2011 PBBY Salanga Prize

Call for Entries

The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting entries
for the 2011 PBBY-Salanga Prize. The contest is co-sponsored by the Cultural
Center of the Philippines (CCP) and The National Library.

2011 marks the 150th birth anniversary of Jose Rizal. To commemorate this event,
all 2011 PBBY-Salanga entries should be inspired in part or in whole by the life or
works of Jose Rizal. Prizes will be awarded in an appropriate ceremony to be held
during the celebration of National Children’s Book Day in July 2011.

CONTEST RULES
The contest is open to all Filipino citizens except those who are related to any
PBBY member up to the third degree of consanguinity.

Stories should be intended for children aged 6 to 12 years old. The plot and the
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 hard copy, double-spaced, on short bond paper. Maximum

length is five (5) pages.

Each entry should be accompanied by a brief note explaining how the story was
inspired by Rizal, as well as the source of the said information (i.e. title of
book/article on Jose Rizal).

A contestant may send in more than one (1) entry.

Each entry must be signed by a pen name only. Five (5) copies of each entry
should be placed in an envelope, on the face of which only the pen name of
the contestant should appear.

Together with each entry, contestants must submit a second envelope, on the
face of which the pen name shall appear. This must contain the contestant’s
full name, address, contact numbers, a short literary background, and a
notarized certification 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 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.

All entries must be sent through snail mail to the PBBY Secretariat, c/o Adarna
House, Inc., Scout Torillo cor. Scout Fernandez Sts., Barangay Sacred
Heart, Quezon City.

All entries must be received by the PBBY Secretariat no later than 5:00 p.m.,
November 15, 2010.

Winners will be announced no later than December 17, 2010. Non-winning

entries may be claimed at the PBBY Secretariat until January 10, 2011.

The winning story will be the basis for the 2011 PBBY-Alcala Prize. For more
details, interested parties may contact the Philippine Board on Books for Young
People, at Telefax 372-3548 or email pbby[at]adarna.com.ph.