2025 PBBY-Alcala Prize: Call for Entries
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting entries for the 2025 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 15, 2025.
DEADLINE: April 30, 2025
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 2025 PBBY-Salanga Grand Prize winner, Three Thimbles by Patricia Marie Grace S. Gomez. 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All entries must be original, unpublished illustrations that have not won in any previous contest and must be sole property of the entrant.
Each entry should comprise the following:
Three (3) artworks rendered in the intended style and medium and are of the same size
One (1) cover art - colored
Two (2) chapter illustrations - 1 colored, 1 rough sketch
The artworks should be 150 dpi in the actual size format. These may be digitally rendered or traditionally done artwork that may or may not have been digitally enhanced. Any work created or modified by AI (artificial intelligence) will not be accepted.
All three artworks should be compiled in one PDF. The total size of the PDF should not exceed 10 MB. The PDF file name should follow the format: 2025ALCALA_PenName.
Entries should not contain any names, pen names, or signatures.
A contestant may send in more than one (1) entry.
Together with each entry, contestants must submit their full name, address, contact numbers, a short literary background, and a statement from the contestant, 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.
All entries must be submitted via the entry form by April 30, 2025.
Winners will be announced no later than June 13, 2025.
For more details, interested parties may contact PBBY at secretariat@pbby.org.ph.
