[citation needed] Anvil is an eleven-time Publisher of the Year awardee of the National Book Awards, as cited by the Manila Critics Circle.

[5] In 2018, Anvil Publishing, under the imprint Anvil Audio,[6] published its first audiobook titled Dear Universe: Poems on Love, Longing, and Finding Your Place in the Cosmos[7] by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador and narrated by actress Joyce Pring.

A public historian whose research covers the late nineteenth-century Philippines: its art, culture, and the heroes who figure in the birth of the nation.

He writes a widely read editorial page column named "Looking Back" for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and moderates a growing Facebook fan page.

Collections of his newspaper columns are anthologized on the Looking Back series of books.