The 62nd Palanca Awards now accepting entries

Reposting from Panitikan:
Now on its 62^nd year of encouraging excellence in literary writing, the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Palanca Awards) is currently accepting entries for this year’s contest. Deadline for submission is at 12:00 m.n. of 30 April 2012.

The Palanca Awards, the country’s most prestigious and longest-running literary competition, welcomes submissions under the following regular categories:
English Division – Short Story, Short Story for Children, Essay, Poetry, Poetry for Children, One-act Play, and Full-length Play; Filipino Division – Maikling Kuwento, Maikling Kuwentong Pambata, Sanaysay, Tula, Tulang Pambata, Dulang May Isang Yugto, Dulang Ganap ang Haba, and Dulang Pampelikula; Regional Languages Division – Short Story-Cebuano, Short Story-Hiligaynon and Short Story-Iluko.

Each contestant may submit only one entry per category.

The Palanca Awards saw a significant boost in the participation of young writers over the years. To further encourage the youth to hone their literary talents, writers below 18 years old may submit essays under the Kabataan Division. This year's theme for the Kabataan Essay is “In the advent of e-books, do I still consider printed books to be an important part of education?” The theme for the Kabataan Sanaysay is “Sa paglaganap ng e-books, maituturing ko pa bang mahalagang bahagi ng edukasyon ang mga nakalimbag na aklat?”

The literary contest is open to all Filipino (or former Filipino) citizens, except current officers and employees of its organizing body, the Carlos Palanca Foundation, Inc.  Contest rules and official entry forms are available at the Foundation's office at 6^th Floor, One World Square Building, No.10 Upper McKinley Road, McKinley Town Center, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City and at the Palanca Awards official website, www.palancaawards.com.ph.

Entries with complete requirements may be submitted at the Foundation’s office or through the official website.
Winners will be announced on 1 September 2012.

Established in 1950 in honor of Don Carlos Palanca Sr., the Palanca Awards aims to help develop Philippine literature by providing incentives for writers to craft their most outstanding literary works, to serve as a treasury of Philippine literary gems and assist in its dissemination to the public, particularly the students.

To date, the Palanca Awards has a collection of 2,052 winning works. Of these, 898 are in English, 1,020 in Filipino and 134 in Regional Languages. The collection includes 527 short stories, 366 collections of poetry, 208 essays, 344 one-act plays, 182 full-length plays, 60 teleplays, 54 screenplays, 148 stories for children, 34 futuristic fiction stories, 77 Kabataan essays, 36 novels, and 16 collections of poetry for children.

For further information, please email the administrator at cpawards@palancaawards.com.ph or call telephone number 856-0808 loc. 33.

Declaimers for Printemps de Poetes 2012

Got the list of readers for this coming Printemps de Poetes on March 15, 2012.:)

Gemino Abad	Toys
Anne Abad	The Wake
Virgilio Almario	Unang Taon
Alma Anonas Carpio	Storm Child
Shin Castillo	Innocence
Noël Del Prado	Childhood Games
Anna Gamboa	The Jigsaw Pieces
Marne Kilates	Ghazal of the Meliguas
Pete Lacaba	The Names of Spiders
Marra Lanot	Laro
Asha Macam	The Coloring Book
Rosa Magno	The Stone-Stairs Which Led Nowhere:
Paolo Manalo	Inside Out
Vim Nadera	Legend
Victor Penaranda	Bus Window
André Rioult	Eloges
Markus Rucksthul	Les Larmes de Ma Mere
Marivic Rufino	cf Rio Alma
Joel Salud A WALK ALONG THE TERRACE WITH A CHILD	A Walk Along the Terrace with a Child
Ritchen Sarigumba	My Sleeping Grandmother
Cherilyn Sarigumba	When it Rains
Ramon Sunico	Juani's Toys #1: Ball
Cesare Syjuco	The Table of Zero
Maxine SYJUCO	Premonition
Yanna Verbo Acosta	Moonrise
Jaime Yambao	A Church in my Childhood
Krip Yuson	Rainbow Song
Apolinario Macalintal	Voice of a Child

Grasslimb Volume 10 #1

Yey! I got my contributor's copies of Grasslimb today! I immediately took photos of course, so I can plug myself shamelessly in my shamelessly about me blog hahaha

Call for Submissions for the 11th Ateneo National Writers Workshop

*WOW it's the 11th Ateneo workshop already! It's been 2 years since I attended this, back then they had only 8 slots, now they have 12, which is really great news.

Posting call for subs below, which I got from Panitikan:

The Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP), with the support from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and in cooperation with Humanities Division of Ateneo de Davao University and Heights: The Official Literary and Artistic Publication and Organization of the Ateneo de Manila University, is now accepting applicants for the 11th Ateneo National Writers Workshop (ANWW) to be held from May 21 to 25, 2012 in Davao City.
Each applicant must submit a portfolio in triplicate (3 copies) of any of the following: a suite of five (5) poems OR a collection of three (3) short stories written in Filipino or English with a title page bearing the author's pseudonym and a table of contents. Entries must be addressed and submitted to the Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP) c/o Department of Filipino, School of Humanities, 3rd Flr. Dela Costa Bldg., Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108.

The portfolio must be in Garamond, font size 12, with one (1") inch margins on all sides. The portfolio must also be accompanied by a CD containing a file of the portfolio saved in MSWord (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text format (.rtf). All submissions must include a sealed envelope containing the author's name, address, contact number, e-mail address and a one-page resume including a literary CV with a 1X1 ID picture. The resume must mention the applicant’s province of origin.

Twelve slots are open to beginning writers, from which a few slots will be allocated exclusively to writers from Mindanao and to Heights members. Food and accommodations will be provided for all accepted applicants. Deadline of submission will be on March 31, 2012. For more information, e-mail AILAP Director Dr. Edgar C. Samar at esamar@ateneo.edu; or this year’s workshop director, Mr. Allan Derain, at allanderain2003@yahoo.com.