English Division
Novel
- Grand Prize Winner: Azucena Grajo Uranza, “Bamboo in the Wind"
Short Story
- Special Prizes
Charlson Ong, “A Tropical Winter's Tale”
Vicar Rosales, “Islas”
Isagani R. Cruz, “Once Upon A Time Some Years From Now”
Victorino Manalo, “The Hunting Season”
Isagani R. Cruz, “What I Did Last Summer”
Short Story for Children
- First Prize: Ramon Sunico, “Two Friends, One World”
- Second Prize: Alfred A. Yuson, “The Boy Who Ate the Stars”
- Third Prize: Jaime An Lim, “Yasmin”
Essay
- First Prize: Isagani R. Cruz, “The Other Other: Towards a Post Colonial Poetics”
- Second Prizes: Buenaventura S. Medina Jr., “The Conscious Unconscious”
- Eric Gamalinda, “The Unbearable Lightness of EDSA”
- Third Prize: No Winner
Poetry
- First Prize: Ricardo De Ungria, “Body English” and “Decimal Places”
- Second Prizes:
- Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., “Pinoy Septych and Other Poems”
- Jaime An Lim, “Trios”
- Fidelito Cortes, “Waitressing for the Exterminator”
- Third Prizes: Ma. Luisa A. Igloria, “Cartography”
- J. Neil C. Garcia, “Fish Wife and Other Poems”
- Lina Sagaral Reyes, “Istorya”
One-Act Play
- First Prize: No Winner
- Second Prize: No Winner
- Third Prize: Dean Francis Alfar, “Fragments of Memory”
Full-Length Play
- Honorable Mentions:
- Bobby Flores Villasis, “Eidolon”
- Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, “Retribution”
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