2024 PBBY-Alcala Prize: Call for Entries
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting digital entries for the 2024 PBBY-Alcala Prize. The winner shall be given a cash prize of PHP25,000.00, a medal, and an opportunity to be published. Prizes will be awarded at 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 ALCALA2024, by May 6, 2024.
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.
Entries must be based on the 2024 PBBY-Salanga Grand Prize winner, Monina’s Many Moles by Eric R. Roxas.
A copy of the story may be downloaded here.
All entries must be original, unpublished illustrations that have not won in any previous contest and must be sole property of the entrant.
All entries must consist of three (3) illustrations that are of the same size, two of which are colored and in sequence. The third spread should be a rough sketch of any other spread. The artworks should be in 72 dpi.
Contestants are free to determine how to distribute the text for their spreads, bearing in mind that the interaction of art and text is an important criterion of the contest.
All three artworks should be compiled in one PDF. The total size of the PDF should not exceed 5 MB. The PDF file name should follow the format: 2024ALCALA_PenName.
The artist’s name, pen name, or signature should not appear on any of the illustrations.
A contestant may send in more than one (1) entry.
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. The file name should follow the format: YourName_Bio and YourName_StatementOfOriginality.
All entries must be sent to secretariat@pbby.org.ph by May 6, 2024.
Winners will be announced no later than June 7, 2024.
For more details, interested parties may contact PBBY at secretariat@pbby.org.ph.
