Winning Works
A collection of literary pieces recognized by the Palanca Awards across its various divisions and categories, celebrating outstanding works in Philippine literature.
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Three Kisses
First prize
Waiting for Rain
Second prize
Café Masala
Third prize
The Big Man
Third prize
Disappearances
Second prize
Prodigal
Third prize
In Transit
First prize
It Always Breaks My Heart A Little To See You Go
Second prize
Bright Lights
Third prize
Armor
First prize
Krystal Hut
Second prize
Ren
Third prize
The Auroras
First prize
Zurbaran
Second prize
Eye Candy
Third prize
Phallic Symbols
First prize
The Backroom Angels Buggaloo
Second prize
The Storyteller
Third prize
Zoetrope
First prize
Sundays at the Cardozas’
Second prize
Things That Matter
Third prize
Disguise
First prize
Misericordia
Second prize
Don’t Blink
Third prize
Describe the Rapture
First prize
Pigs
Second prize
The Final Bullet
Third prize
James Machine
First prize
Death for Serafina
Second prize
Neon Blindness
Third prize
Ceferina in Apartment 2G
First prize
Ardor
Second prize
The Money Changer
Third prize
Vile Creatures
First prize
Don’t follow me, I don’t even know where I’m going
Second prize
Amadito and Amanda
Third prize
Muted City
First prize
The Man Who Sold Dignity
Second prize
Bee Happy
Third prize
Goat
First prize
Golgotha
Second prize
Milked for Milk
Third prize
Tabon Girl
First prize
Little Bear Goes Home: A Love Story
Second prize
I am an Apple
Third prize
Tom Yum
First prize
Tatay, Through Wind and Waves
Second prize
Gagamba, the Spider from the Islands
Third prize
The White Shoes
First prize
Lauan, The Seed That Wanted To Fly
Second prize
Mister World and His Magical Box
Third prize
Marvino’s League of Superheroes
First prize
The Magic Bahag
Second prize
A Thousand Paper Cranes
Third prize
Hiro the Rooster and Basha the Hen
First prize
Three Good Things
Second prize
The Ragpicker’s Son
Third prize
The Bear
Second prize
The Three Questions of Tarongoy
Third prize
Saranggola
Third prize
I have Two Mothers
Third prize
Pretty Peach and the Color-matching Kaleidoscope
First prize
Hair
Second prize
The Accidental Adventure of Bubalus Bubalis
Third prize
Cloud Keeper
Second prize
My Grandma who lives in Half a House
Third prize
The legend of ipot-ipot
Second prize
The Race to Uswag
Third prize
Captain Crayon and the Doodle Pirates
First prize
That’s What I Said
Second prize
Kapid
Third prize
Vinyl
First prize
Postcards from Somewhere
Second prize
Library
Third prize
The Turn for Home: Memories of Santa Ana Park
First prize
The River of Gold
Second prize
The Stain of Blackberries
Third prize
Of Legends
First prize
Dao
Second prize
Patterns
Third prize
The Krakauer Table
First prize
Under My Invisible Umbrella
Second prize
Voices from the Village
Third prize
The Salt Price
First prize
Insert Her Silence Here
Second prize
When One if thefourth of Ten
Third prize
Symphony of Dry Winds in a Time Without Rain
First prize
Violence, a Biography
Second prize
The Bangkok Masseur
Third prize
A View from Masada
First prize
Circle
Second prize
Lip Reading
Third prize
In My Father’s Kitchen
First prize
The Art of Hugot in our Republic of Sawi
Second prize
A Portrait of a Young Man as a Banak
Third prize
Buhay pa kami: Dispatches from Marawi
First prize
Some Days You Can’t Save Them All
Second prize
