Reading Period Has Started!

Thank you to all those who have responded to the unsolicited call for submission. We are currently reading the submissions and will respond to the emails by February 15, 2015 - after the selection process.

Happy Holidays!

Submissions Have Started Coming In!

To those who have already submitted, thank you friends for sending over your contributions early :-)

A couple of weeks back, we joined the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in Singapore (UPAAS) during the annual Barrio Fiesta (one of the photo grabs below); some members are keen to send over their contributions as well, and we are looking forward to them.

For those who are interested, there is still time to write and send over your poetry/essay/short fiction before the Oct 31, 2014 deadline. 

We are excited to start our reading period!

More Confirmed Contributors: Prof. Robin Hemley, Timothy Goh, Neal Imperial, Noel Perdigon

Thank you in advance to the great folks who have committed to contribute to this exciting anthology. We are very honoured to have these additions:

Prof. Robin Hemley, Writer in Residence, Yale-NUS

Timothy Goh, TV Newscaster

Neal Imperial, Poet and Diplomat

Noel Perdigon, Entrepreneur and former owner of 7,107 Island restaurant in Singapore

Confirmed Contributions from Literary Greats and Artists

Professor Edwin Thumboo, Poets/Authors Felix Cheong and Eric Valles, and Celebrity Showhost/ Recording Artiste Pamela Wildheart - What do they have in common?

All are confirmed contributors of Get Lucky: An Anthology. 

Watch this space for more star contributors...

If you'd like to contribute to this upcoming anthology, please see submission guidelines in previous post.

Call For Submissions - Get Lucky: An Anthology

Call for Submissions – Get Lucky: An Anthology

Get Lucky is an anthology of everything Filipino in Singapore, exploring and celebrating the themes of family, faith, friendship, love, and of course, the place that cuts across the lives of Filipinos in Singapore: Lucky Plaza. It seeks to provide a glimpse of the Filipino’s life in Singapore, using the 24-hour slice-of-life approach, intersecting with Filipinos’ frequently visited places as signposted by major MRT stops.

We are looking for original poetry, short fiction, and personal narratives that tackle these themes, preferably set against an MRT station as a backdrop, from Filipinos based, or previously based, in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines:

1.    Contributions must be in English and must not have been published elsewhere, in print or online.

2.     Short fiction must be between 1500 and 2500 words; personal narratives must not exceed 1500 words; and poetry contributions must be a maximum of 40 lines.

3.     Poetry submission is limited to three poems per contributor.

4.     Submissions must be in MS Word format—Times New Roman font size 12

5.   Submissions must come with a cover note that includes the contributor’s full name, contact information, and 50-word bio.

Send your submissions to getlucky.anthology@gmail.com with the subject line “Get Lucky submission”. Deadline for submission is October 31, 2014. Contributors will get a free copy of the book.

Editors: Migs Bravo-Dutt and M Contreras-Cabrera

Adviser: Eric Valles

• Manuelita Contreras-Cabrera

Manuelita is a journalist/editor and until recently was the deputy editor of a financial magazine based in Singapore, where she now works full time as a senior analyst. While the bulk of her writing portfolio is in business, finance, and features, she dabbles in fiction writing and has published short stories in the Philippines.

• Migs Bravo Dutt

Migs is a writer based in Singapore, and has contributed to several Singapore publications including SingPoWriMo Book Anthology, Ceriph Literary Journal,  several issues of Expat Living Annual Travel Guides and Monthly Magazine, and Metta Charity Association newsletter. She is a member of British Council/Birkbeck College's Write Forward Class of 2011, and has attended the Iceland Writers Retreat 2014. Migs is formerly Regional Consumer Insights Director for a multinational corporation but has taken personal time off to focus on her writing.

• Eric Valles

Eric’s poetry has been featured in & Words, Reflecting on the Merlion, Ceriph, Southeast Asian Review of English, Routledge’s New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and other journals.  His critical essays have appeared in The Asiatic and Writing Diaspora. He has won a Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing prize for poems that will form the core of the soon-to-be-published After the Fall (dirges among ruins). He has a previous poetry collection, A World in Transit.

Core Group/Special Contributors:

• Ed Vinluan - President of UP AA, Singapore
• Cathy Candano - Published poet
• Catherine Torres - Award winning fiction writer; Diplomat
• Noelle Chua - Fiction author; Magazine editor