Happy National Literature Month! This episode is Part 1 of the webinar organized by the class of MMS 198 Special Topics (Introduction to Publishing) of the BA Multimedia Studies Program under the Faculty of Information and Communication Studies of the University of the Philippines Open University. Women writers and small press publishers Rowena Festin (Aklat Mirasol), Mina Esguerra (#RomanceClass), and Faye Cura (Gantala Press) discuss the challenges in writing and publishing as, for, and by women, working with mainstream publishing, and building a community of readers and writers. Facilitated by Roda Tajon, the webinar was held on Zoom on March 29, 2023. Part 2 will include the open forum.