It made significant contribution to the field of literature when it introduced the popular masterpieces of great Filipino poets and writers like Jose Corazon de Jesus, Florentino Collanates, Julian Cruz Balmaceda, Cecilio Apostol Borromeo, Lope K. Santos, Inigo Ed Regalado, Romualdo Ramos, Francisco Lacsamana, Fausto Galauran and Pedrito Reyes, the son of Severino Reyes who later succeeded him as the editor of Liwayway.
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It also carried work in different categories like Short Story (Maikling Kuwento), Children's Story (Kuwentong Pambata), Horror Story (Kuwentong Kababalaghan), and Feature Stories (Lathalain).
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Liwayway A. Arceo (1920 - 1999) was a multi-awarded Tagalog fictionist, journalist, radio scriptwriter and editor from the Philippines.
Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang (The Stories of Grandmother Basyang) is a series of short stories written by "Lola Basyang," pen name of Severino Reyes, founder and editor of the Tagalog magazine, Liwayway.