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NBDB Book Club and Asia Pacific College students read Dean Francis Alfar's Salamanca

 

 

The NBDB Book Club will be joining World Literature students of Asia Pacific College as they discuss Dean Francis Alfar's fantasy novel Salamanca, Grand Prize winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. 

 

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Deadline for Tulaan sa Tren Poetry Writing Contest extended to July 30!

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The National Book Development Board (NBDB), Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), Vibal Foundation, and the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP) are giving aspiring poets a chance to have their poems posted in LRT trains as part of the Tulaan sa Tren readership promotion campaign:


 

 

 

1)     The contest is open from 22 June 2009 until 30 July 2009 to all Filipino citizens of all ages.

2)     The NBDB will accept original, unpublished poems with the theme Journeys/Paglalakbay. Entries may be in English, Filipino, or any of the regional languages (with English or Tagalog translation if written in a regional language) and should be up to 200 words long. Only one (1) poem per author will be accepted.

3)     The Board of Judges will select three (3) winners each for the English and Filipino categories. For each category, the Grand Prize winner will receive P5,000.00, second prize winner will receive P3,000.00, and third prize winner will receive P2,000.00. Winning entries will be posted in LRT trains alongside the works of established Filipino poets and will be published in a compilation of Tulaan sa Tren 2 poems. The NBDB shall share copyright with the authors for their winning poems for purposes of broadcast and/or publication in the NBDB’s readership campaigns.

4)     Entries must be submitted along with the Official Entry Form. The author’s name and address must only appear in the Official Entry Form and must not appear on the entry. Entries may be e-mailed to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or sent postmarked no later than July 30, 2009 to:

 

Office of the Executive Director

National Book Development Board

2/F NPO Bldg.

EDSA cor. NIA Northside Road

Diliman, Quezon City

 

5)     The winners will be contacted by the NBDB prior to the launch of Tulaan sa Tren 2 and will be awarded during the project launch tentatively set in August.

 

Click here for the Official Entry Form.



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