Kaisa Ini sa Sining, Lunsay nga Artistang Pilipino (KSSLAP) Awards 2020, given by the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

RECIPIENT

Best Anthology in English (for Bamboo Girls: Stories and Poems From a Forgotten Life), 2019 National Book Awards, sponsored by the National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle.

FINALIST

Subaybaktas: Literary History Writing Workshop, 18-20 June 2015. Sponsored by the University of San Carlos Cebuano Studies Center and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

FELLOW

Second Prize for the Short Story in English (for “It Always Breaks My Heart a Little to See You Go”), 62nd Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2012.

WINNER

International Writing Program (IWP), University of Iowa. 29 August—16 November 2010. Grant given by the U.S. State Department.

WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE

First Prize for the Short Story in English (for “Things You Don’t Know”), 58th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2008.

WINNER

For the novel “Sugar Land,” 2nd Man Asian Literary Prize, 2008. Sponsored by Hong Kong International Literary Festival Limited with financial support from Man Group plc, and administered by representatives from the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

LONGLIST HONORS

47th UP National Writers Workshop, 2008. Sponsored by the Likhaan: University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing

FELLOW FOR FICTION

The Second Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards 2007 Second Prize for Prose (for “The Sugilanon of Epefania’s Heartbreak”). Sponsored by Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman.

WINNER

Third Prize for the Short Story for Children in English (for “The Last Days of Magic”), 57th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2007.

WINNER

The First Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards 2006 for Prose (for “A Strange Map of Time”). Sponsored by Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

PBBY-Salanga Writers Prize 2005 (for “Rosario and the Stories”). Sponsored by the Philippine Board of Books for Young Readers.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

NVM Gonzalez Awards 2005 (for “A Joy of Chickens”). Sponsored by the NVM Gonzalez Foundation and the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing.

FINALIST

Philippines Free Press Literary Awards 2005 (Best Short Story for “The Players”). Sponsored by the Philippines Free Press.

FINALIST

The NVM Gonzalez Awards 2003, Special Prize (for “The Hero of the Snore Tango”). Sponsored by the NVM Gonzalez Foundation.

WINNER

Hamiling Bayawanon Award for the Literary Arts, 2003. Bayawan City 2003 Charter Day Anniversary Celebrations.

AWARDEE

Best Entertainment Column (for “The Spy in the Sandwich” in the Visayan Daily Star), Catholic Mass Media Awards, 2003.

FINALIST

Best Anthology (for FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures), National Book Awards 2003. Sponsored by the Manila Critics Circle.

FINALIST

Second Prize for the Short Story in English (for “The Hero of the Snore Tango”), 53rd Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2003.

WINNER

UBOD New Writers Series 2003. Sponsored by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts.

GRANTEE

Second Prize for the Short Story in English (for “Old Movies”), 52nd Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2002.

WINNER

39th Silliman University National Writers’ Workshop , 2000.

FELLOW FOR FICTION