a magazine for
what's next, loud,
and local.
wikamag covers culture at street level — music, fashion, nightlife, city life — for those who grew up on feeds and still want something to hold. Independent. Reader-funded. Unrelenting about getting people's names right.
we are loud where it matters and quiet where it counts. we print the thing you already said but didn't post.
local first. always.
If we can walk to the story, we walk. If we can't, we get on a bus. The lat/long matters more than the byline.
write like you talk.
No copy-deck voice. No vibes. Real sentences from real mouths, lightly edited and proudly local.
print is not nostalgia.
It's slower than a feed and lasts longer than a tab. We print four times a year. We mean every page.
credit the kids.
Names, ages, neighbourhoods. We'd rather miss a deadline than misspell someone's surname.
a friend who knows the city.
- ✓Honest, specific, a little dry.
- ✓Short sentences. Proper names.
- ✓We call it what it is.
- ✓Curious, warm, never try-hard.
a brand voice deck.
- ✗"The culture" as a vibe, vaguely.
- ✗Gen-Z cosplay from a 35-year-old.
- ✗Anything written by a committee.
- ✗An algorithm with feelings.
who's on the spine.
Jeph Fernandez
Head of Product, entrepreneur, and lifelong tinkerer who has spent his career helping companies and startups build things people actually love using.
Donna Patricia Manio
A trusted, award-winning public relations professional and lifestyle journalist with fifteen years of international and local industry experience.
Rhadem Musawah
One of the leading Moro human rights advocates, social entrepreneur, and an internationally award-winning documentary filmmaker from the Philippines.
and everyone else.
say hello.
got a story we should be on?
Send a paragraph, not a deck. Local first. Be specific.
[email protected]we hire slowly, on purpose.
Open: photo intern (paid, 6 mo), copy editor (PT/ES), distro lead (LX).
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Bookshops, cafés, galleries — wholesale starts at 6 copies. Press kits on request.
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