Pinoy Readers' Choice Awards 2007

Read or Die is proud to host the first ever Pinoy Readers' Choice Awards. The Awards are designed both to profile the works of our local authors as well as to encourage active and critical engagement on the part of the reading public with contemporary Philippine literature.
 
There are FOUR (4) award categories:
 
Fiction
 
Non-Fiction
 
Young Adults Literature
 
Poetry
 
Each category will contain a short-list of up to four entries. Short-lists will be decided by popular nomination.
 

Nomination Guidelines
 

• Only full-length books of general fiction, non-fiction and poetry are eligible for nomination. Collections of short stories and collections of essays by an author are eligible. Collected and selected poems by an author are eligible.
• All nominated authors must be Filipino citizens.
• Nominated authors must be living at the commencement of the awards.
• Nominated books may either be in English or in Filipino.
• Books translated from other Filipino languages into English or Filipino are eligibile for nomination.
• Comic books and graphic novels are eligible for nomination.
• Anthologies containing work written by multiple authors are not eligible.

Shortlists (2007)
 
Best Fiction
 
"Bata, Bata, Paano Ka Ginawa?" by Lualhati Bautista

"Ermita" by F. Sionil Jose

"Salamanca" by Dean Alfar

"Smaller and Smaller Circles" by F.H. Batacan
 
Best Non-Fiction
 
"ABNKKBSANPLAKo?" by Bob Ong

"Public Lives: Essays In Selfhood and Social Solidarity" by Randy David

"Rizal Without The Overcoat" by Ambeth Ocampo

"Twisted" (Volume 1) by Jessica Zafra
 
Best Poetry
 
"Dust Devils" by Virgilio Almario

"Hunos" by Allan Popa

"Minatamis at Iba Pang Mga Tula ng Pag-ibig" by Joi Barrios

"Sunlight on Broken Stones" by Cirilo Bautista
 
Best Komiks
 
"After Eden" by Arnold Arre

"Pugad Baboy" (Volume 1) by Pol Medina

"Wasted" by Gerry Alanguilan

"ZsaZsa Zaturnah" by Carlo Vergara

 
 
Voting
 
The winners of the Readers' Choice Awards will be decided by popular vote. Readers may vote more than once.
 
Voting will start on November 17, 2006 and will end on January 31, 2007.
 
Readers may vote through our online poll.

Winners will be announced on February 4, 2007 during the closing of RodCon 2007.