The second half of the 60s reaches midpoint in 1968. Looking back at the output since 1965 might help us see where Philippine writing seems to be going. The decade between 1955 and 1965 saw intensive literary activity which resulted in the development of the novel in English and the rise of new writing in Pilipino. During the past two years, English writing has been dominated by the same literary figures who made the years after the Pacific War an exciting period. Nick Joaquin turned out two stories, “Candido’s Apocalypse” (1965) and “The Order of Melkizedex” (1966). Bienvenido N. Santos collected some of his prose works in “The Day The Dancers Came” (1967). N. V. M. Gonzalez is out of the country at present finishing his third novel. In fiction Gregorio Brilliantes’s “The Fires of the Sun, etc.” was awarded first prize in the Palanca contest in 1967. Edith L. Tiempo won the top prize for poetry with her volume “The Tracks Of Babylon And Other Poems” (1967). Winner of the same award the previous year was Emmanuel Torres’s “Angels And Fugitives” (1966).