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Katrina Ramos Atienza’s Well Played, the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, and multiple calls for submissions in this week’s edition.

Vibal acquires Katrina Ramos Atienza’s Well Played

Vibal Publishing has acquired Katrina Ramos Atienza’s Well Played for print distribution in the Philippines. As described in the Romance Class, Well Played is a “modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, set at a mountain-adjacent university in Laguna.” Vibal will release it on June this year as part of its Vida New Adult imprint, of which Mina V. Esguerra is editor-at-large.

Well Played joins other Vibal acquisitions like Ghost of a Feeling, Blooming Love, and the Interim Goddess of Love trilogy.

Palanca Awards now accepting entries

Every person who’s part of the Philippine literati probably already knows this, but just in case you haven’t heard it yet, the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature is now accepting entries for the 2025 awards. The deadline for entries is on June 30, 2025. Check out more details on their website!

Zsazsa Zaturnnah animated adaptation invited to Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy

I’ll be the first to admit being out of the loop because I didn’t even know there was a Zsazsa Zaturnnah animated adaptation happening! But there is one, and it’s been invited to the Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy as part of the Works in Progress section.

Rocketsheep Studio, the one behind the animated adaptation, will be doing a one-hour presentation on June 10 at the Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy about the film’s creative aspects. Wish them luck!

Call for entries for the Cagayan Art and Creative Writing Awards

The Cagayan Art and Creative Writing Awards is reminding everyone that the deadline for submissions to its art competition and short story writing competition are on Friday, May 30. Check out the links above for the competition guidelines.

“STORIED LIVES: Portraits of Women in the ALiWW Collection” exhibit extension

If any of you are in the Ateneo de Manila University area this month, you might want to check out “STORIED LIVES: Portraits of Women in the ALiWW Collection” exhibit that is being hosted at the ALiWW Reading Room in the Rizal Library. They’ve extended it until May 31 so there’s more time for everyone to see the works of the members of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan.

The Center for the Art of Translation call for submissions

Are you a BIPOC, female, and/or a queer author or translator? The Center for the Art of Translation is looking for submissions for translations of literature from Asia and Oceania. They especially want less-represented languages! Check out the link in the Facebook post above for more details.