2003 Palanca Awards - English Division

English Division

Poetry

• First Prize: Isidoro Cruz, "Bodies Of Water"
• Second Prize: Angelo Suarez, "Exploratoria"
• Third Prize: Mike Maniquiz, "Tornadoes and Other Poems"

Short Story

• First Prize: Asterio Enrico Gutierrez, "Blind"
• Second Prize: Socorro Villanueva, "Foggy Makes Me Sad"
• Third Prize: Paul de Guzman, "The index of Forbidden Books"

Futuristic Fiction

• First Prize: No winner
• Second Prize: No winner
• Third Prize: Yvette Natalia Uy Tan, "Sidhi"

Short Story for Children

• First Prize: Honoel A. Ibardolaza, "The Greediest of Rajahs and the Whitest of Clouds"
• Second Prize: Cyan Abad-Jugo, "Behind The Old Aparador"
• Third Prize: Yvette Natalie Uy Tan, "Kulog"

Essay

• First Prize: Rosario Cruz Lucero, "The Music Of Pestle-On-Mortar"
• Second Prize: Lourd Ernest de Veyra, "Videoke Blues"
• Third Prize: Xerxes Matza, "Licking Lollies: The Re-education of the Accidental American"

One-Act Play

• First Prize: No winner.
• Second Prize: Dean Francis Alfar, "The Onan Circle"
• Third Prize: Glenn Sevilla Mas, "The Birth Of Light"

Full-Length Play

• First Prize: No winner.
• Second Prize: Floy Quintos, "Fluid"
• Third Prize: Frank Rivera, "The Adventures of Pilandok"