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The Wire • 5th January 2023

Review of 'Amity' by Urmi Chanda

"Rayji de Guia’s painful poem War forces us to confront how women in war zones face even worse fates."
CNN Philippines • 27th December 2021

Review of 'Tingle’, ‘Wildfire’, and ‘Pics or It Didn’t Happen’ by Lakan Umali

"The collection opens with Rayji de Guia’s 'Here Come the Women,' a sly and subversive feminist retelling of Nick Joaquin’s 'The Summer Solstice.'"
UP Institute of Creative Writing • 10th December 2021

GlobalGRACE Teaching Philippine Queer Literature: Queerness and Mythology by Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz

"'Here Come the Women' not just re-visions the Tadtarin myth by using it in her story, [Rayji de Guia] also queers the narrative. So queering the narrative achieves the feminist project more successfully."
Cartellino • 17th September 2021

Review of 'What could have been water' by Carl Cervantes in Cartellino

"... de Guia’s zine awakens to a fine morning. Gossamer curtains and pastel skirts sway in the fragrant warm breeze as fingers touch."
Tingle: Anthology of Pinay Lesbian Writing • 21st July 2021

Let's Go, Lesbians!

A round table discussion and virtual book launch for Tingle: Anthology of Pinay Lesbian Writing
LGBTQ+ Writers PH • 10th April 2021

Teaching Philippine Queer Literature

A teaching module on Philippine queer literature which includes a reading on how to discuss "Here Come the Women".
Balangiga Press • 6th February 2021

BookTalk: Ang Lihim ng Nakasimangot na Maskara with Rogelio Braga and Rayji de Guia

Project GRACE-UP National LGBTQ+ Writers Workshop • 13th October 2020

Review of the short stories with GlobalGRACE-UP by Jaya Jacobo

"De Guia’s piece ... shows us the prosaic possibilities of depicting women according to the terms women have laid out for themselves to be seen seeing each other," writes Jaya Jacobo.
INQUIRER.net • 9th November 2019

"56 writers bag 2019 Palanca awards" in Philippine Inquirer

“Death for Serafina” wins second prize for the English short story.
Cavite Young Writers Association • 29th June 2019

Writing the Provincial

A fiction lecture delivered at the 2nd Cavite Young Writers Workshop.
OVPAA • 17th May 2019

2019 Gémino H Abad Awards

Winners and finalists read from their works at the awards ceremony of the 2019 Gémino H Abad Awards for Poetry and for Literary Criticism
OVPAA • 17th May 2019

"2019 Gémino H Abad Awards winners and finalists" in University of the Philippines OVPAA Website

'Neither nothing nor forgotten' wins grand prize for poetry.
28th March 2019

Review of "Spatial People" by H. Bentham

BURNING HOUSE PRESS • 28th December 2017

"Storytelling: Interview with Rayji de Guia" by Dhiyanah H

"I’m a natural gossip, and I put most of those in writing, if not shared with friends."
BusinessWorld • 13th October 2017

Review of "Ang Lihim ng Nakasimangot na Maskara" by Zeny May Recidoro in BusinessWorld

"Rayji de Guia’s monochromatic, high‑contrast illustrations captures the personalities of each character and place in the novel, complements the narrative and highlights important turns in the story."
The Time of Assassins Literary Guild • 31st October 2019

Review of 'What could have been water' by The Time of Assassins Literary Guild

"Please let it be water."
The New Indian Express • 26th November 2019

"Hooked on books" in The New Indian Express

"The international writers we have are Allison Amend and Prince Shakur from the US and Rayji de Guia from the Philippines. This year, Lekhana is also very intimate and will take place at the residency space The Jamun and Bangalore’s new bookstore, Champaca. It will be a small but vibrant weekend."
The Time of Assassins Literary Guild • 31st October 2019

Review of "The Manananggal of Mayabo" by The Time of Assassins Literary Guild

Ficticities • 5th September 2018

Review of "Death for Serafina" by John Doyle of Ficticities

"It’s the neat one who dies first, not the sloppy one."
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