2025 PBBY-Salanga Chapter Book Prize: Call for Entries
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting entries for the 2025 PBBY-Salanga Chapter Book 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 on July 15, 2025.
DEADLINE: Entries must be sent to secretariat@pbby.org.ph, with the subject SALANGA2025 Chapter Book, by September 2, 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.
Stories should be original and intended for children aged 8–12 years old, with a word count of 15,000–30,000 words. The theme is historical fiction.
Entries may be in Filipino or English.
Entries must be in PDF, 1.5 line spacing, Times New Roman, font size 12 with 1-inch margins. 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: 2025SALANGA_PenName.
On a separate sheet, contestants must identify the target grade level, number of words, and the synopsis of the story. Contestants may also include suggestions to teachers for enrichment activities.
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All submissions must be unpublished and must be sole property of the entrant.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 September 2, 2024.
Winners will be announced no later than March 1, 2025.
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 2025 PBBY-Alcala Prize.
For more details, interested parties may contact the Philippine Board on Books for Young People at secretariat@pbby.org.ph.
