English Division
Novel
- Grand Prize: “Great Philippine Jungle Energy Café” by Alfred A. Yuson
Short story
- First Prize: “The Flood in Tarlac” by Gregorio Brillantes
- Second Prize: “The Body” by Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.
- Third Prize: “Another Country” by Charlson Ong; and “The Bird Lover of City Hall” by Eli Ang Barroso
Poetry
- First Prize: “(Instead of a Will These) For All the Loved Ones” by Lina Sagaral Reyes; and “Peopleness” by Merlinda Bobis
- Second Prize: “Enemigo Mortal” by Constantino Tejero; and “Hinterland” by Edgardo B. Maranan
- Third Prize: “The Quality of Light (Home Colors, Foreign Hues)” by Ma. Fatima V. Lim; and “Word Without End” by Cesar Ruiz Aquino
Essay
- First Prize: “The Legacy of the Old-Chinese Merchants of Manila” by Wilson Lee Flores
- Second Prize: “Dislocation” by Danton R. Remoto
- Third Prize: “Don Jose Ma. Basa, the Untold Saga of an Illustrado Patriot” by Wilson Lee Flores; and “Gen. Macario Sakay and the Katagalugan Republic vs. the United States” by Wilson Lee Flores
One-Act Play
- First Prize: “Fiesta” by Bobby Flores Villasis
- Second Prize: “Wish Afternoon in A Slum” by Ametta Suarez Taguchi
- Third Prize: “In Transit” by Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.
Full-length Play
- First Prize: “Busman's Holiday” by Jessie B. Garcia
- Second Prize: “Song of the Sparrow” by Elsa M. Coscolluela
- Third Prize: “Cachil Kudarat (Sultan of Mindanao) or Cachil Corrala” by Mig Alvarez Enriquez
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