19/10/2026
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ | ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ข๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ป๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ฝ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ป ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ด๐ฎ ๐๐ธ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ป๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ถ๐ฝ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ป
According to KWF Dictionary, ๐จ๐๐รก๐ฃ๐ โtumutukoy sa salikop o hugpungan ng dalawa o higit pang lansangan, ilog, at iba pa, isang tagpuan kung saan nagsasalubong ang magkakaibang daloyโ. In another way, sabรกng refers to the mouth of a river, the place where fresh and salt waters meet.
It is at this meeting point that sabรกng finds its meaning.
This semesterโs Literary Folio explores the space between tradition and modernity, between what has been inherited and what is continually being transformed. Like the mouth of a river where fresh and salt waters converge, sabรกng is a space of encounter where old practices meet new technologies, where ancestral forms converse with contemporary expressions, and where the past does not simply disappear but finds new ways to flow.
Yet every encounter carries the possibility of loss. As technology, globalization, and changing ways of life reshape how we create, remember, and communicate, many traditional art forms and literary practices are gradually fading. Oral traditions become less frequently spoken. Indigenous and regional forms of expression risk being forgotten. Handcrafted practices give way to digital production. Forms that once traveled through voices, paper, bodies, and communities now find themselves competing withโor being transformed byโthe speed and reach of the digital world.
But sabรกng does not regard tradition and technology as opposites. Instead, it asks what happens when technology becomes the bridge between them.
How can digital spaces preserve art forms that are disappearing? How can old literary traditions be reimagined through contemporary media? What happens when a traditional poetic form enters the digital page, when an oral story becomes an audiovisual archive, or when inherited language finds new life through experimental and electronic poetry?
Through this folio, we invite writers and artists to explore the meeting, tension, disappearance, preservation, and transformation of tradition in the modern world. We seek works that examine and reexamine what can be carried forward, reinvented, and remembered.
For this issue, we welcome ๐๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ก ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐-๐ฅ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐ง๐ฎ, ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ก ๐ฅ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ข๐จ, ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐ข๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐๐ก๐จ ๐ค๐ง ๐๐ง๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ข๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ค๐ ๐จ๐๐รก๐ฃ๐.
Submissions may explore the
intersections of heritage and technology, memory and innovation, preservation and change, the
analog and the digital, the local and the global.
Submissions are open from October 2026 until November 2026.
โข Send your works to [email protected] with the subject line:
Sabรกng_Genre_Language_Title (e. g., Sabรกng_Tula_Filipino_Ulan).
โข Each contributor may submit up to one literary work and art form.
โข All entries must be original and unpublished.
