2006 Palanca Awards - English Division

English Division

Short story

• First Prize: Mahogany Water by Socorro Villanueva
• Second Prize: Sink or Swim by Myrza Sison
• Third Prize: Trips by Ma. Celeste Flores-Coscolluela

Futuristic fiction

• First Prize: No winner
• Second Prize: Suman by Corinna Esperanza A. Nuqui
• Third Prize: A Monumental Race by Arturo Ilano

Short story for children

• First Prize: Cut by Ma. Celeste Flores-Coscolluela
• Second Prize: Big Brother by Grace Dacanay Chong
• Third Prize: How Rosang Taba Won a Race by Dean Francis Alfar

Poetry

• First Prize: The Highest Hiding Place by Lawrence L. Ypil
• Second Prize: Building a House, and other Poems by Sid G. Hildawa
• Third Prize: Illuminations and Sonorities by Raymundo T. Pandan Jr.

Essay

• First Prize: Fungibility, Dead Souls and OCWs by Jose Edmundo O. Reyes
• Second Prize: Hometown Stories and Footnotes to Childhood’s End by Edgardo B. Maranan
• Third Prize: He’d Rather be Relevant by Martin V. Villanueva

One-Act Play

• First Prize: Ming Ming by Steven Prince C. Fernandez
• Second Prize: Gabrielle by Joachim Emilio B. Antonio
• Third Prize: Life After Beth by Nikki Alfar

Full-length Play

• First Prize: The Death of Memory by Glenn S. Mas
• Second Prize: Chinchina and the Five Mountains by Amelia L. Bonifacio
• Third Prize: Ask Me Again When I’m Thirty by Maria Clarissa Estuar