THE University of the Philippines Writers Club (UPWC) will be publishing the 2017 Literary Apprentice in line with its 90th anniversary in February of next year.
The UPWC calls on its past and current members to submit works in line with the theme “resistance” on or before June 30.
The Literary Apprentice is a folio published sporadically by the UPWC since its inception in 1927. The club hopes to receive entries with radical, unusual or experimental concepts deemed too unusual by mainstream publishers for their 90th anniversary issue.
The 2017 folio will be published by Balangiga Press; an independent publishing house that aims to promote appreciation of resistance writing, liberating reading and engaging literature, as stated on their web site.
It was founded in March and has also published Colon, which was written by UPWC member and playwright Rogelio Braga.
Each prose entry may contain a maximum of 10,000 words, or 15 pages, while each poetry entry may contain a maximum of 60 lines or two poems, not longer than 30 lines each. Prose-poetry entries may have a maximum of 5,000 words, or six pages each.
Authors may indicate which genre they prefer to be placed and the Literary Apprentice’s editors will coordinate with them once their submissions are accepted.
The complete guidelines, which contain the required font type and size for each genre, can be found on the folio’s website. UPWC alumni and current members must send their entries via electronic mail.