Illustration by Isabel Roxas
2023 PBBY Wordless Book Prize: Call for Entries
The winner shall receive a cash prize of PHP20,000, a medal, and an opportunity to be published. Prizes will be awarded at a ceremony to be held on National Children’s Book Day on July 18, 2023.
Entries must be sent to secretariat@pbby.org.ph, with the subject WORDLESS2023, by September 30, 2022.
As its name suggests, a wordless book relies solely on pictures to tell a story. They exercise a reader’s skills in observation and comprehension. And they can offer children greater freedom to use their imagination and build their own narratives.
Recognizing the dearth of local wordless children’s books, the PBBY established the first PBBY-Wordless Picture Book Prize in the Philippines in 2018.
Its awardees include Harry Monzon (Pagkatapos ng Unos, PBBY 2020), Christian Oliver Cruz (Pibò, Lampara 2021), Nina Martinez (Ang Mga Sikreto ng Langit at Dagat, unpublished), Angela Taguiang (Silong, unpublished), and Shekinah S. Angiwan-Gutierrez (Lola’s Pandesal, unpublished).
