1948-1949
1st-"Guardia de Honor" by
Nick Joaquin (1 Oct. 1949)
2nd-"Death of Illusion" by Gonzalo
A. Villa (14 May 1949)
3rd-"The Money-Makers" by Nita
Umali (23 Jul. 1949)
1949-1950
1st-"A Voice in Rama" by
Gonzalo A. Villa (28 Oct. 1950)
2nd-"The Listening Sky" by Vicente
Rivera Jr. (1 Jul. 1950)
3rd-" Red Mountain " by Mario
P. Chanco (5 Nov. 1949)
1950-1951
1st-"Clay" by Juan T. Gatbonton
(31 Mar. 1951)
2nd-"Death of a House" by Mig Alvarez
Enriquez (26 May 1951)
3rd-"Uncle Syed" by Ibrahim A.
Jubaira (11 Nov. 1950)
1953-1954
1st-"A Wind Over the Earth" by
Gregorio C. Brillantes (9 Oct. 1954)
2nd-"Bottle Full of Smoke" by José Montebon
Jr. (2 Oct. 1954)
3rd-"The Search" by Vicente Rivera
Jr. (16 Oct. 1954)
1959-1960
1st-"The Day the Dancers Came" by
Bienvenido N. Santos (24 Sep. 1960)
2nd-"Faith, Time and Dr. Lazaro" by
Gregorio C. Brillantes (18 Jun. 1960)
3rd-"Kayumanggi, Mon Amour" by
Wilfrido D. Nolledo (9 Jul. 1960)
1961-1962
1st-"To Her Alone" by Leopoldo
N. Cacnio (7 Jul. 1962)
2nd-"The Mountain" by José V.
Ayala (25 Nov. 1961)
3rd-"Moon Under My Feet" by Wilfredo
Pascua Sanchez (26 May 1962)
1962-1963
1st-"The Last Caucus" by
Wilfrido D. Nolledo (26 Oct. 1963)
2nd-"A Record of My Passage" by Juan
T. Gatbonton (27 Apr. 1963)
3rd-"Southern Harvest" by Renato
E. Madrid (13 Apr. 1963)
1963-1964
1st-"Serenade" by N.V.M.
Gonzalez (24 Oct. 1964)
2nd-"Edge of Morning" by David V. Quemada
(5 Sep. 1964)
3rd-"Fable Time" by L. Pablo
Amansec (18 Jul. 1964)
1965-1966
1st-" Ireland " by Erwin
E. Castllo (17 Sep. 1966)
2nd-" Greenwich Standard Time" by Renato
E. Madrid (22 Oct. 1966)
3rd-" Island " by Resil B. Mojares
(21 May 1966)
1966-1967
1st-"In the Convent" by
Ninotchka Rosca (5 Nov. 1966)
2nd-"The Fairy Child" by Erwin E. Castillo
(30 Sep. 1967)
3rd-"The Demonstrator" by José A.
Quirino (19 Aug. 1967)
1967-1968
1st-"The Hill of Samuel" by
Alfred A. Yuson (16 Mar. 1968)
2nd-"Hello, Felisa" by Norma O. Miraflor
(20 Apr. 1968)
3rd-"The Adversary" by Luis V.
Teodoro Jr. (26 Oct. 1968)
1970-1971
1st-"Segkopoulos" by Federico
Licsi Espino Jr. (16 Oct. 1971)
2nd-"Resurrection" by Cirilo F. Bautista
(1971)
3rd-"Dear Brother Rick" by Raquel
C. Yapp (26 Aug. 1971)
1992
Fiction
1st-"Fixing a flat" by Charlson Ong
2nd-"No more M & Ms" by Diana Noche de la
Cruz
3rd-"Tausug Lamb" by Euly V. Eleazar
Hon-"White Linen" by Peter W. Lay and "Desert yuletide" by
Florito H. Culvera
Poetry
1st-"The sad art of making paper" by
Ramon C. Sunico
2nd-"Rim of fire" by Marjorie M. Evasco
3rd-"Muerte del angel" by Eric Gamalinda
Hon-"Postmodern paranoia" by J. Neil Carmelo Garcia and "Carts" by
Ricardo M. de Ungria
1992-1993
Fiction
1st-"Conversion" by Charlson Ong (12
Jun 1993)
2nd-"Homecoming" by Erma M. Cuizon (3 Apr 1993)
3rd-"Blood on the moon" by Mig Alvarez Enriquez
(23 Jan 1993)
Hon-"Delivery" by Jose Y. Dalisay
Jr. (13 Mar 1993)
Poetry
1st-"A detail of gravity" by Antonio
L. Jocson (15 May 1993)
2nd-"Ivatan" by Edgar B. Maranan (5 Jun 1993)
3rd-"Mass: Ode to the St. Thomas More chapel" by
Ricardo M. de Ungria (30 Oct 1993)
Hon-"Some women learn to read" by
Ramon C. sunico (19 Sep 1992)
1993-1994
Fiction
1st-"Folks, friends and foes" by Lina
Espina Moore (19 Feb 1994)
2nd-"Frames" by Maria Elena Paterno (30 Apr 1994)
3rd-"Tarang" by Gemino H. Abad (27 Aug 1994)
Hon-"Mens rea" by Lakambini A. Sitoy (8 Oct 1994) and "A
season of ten thousand noses" by Charlson Ong (15 Jan 1994)
Poetry
1st-"A fear of sound" by Ruel S. de
Vera (30 Apr 1994)
2nd-"Manet's Matador/Mooncussers by Eric Gamalinda
(7 May 1994)
3rd-"Franz" by Ricardo M. de Ungria (10
Sep 1994)
Hon-"Postcard from Persephone" by Ma. Luisa B. Aguilar-Cariño
(12 Mar 1994) and " Baguio , the Last Day" by Merlie M. Alunan
(15 Jan 1994)
Essay
1st-"The writers' sense of country" by
Arnold Molina Azurin (5 Mar 1994)
2nd-"Among dancers, jesters and nuns" by N.V.M.
Gonzales (11 Jun 1994)
3rd-"The writer's influence" by Leoncio
P. Deriada (19 Mar 1994)
1994-1995
Fiction
1st-"Menandro's boulevard" by Bobby
Flores-Villasis (5 Nov 1994)
2nd-"The lonely years of Gen. Francisco Solano" by
Edmund Coronel (15 Apr 1995)
3rd-"Billy Joe" by Fanny H.B. Llego (21
Jan 1995)
Hon-"Purification rites" by Fanny H.B. Llego (22 Apr 1995)
and "Hunting season" by Ino Manalo (29 Apr 1995)
Poetry
1st-"Legend of the seafoam" by J.
Neil C. Garcia (14 Oct 1995)
2nd-"The garden of earthly delights" by Ramon
C. Sunico (11 Feb 1995)
3rd-"Pushing sixty and hanging on" by Jaime
An Lim (18 Feb 1995)
Hon-"Letter to Amina who must surely be among the angels" by
Merlie M. Alunan (16 Sep 1995) and "Minotauromachia ( Madrid ,
1964) by Hilario S. Francia (30 Sep 1995)
Essay
1st-"The absent class" by Raul Pertierra
(8 Apr 1995)
2nd-"Eating 'Bantay'" by Frank Cimatu (19 Nov
1994)
3rd-"Diverse voices" by Arnold Molina Azurin
(24 Jun 1995)
Hon-"Winning by language" by N.V.M.
Gonzales (2 Sep 1995)
1995-1996
Fiction
1st-"Introibo" by Gémino H.
Abad (24 Feb 1996)
2nd-"Love" by Lorenzo Paran III (17 Feb 1996)
3rd-"Papa" by Alan D. Talampas (7 Dec 1996)
Hon-"The captive" by Twink Macaraig
(17 Aug 1996)
Poetry
1st-"Firstborn" by Ma. Luisa B. Aguilar-Carino
(19 Nov 1995) &
-"Katipunera" by Elsa Martinez Coscolluela (21
Sep 1996)
2nd-"Sutra in Laundrytime" by Amado Bajarias
(19 Oct 1996)
3rd-"Ang pag-ibig alinsunod sa Pakete ng Tide
Ultra" by Gilbert Roland M. Sape (4 Nov
1995)
Hon-"To the baby boy whose mother's breasts & nipples
are too small" by Zaldy Dandan (19 Oct 1996)
Essay
1st-"An ordinary day" by Gémino
H. Abad (24 Aug 1996)
2nd-"The hunt for the king's footprints" by Edmund
Coronel (21 Sep 1996)
3rd-"Mystery of the first mass" by Valentino
Sitoy Jr. (7 Sep 1996)
Hon-"The living goddess of Nepal " by
gigi Duenas de Beaupre (2 Dec 1995)
1997
Fiction
1st -- Marivi Soliven Blanco (Beaux
Café, 07/13/97)
2nd -- Caroline S. Hau (The True Story of Ah-to,
01/11/97)
3rd -- Carlos Cortes ( Stonehenge , 04/12/97)
HM -- Gémino H. Abad (The Garden
Swing, 02/01/97) and Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo (Fernando, 09/20/97)
Essay
1st -- Jonathan O. Temporal (Letter to Father David, 01/25/97)
2nd -- Sean V. Bigay (The Way of the Golden Light,
07/12/97)
3rd -- J. Neil C. Garcia (Villa Re(dis)covered,
08/02/97)
HM -- Dong Ampil de los Reyes (The Wilds of Mount Makiling,
05/24/97)
Poetry
1st -- Elsa Martinez Coscolluela (Camphor Chest, 02/08/97)
2nd -- Ma. Luisa A. Cariño (Your Hand
at My Side, 09/13/97)
3rd -- J. Neil C. Garcia (Legend of the Squash,
01/25/97)
HM -- Aida F. Santos (Mantakin Mo Naman, 05/17/97) and
Lourd Ernest de Veyra (The Monkey Poem, 03/01/97)
Judges: Javier J.L. Calero, José David
Lapuz, Jocelyn de Jesus, Ramil Digal Gulle, Danton Remoto
1998-1999
Fiction
1st -- Ramon Bautista (The Capture, 07/10/99)
2nd -- José L. Ayala (Life & Times
on Chicken Avenue , 04/25/99)
3rd -- Menchu Aquino Sarmiento (And the Angels
Sing, 05/08/99)
Judges: Ed Cabagnot, Jessica Zafra, Lito Zulueta
Essay
1st -- Jason Reyes (Me, 04/18/98)
2nd -- Sean V. Bigay (Power and Responsibility,
08/07/99)
3rd -- Arnold Molina Azurin (The Global Ethnic
Bonfires, 01/10/98)
Judges: Ed Cabagnot, Jessica Zafra, Lito Zulueta
Poetry
1st -- John Labella (Watershapes, 05/16/98)
2nd -- Allan C. Popa (Lifting, 07/24/99)
3rd -- José Perez Beduya (On Exclusion,
12/18/99)
Judges: Marjorie M. Evasco, Isabela Banzon
2000
Fiction
1st-Menchu Aquino Sarmiento (When
Ben was Ben)
2nd-"Caving" by Katharina R. Mendoza
3rd-"Breakup stories" by Lilledeshan Bose
Poetry
1st-"Lost photograph" by Luisa A.
Igloria
2nd-"A description" by Gemino H. Abad
3rd-"The occasional opera of things" by Mike
Maniquiz
Essay
1st-"Futureworld: polarization and cybercrime" by
Maria L.M. Fres-Felix
2nd-"Gruber" by Robert Gunnar Magnuson
3rd-"Of trash and troubles" by Sean V. Bigay
2001
Fiction
1st-"Gizzard Boy" by Menchu Aquino
Sarmiento
2nd-"Exiled" by Maria L.M. Fres-Felix
3rd-"Dragonseed" by Leoncio P. Deriada
Poetry
1st-"The Horde" by Lawrence Lacambra
Ypil
2nd-"Collapsing Space" by Sid Gomez Hildawa
3rd-"Small Deaths" by Arvin A. Mangohig
Essay
1st-"Unspeakable Evil" by Sean V.
Bigay
2002
Fiction
1st-"Good Husbands and Obedient Wives" by
Rosario Cruz Lucero
2nd-"Love in the First Quarter Storm" by Lilia
Ramos-de Leon
3rd-"Class Struggle" by Antonio Hidalgo
Essay
1st-"The Whore as Fiilipino Metaphor" by
Menchu Aquino Sarmiento
2nd-"The House of Spirits" by Danton Remoto
3rd-"Excavating Our Entomed Southeast Asian Womb" by
Arnold Molina Azurin
Poetry
1st-"Illumination of the O" by Franklin
V. Cimatu
2nd-"Sestina for My Father" by J. Neil C. Garcia
3rd-"In Finland " by Cesar Ruiz Aquino
2003
Fiction
1st-"The Oracle of the One-Eyed Coconut" by
Rosario Cruz Lucero
2nd-"Manananggal" by Irene Sarmiento
3rd -"Mirage" by Peter Mayshle
Poetry
1st-"What Some Are Saying About the Body" by
R. Zamora Linmark
2nd-"the last poem" by Elsa Coscolluela Martinez
3rd-"Mandorla" by Luisa Igloria
Essay
2nd-" South Road " by Patricia Andrade
3rd-"Dining with Doreen" by Jonathan Chua
2004
Fiction
1st-"Elegies from Another Book" by
Bobby Flores-Villasis
2nd-"Higher Orders" by John Bengan
3rd-"The Heart of Summer" by Danton Remoto
Poetry
2nd-"Malchus at Gethsemane " by Sid
Gomez Hildawa
3rd-"Fat Elvis in Kamias" by Lourd Ernest de
Veyra
