We are a nonfiction publishing house dedicated to bringing stories from Southeast Asia to the world — in all their complexity, contradiction and richness. We publish long-form narrative nonfiction, memoirs and essays that illuminate the region and its diasporas. No one knows Southeast Asia better than Southeast Asians and those who have made it their home. These are the voices we seek out: ones that go deeper, challenge received wisdom and recover what has been overlooked.

We are also a home for books that are out of print but not out of mind.

Much of the work recovering forgotten Southeast Asian voices has focused on fiction. We want to do the same for nonfiction — historical texts that reward a 21st-century reading, and works by established writers that deserve to find new readers, at home and abroad. If you have a title in mind, write to us at hello@faction.press.