2024 PBBY-Salanga Prize: Call for Entries
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting digital entries for the 2024 PBBY-Salanga Prize. The winner shall be given a cash prize of P25,000.00, a medal, and an opportunity to be published. Prizes will be awarded in a ceremony to be held during the celebration of National Children’s Book Day (NCBD) on July 16, 2024.
DEADLINE: Entries must be sent to secretariat@pbby.org.ph, with the subject SALANGA2024, by October 6, 2023.
The contest rules are as follows:
Open to all Filipino citizens of all ages except those who are related to any PBBY member up to the third degree of consanguinity.
Content should be original and intended for children aged 6–9 years old. Retellings will not be accepted as entries.
Each entry must be 2,000–5,000 words long. The content and sequence must be capable of sustaining an illustrated book of 28 to 32 pages.
Entries may be in Filipino or English.
Entries must be in PDF, double-spaced. The author’s name and/or pen name should not appear on all pages of the entry. The PDF file name should follow the format: 2024SALANGA_PenName.
Entries must include a one-page synopsis.
Contestants may submit only one (1) entry.
All submissions must be unpublished and must be sole property of the entrant.
Together with each entry, contestants must submit a separate document containing the contestant’s full name, address, contact numbers and a short literary background, as well as a statement from the author, vouching for the originality of the entry and for the freedom of the organizers from any liability arising from the infringement of copyright in case of publication, and affirming that the entry or any variant thereof has (a) never been published and is currently not for consideration in any publication nor (b) won any other contest i.e. that it has never won 1st, 2nd, 3rd, honorable mention in any other contest or otherwise been awarded a medal, a citation, or included in a publicized list of meritorious entries to a literary contest. The file name should follow the format: YourName_Bio and YourName_StatementOfOriginality.
All entries must be sent to secretariat@pbby.org.ph by October 6, 2023.
Winners will be announced no later than November 13, 2023.
Grand prize and honorable mention winners shall be subject to a bidding process to be facilitated by PBBY, to determine which publisher/s will publish their winning stories.
The winning story will be the basis for the 2024 PBBY-Alcala Prize.
For more details, interested parties may contact the Philippine Board on Books for Young People, at secretariat@pbby.org.ph.
