Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South is a peer-reviewed, open-access literary journal that cultivates a discursive space for writers, scholars, and artists to engage with the Philippines as a Southern discourse and the Southern Philippines as both a cultural construct and lived reality.
It seeks to interrogate and reimagine literary productions from the margins, foregrounding the South as a critical site of intellectual and artistic inquiry.
Rooted in creative innovation and academic rigor, Katitikan (which translates to literature in Cebuano) adheres to a peer-review process, ensuring that its published works reflect scholarly and/or literary merit. By providing an accessible yet critically engaged platform, the journal upholds decolonial perspectives, regional literary interventions, and interdisciplinary dialogues, amplifying narratives that resist hegemonic paradigms and reframe the peripheries as dynamic centers of thought and imagination.
Journal Issues
Since 2019, Katitikan has published seven themed issues. Browse all journal issues or start with one below.
- Issue 7: Paghandom ug Paglimot (July 2025), a Binisaya special edition
- Issue 6: Lives of an Anxious Milieu (July 2024)
- Issue 5: Writes and Rights (October 2023)
- Issue 4: Queer Writing (June 2021)
- Issue 3: (Re) Imaginations (February 2021)
- Issue 2: Places and Spaces (February 2020)
- Issue 1: Maiden Issue (June 2019)
Now open: Issue 8, “Becoming.” Deadline: 30 November 2026. Read the call for submissions →
What We Publish
Each issue gathers poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essays, plays and interviews by contemporary Filipino writers, in Binisaya, Filipino and English, as well as other Philippine languages in translation.
Read by Language
- Philippine literature in English, Filipino and Binisaya
- Poetry in English, Filipino (tula) and Binisaya (balak)
- Fiction in English, Filipino (maikling kuwento) and Binisaya (sugilanon)
The People Behind Katitikan
Katitikan is run by an editorial board of writers and scholars from across the Philippine South, and is shaped by the contemporary Filipino writers who contribute to each issue. Interested in joining them? Read our submission guidelines.
Bisaya Digital proudly supports Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South in preserving Philippine literature and making it accessible to young Filipinos and the world.
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