I, too, would like to see Palanca and other literary contests here in the Philippines adopt similar statements.
The Associated Writing Programs book contests include the following in their guidelines:
To avoid conflict of interest and to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, former students of a judge (former students who studied with a judge in an academic degree-conferring program or its equivalent) are ineligible to enter the competition in the genre for which their former teacher is serving as judge.
The Walt Whitman Award guidelines are similar: "Applicants for the award will not be considered eligible if they have been students of the judge or are close friends."
Fair guidelines, isn't it?
You might want to check Foetry, a muckraking website that aims to blow the lid off the cozy practices of contemporary poetry.
The Associated Writing Programs book contests include the following in their guidelines:
To avoid conflict of interest and to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, former students of a judge (former students who studied with a judge in an academic degree-conferring program or its equivalent) are ineligible to enter the competition in the genre for which their former teacher is serving as judge.
The Walt Whitman Award guidelines are similar: "Applicants for the award will not be considered eligible if they have been students of the judge or are close friends."
Fair guidelines, isn't it?
You might want to check Foetry, a muckraking website that aims to blow the lid off the cozy practices of contemporary poetry.
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