SU writer wins Palanca award

Ian Rosales Casocot (Photo from the SU National Writers Workshop Facebook page)

Sillimanian writer Ian Rosales Casocot won first prize in the 2022 Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature under the Short Story in English category, his sixth Palanca award to date.

Casocot received the award for his short story, titled “Ceferina in Apartment 2G.”

Casocot first won a Palanca award in 2002, earning a second prize for his short story, “Old Movies.” He won another second prize in the Palanca Award in 2003 for his short story, “The Hero of the Snore Tango”; the third prize in 2007 for his children’s short story, “The Last Days of Magic”; the first prize in 2008 for his short story, “Things You Don’t Know”; and the second prize in 2012 for his short story, “It always breaks my heart a little to see you go.”

Casocot taught literature, creative writing, and film at SU. He served as the Edilberto and Edith Tiempo Creative Writing Center coordinator and festival director of the Silliman Film Open, and was a resident panelist of the SU National Writers Workshop.

Casocot graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Mass Communication degree and a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from SU.

Casocot won other awards such as the NVM Gonzalez Prize, an Honorable Mention from the 2006 PBBY-Salanga Writer’s Prize, and the Fully-Booked/Neil Gaiman Philippine
Graphic/Fiction Awards. He was longlisted in the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel “Sugar Land.” In 2017, he was selected as a member of the National Committee on Cinema of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

The 70th Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature will have an awarding ceremony on November 30, 2022.