2003 Palanca Awards
The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 2003 (rank, name of author, title of winning entry):
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: Wilfredo Pascual Jr., "Devotion"
- Second Prize: Erwin Romulo, "Confessions of a Space Boy"
- Third Prize: Jose Maria Alarilla, "Surviving the Zeroes"
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"
Filipino Division
Tula
- First Prize: Alwynn C. Javier, "Ang Magneto sa Gitna ng Aking Daigdig"
- Second Prize: Raymund Magno Garlitos, "Nostos at Iba Pang Awit ng Pagtubos"
- Third Prize: Jing Castro Panganiban, "Ilang Pagsasanay sa Pangungulila"
Maikling Kwento
- First Prize: Reynaldo Duque, "Apong Simon"
- Second Prize: Alvin Yapan, "Bomba"
- Third Prize: Abdon Balde Jr., "Supay"
Futuristic Fiction
- First Prize: Ricardo Fernando III, "Bagong Developments Sa Pagbuo Ng Mito Sa Lungsod"
- Second Prize: Edgar Samar, "Project: Eyod"
- Third Prize: Alvin Yapan, "Nostalgia"
Maikling Kwentong Pambata
- First Prize: Renato Vibiesca, "Tahooieyy!"
- Second Prize: Mae Astrid Tobias, "Bayong ng Kuting"
- Third Prize: Alice Mallari, "Hayan Na Si Lolo Sinto"
Sanaysay
- First Prize: Niles Jordan Breis, "Kung Tawagin Sila’y Angela Buruka: Sa Alaala ni Angela Manalang-Gloria"
- Second Prize: Mjolnir Xoce Ong, "Adventures sa Kawatanan ng Rentas Internas"
- Third Prize: John Iremil Teodoro, "Maikling Talambuhay ng Isang Makatang Ipinaglihi sa Paa ng Manok at Sirena"
Dulang May Isang Yugto
- First Prize: Maria Kristine Chynna Rojas, "Traje De Boda"
- Second Prize: Christian Vallez, "Twenty Questions"
- Third Prize: Nathaniel Joseph de Mesa, "I Laugh You"
Dulang Ganap Ang Haba
- First Prize: No winner
- Second Prize: No winner
- Third Prize: Mari Jina Endaya, "Trese: Isang Panayam"
Dulang Pantelebisyon
- First Prize: Lazaro Torres Jr., "Kasama Sa Bahay"
- Second Prize: Rolando Salvana, "Ang Buhay Kong Duling"
- Third Prize: Nita Eden So, "Ay Em Nene"
Dulang Pampelikula
- First Prize: Jose Maria Manalo, "Mangha"
- Second Prize: Rica Leticia Arevalo, "ICU Bed #7"
- Third Prize: Norman Wilwayco, "Kung Paano Kong Inayos ang Buhok Ko Matapos ang Mahaba-haba Ring Paglalakbay"
Regional Language Division
Short Story in Cebuano
- First Prize: Mario Batusa, "Pagbugto Sa Kataposang Higot"
- Second Prize: Lamberto Ceballos, "Tinggutom Sa Nayawak"
- Third Prize: Arnel Mardoquio, "Tikbalangkapre"
Short Story in Hiligaynon
- First Prize: Alice Tan Gonzales, "Esperanza"
- Second Prize: Lester Mark Carnaje, "Haligi Nga Asin"
- Third Prize: Isabel Sebullen, "Mga Misteryo Sa Kagulangan"
Short Story in Iloko
- First Prize: Reynaldo A. Duque, "Leon, 15"
- Second Prize: Ariel S. Tabag, "Sudario"
- Third Prize:earvin bendillo,torpe
Kabataan Division
Essay
- First Prize: Cristina Monica Buensalido, "Learning To Fly"
- Second Prize: Florianne Marie Jimenez, "Why I Am Who I Am"
- Third Prize: Enrico Miguel Subido, "Contemplating the Concept of Sanctuary"
Sanaysay
- No winners