2008 Palanca Awards - English Division

English Division

Full-Length Play

• First prize: Peter Solis Nery (The Passion of Jovita Fuentes)
• Second prize: No winner
• Third prize: No winner

One-Act Play

• First prize: Maria Clarissa N. Estuar (Anybody’s Revolution)
• Second prize: Percival Intalan (Secret Identities)
• Third prize: Joachim Emilio B. Antonio (Newspaper Dance)

Poetry

• First prize: Francis C. Macansantos (Morphic Variations)
• Second prize: Anna Maria Katigbak (Sl(e)ights)
• Third prize: Marie La Viña (The Gospel According to the Blind Man)

Short Story

• First prize: Ian Fermin Rosales Casocot (Things You Don’t Know)
• Second prize: Tara F.T. Sering (Good People)
• Third prize: Nadine L. Sarreal (Night Sounds)

Short Story For Children

• First prize: Celestine Marie G. Trinidad (The Storyteller and the Giant)
• Second prize: No winner
• Third prize: Kathleen Aton-Osias (The Mapangarap and the Dream Trees)

Essay

• First prize: Jose Claudio B. Guerrero (Talking to a Fu Dog on a Wedding Afternoon)
• Second prize: Katrina Stuart Santiago (Mirrors)
• Third prize: Jhoanna Lynn Cruz (Sapay Coma)

Kabataan Essay

• First prize: Miro Frances Dimaano Capili (Rated X)
• Second prize: Cristina Gratia F. Tantengco (Things that Lie Beyond the Postcards)
• Third prize: Elfermin Manalansan Mallari, Jr. (The Roads and Dreams that Meander)

Novel

• Grand prize winner – Miguel Syjuco (Ilustrado)