CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2016

LITERARY APPRENTINCE JUNE 30, 2016

The UP Writers Club is the University of the Philippines finest literary organization
since its inception in 1927. The organization pushes for innovation and
transformation, while continuing to recognize and uphold its traditions. In line with
its 90th anniversary, the UP Writers Club will be publishing the 2017 Literary
Apprentice with the theme of Resistance. Works with radical content or with
concepts that are currently deemed too unusual or experimental by mainstream
publishers are encouraged. Submission is open to works of poetry, prose, essay, and
hybrid genres. Only works in Filipino or English will be considered as we do not have
the resources to edit pieces in other languages. Submissions are open to UP
Writers Club alumni and members. Below are the specific guidelines for each
genre.
1.
Prose

Maximum of 10 000 words or 15 pages per entry. Works that exceed the

maximum word or page count will not be considered.

Format: Garamond, size 12, single spaced, justified

2. Poetry
1 2 poems not longer than 30 lines each or 1 long poem, for a maximum of

60 lines per submission. Maximum page count is 5 pages. Works that exceed the line
or page count will not be considered.
We accept Prose-Poetry, maximum of 5 000 words or 6 pages per entry.
Format: Garamond, size 12, single spaced

1.

Essay
Various essay forms are welcomed: academic papers, creative non-fiction,

literary or art criticism, film reviews, interdisciplinary critical papers, et cetera,

exploring Southeast Asian Literature or Art and its connections or intersections
with Philippine Literature or Art.
Maximum of 10 000 words or 15 pages per entry. Works that exceed the

maximum word or page count will not be considered.

Format similar to prose
Citation style: Chicago (for artwork images in Art Criticism, Turabian citation

style must be used)

3. Hybrid Works
Authors must indicate in which genre they want their works to be placed. In
the event that their works are accepted, the editors will work closely with the author
on options on how to present their work.
Submissions must come in both .pdf and .doc or .rtf format. Indicate the title of
the piece in the file name, and genre in the e-mail subject line. The body of the email must contain the authors full name, contact details, and title of work. If the
author wishes to include images in their work, these must be 300 dpi and in black
and white, .jpg or .png format and attached as file in the e-mail submission.
You may send your inquiries and submissions to litapp90th@gmail.com.

Deadline for submission is on 30 June 2016. Authors will be notified of their

submission status within three months of the deadline.
The Literary Apprentice 2017 will be published by Balangiga Press, an independent
publishing house in Manila, Philippines, founded in March 2016, that aims to promote
appreciation of resistance writing, liberating reading, and engaging literature. For
orders and other inquiries, please visit Balangiga Press.
BUKAMBIBIG JUNE 30, 2016

'Bukambibig' is the official poetry folio of Spoken Word Philippines, a

community of Filipino spoken word artists across geographic and
aesthetic boundaries. The folio is aimed to providing a venue for
spoken word artists to showcase their poems meant for performance. It
welcomes poems in English and/or Filipino as contributions that
questions and traverses poetic boundaries. It is open to all Filipino
spoken word artists who reside in the Philippines or abroad.
'Bukambibig' is published quarterly, in February, May, August, and
November. Submissions are assumed to be original, unpublished, and
written for performance. The theme for the first issue to be published
on August is 'crowd' (i.e. identity, belongingness, anonymity, and
behavior in/of crowds). Entries may be composed of three to four
poems (no longer than 80 lines) in PDF format. Poems should be
written as one document, single-spaced in Garamond font 12. The
name of the author shall not appear on any of the pages. On the
emails body, write the authors name, mobile number, email address,
and a short bionote (in the third person). The bionote (100-300 words)
may include the authors location in the Philippines or anywhere in the
world, college course, school, and if applicable, current professional
work, writers group affiliations, works published, and writers workshops
attended. All contributions must be submitted before 11:59 PM on 30
June 2016 to spokenwordph.poetryfolio@gmail.com with the email
subject: Submissions: Last Name_First Name_Middle Initial (example:
Submissions: Dela Cruz_Juan Carlos_P). Poems submitted will
undergo a blind review by a pool of reviewers supervised by the folio
editor. Queer poet-memoirist Alton Melvar Dapanas will be the editor of
the poetry folio, with Mark S Angeles, writer-in-residence of the 2013
International Writing Program in the United States and Komisyon ng
Wikang Filipinos 2016 Makata ng Taon, as consultant. Award-winning
poet, fictionist, essayist, and playwright Vim D Nadera of UP Likhaan
Institute of Creative Writing, considered as the father of Philippine
performance poetry, will write the folios foreword. (Note: The
copyright of the works published in the folio remains with the authors.
Currently, we are unable to give honorarium to the authors.)