast Food Fiction Delivery, Anvil, January 31, 2015.
• The Impossible Place, Theme of Absence, April 13, 2018.
• Ayani, Stranded: Lone Survivor Deserted Island Horror Stories, Dark Regions Press, October 2018.
• Friends on Facebook, 2018 The University of Sydney Student Anthology. March 8, 2019.

Essays

• (Re)Gaming Life, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, May 5, 2010.
• Online Publications: Who Benefits? , Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, May 12, 2010.
• Genre Lures: Tell-Tale Heart, Monkey’s Paw, The Lottery, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, June 1, 2010.
• Genre Lures: Horror as a Launch Pad, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, June 1, 2010.
• Why We Read Horror, Rocket Kapre, June 18, 2013.
• Robots and Humanity, Speed Magazine, January 2014.
• Five tips on how to get ideas for short stories, Junior Inquirer: Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 2014.
• Reading the Universe, Esquire Philippines, September 2014.
• Chills and Thrills, Katha Magazine, October 2014.
• 5 Filipina writers on Filipina writers they love, CNN Philippines. March 27, 2017.
• The best Filipino books of 2017, CNN Philippines. January 4, 2018.
• The City’s Bad Enough As It Is: What I Write, How and Why, Here and Now: Selected Poetics from the UP National Writers Workshop (Francis Paolo Quina, ed.). 2019.
• Meaning-making in the age of collapse, Honi Soit. August 19, 2020. AWARD: Honi Soit Writing Competition 2020, non-fiction category.
• Entrapment and Estrangement in Shirley Jackson’s Gothic Fiction, Philament Volume 26. November 2020.

Reviews

• Expanded Horizons Issue 18: Review, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, May 17, 2010.
• Crossed Genres Issue #18 (Eastern Issue) – Review, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, May 24, 2010.
• Strange Horizons (May Fiction) Review, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, June 8, 2010.
• Multiethnic Lovecraft: Innsmouth Free Press #4 Review, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, June 22, 2010. (Part 2 here.)
• Lightspeed Magazine #1 Review (June Issue), Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, July 6, 2010.
• Poses and Prostitutes: Beneath Ceaseless Skies 46 Review, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, July 22, 2010.
• SF with Heart: Apex Magazine #14 Review, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, August 2, 2010.
• Clarkesworld Issue # 46, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, August13, 2010.
• Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Issue # 5, Philippine Online Chronicles: Pinoy Pop, August 13, 2010.

One-Act Plays

• Marte (Mars), Main Line-Up Performance, Virgin LabFest XII. Cultural Center of the Philippines – Tanghalang Huseng Batute. July 2, 2016 (Saturday), 3 pm and 8 pm; July 8 and 13, 2016 (Friday and Wednesday), 3 pm; July 7 and 17, 2016 (Thursday and Sunday), 8 pm. (Full list of performances.)
• Ang Bahay sa Gitna ng Kawalan (The House in the Middle of Nowhere), Main Line-Up Performance, Virgin LabFest XIII. Cultural Center of the Philippines – Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater). July 1, 2017 (Saturday), 3 pm and 8 pm; July 6, 11, and 15, 2017, 3 pm; July 5, 9, and 14, 2017, 8 pm. (Full list of performances.) VIRTUAL RESTAGING: Ang Bahay sa Gitna ng Kawalan by Teka Lang Wait! 2021

Other Media

• Reunion, Read by Solo Lirios Galura, Pakinggan Pilipinas, May 1, 2011.
• The Making of A Bottle of Storm Clouds, or where you can send your stories, Talk given by Eliza Victoria at Visprint’s Writers in Talks (WIT) 2 event, Sept. 8, 2012. Recording by Charles Tan of Flipside Publishing.
• Writers as Readers, Panel discussion by Eliza Victoria and Gerry Alanguilan at the Filipino Reader Conference, Dec. 7, 2013. Recording by Carljoe Javier for Lumpen Culturati.
• A Prayer to the Many-Eyed Mother, The Dark. September 2018.
• Bisita, Audio drama adaptation by Elyss Punsalan for Pakinggan Pilipinas. June 12, 2019. Listen on Spotify.
• Where you are now is better than where you were before, Narrated by C.S.E. Cooney. Fireside Fiction, December 2019.
• Future Currents: Philippines and Singapore, FutureTalks. November 29, 2020. With Isabel Yap, Vida Cruz, and Victor Ocampo.
• Science Fiction and Fantasy in Today’s Dystopia, Pandemic Playbook: BDAP Literary Festival. November 29, 2020. With John Jack Wigley (moderator) and Dean Alfar.